| First, Integrate the Apps Linking enterprise applications -- CRM, ERP, SCM -- is the source of real competitive advantage for today's extended enterprises, and achieving this integration should top the management agenda. Build the infrastructure right, and everything will fall into place. First, Get People Talking Bringing knowledge workers together in effective collaborative relationships is key to corporate advantage. Issues like trust and commitment will trump technology every time. | "Collaboration is a lot like world peace: everyone says it would be great, but few seem to offer concrete guidance on how to get there." -- Stowe Boyd, Guest Editor Opening Statement The Collaborative Enterprise: First Principles of Success in the Relationship Economy Kindling Collaboration: Establishing the Conditions for Collaborative Success Knowledge Is the Glue: Achieving Effective Collaboration Through Trust-Based Relationships A Nonzero-Sum Game: Collaborative Software Development at Quovix B2B Collaboration: Don't Forget the Data | |
| Next Issue Confronting Complexity: Software Reliability in a Complicated Age Guest Editor: Don Estes Scientifically thorough testing is prohibitively expensive for complex products like software. As a result, software testing is always a compromise between theoretically perfect and "it didn't blow up, so ship it." In the next issue of Cutter IT Journal, we'll debate how we can make software more reliable without breaking the bank. How much testing is "enough" when software is increasingly critical to so many products and services? Is testing really just an exercise in risk management? Join us next month for the first of two issues on this vital topic. Remember: what you don't know about software testing can kill you. | ||
No man is an island, and an increasing number of companies are realizing that they can't be either. Over the past two years, many organizations have begun to build on their supply chain integration efforts to create collaborative structures that engage business partners, suppliers, customers, and even competitors. Data, skill sets, and processes that were once closely guarded are coming to be shared by these collaborative communities in order to optimize supply chain operations, speed product development, and lower costs. But while its advocates argue that collaboration is the only path to managing complex, interrelated industries, naysayers counter that the payoff doesn't justify the investments needed in complex, n-tier extended enterprises. Join us as we debate the challenges and opportunities presented by B2B collaboration.
