Cutter Consortium Senior Consultant Steve Andriole explores how the relationship between business and technology is changing and how the new relationship is transforming the way we innovate, the way we organize, and the way we solve specific problems in vertical industries. The special issue looks at the major drivers of the change and some macro trends. Join us as our expert authors show how business and technology are converging toward a seamless partnership.
April 2004
In this issue:- The Business-IT Relationship: Opening Statement
- Repairing the Business-IT Relationship
- Farming Innovation to Transform Your Business -- and the Business-IT Relationship
- The New Coke Paradigm: IT and the Bottom Line
- Looking at IT Through New Eyes
- Business-Technology Transformation Trends: Where's IT All Going?
April 2004
Over the past decade, pretty much anyone who has used the Internet has also used portals. Portals have become familiar; we know what they are, what they do, and how to use them. But as corporate IT applications, they have suffered from an identity crisis. It's not the fault of the portals or of portal vendors. The problem lies with us -- the current and prospective users of corporate portals -- and it boils down to this: we don't know what we want portals to be.
In this issue:- Enterprise Information Portals: Resolving the Identity Crisis
- Corporate Adoption of Enterprise Information Portals: Part I
- Corporate Adoption of EIPs: Part II -- Application Trends
- Corporate Adoption of EIPs: Part III -- Success and Benefits
- Corporate Adoption of EIPs: Part IV -- Use of Portal Products
- The Power of Portals in Collaborative Environments
March 2004
This month's CBR is the second half of our close look at project management. In the February issue (Part I), we focused on the "hard" factors that play into project success or failure (methods, tools, etc.). Now in Part II, we turn to the intangible, elusive, and extremely important "soft" factors. Leadership and interpersonal communication skills, levels of morale and training, and that ultimate intangible -- trust -- are usually presumed to matter greatly in managing projects.
March 2004
Vol. 17, No. 3, March 2004 In this issue:- Cutter IT Journal: March 2004: Killing IT Projects: Part II
- Opening Statement
- Failing Successfully
- Terminating Failing IT Projects: An IT Portfolio Management Approach
- "Is Your Project Cheating on You?": The Project Probability of Success Indicator
- When Dr. Kevorkian Makes a House Call
- Doomed from the Start: What Everyone but Senior Management Seems to Know
February 2004
This month, CBR begins a two-part series on a subject of great importance in IT management: the management of projects. This month, we'll focus on methods, models, and practices -- the "hard" stuff. Next month, we'll turn to the "soft" stuff -- staffing, morale, team management, and relationship management. If you are a longtime reader of CBR , you'll recall that we dealt with project management two years ago, and you'll recognize Cutter Consortium Fellow Robert Charette's "husbandry" approach to the subject.
In this issue:- Project Management: Part I -- Methods, Models, and Practices
- Project Management Husbandry Redux: Part I
- Project Management Husbandry Redux: Part II
- Ten Cheap Actions to Improve Your IT Performance
- Improving ROI by Valuing Features
- Radical Requirements
- February 2004 Cutter Benchmark Review: Coaching and Team Building