Leadership is a necessary -- and critical -- quality in the IT domain as well as in other business arenas. IT people, however, tend to enter the field primarily as technologists and often attain leadership positions without recognizing the qualities that are essential to be a successful leader. In this issue of CBR , Cutter Consortium Senior Consultants David Caruso and Kerry Gentry address the meaning of leadership and how to identify and cultivate those IT professionals who possess leadership qualities.
April 2005
March 2005
BPM Is Strategic, So CIOs Must Be Strategic In this issue:- Cutter IT Journal: Business Performance Management: Have We Gotten Anywhere?
- Business Performance Management: Have We Gotten Anywhere? -- Opening Statement
- Are We There Yet? Three Challenges for BPM
- BPrM: The CIO's Ticket Back to the Corporate Mainstream
- All Together Now: Merging IT Quality and Other BPM Frameworks
- I Can See Clearly Now: BPM and Data Visualization
- The Security Management Triple Play: Protection, Detection, and Visualization for SOX Compliance
- BPM: Out of the Darkness and Into the Light
March 2005
The ability to use and have command of metrics are essential skills for the agile IT executive. In this issue of CBR , Cutter Consortium Senior Consultant Michael Mah provides a look at the emerging discipline of metrics and benchmarking and then frames the discussion in terms of using reliable information to make high-stakes decisions.
February 2005
Business performance management has generated considerable interest among organizations worldwide. Is it just the latest IT buzzword destined to die out in a few months, or is it here to stay? In this issue of Cutter Benchmark Review, Cutter Consortium Senior Consultant Curt Hall presents the results of a recent study on the acceptance and benefits of BPM, predicting that the adoption of BPM practices will enjoy steady but moderate growth through the end of this year.
February 2005
Collaboration MIA
Somewhere between the espoused value of teamwork, the team-based structures, and the work itself, the collaborative context — and supporting mindsets and skills — seems to be lost.
Teamwork Lives!In this issue:- Cutter IT Journal: The Elusive Quest for Collaboration and Teamwork
- The Elusive Quest for Collaboration and Teamwork: Opening Statement
- Necessary but Not Sufficient: The Role of Expertise in Technical Team Success
- Corralling the Cowboy Coder
- Patterns for Collaboration
- Teamwork in Agile and Plan-Based Companies
- How to Design Your Organization to Improve Team Performance
- In Their Own Words: Agile IT Leadership and Teamwork at DTE Energy