It’s the year 2020. The popularized notion of “Agile development” has now been around for the better part of at least two decades. To no one’s surprise, the concept of Agile has sprung new trunks, branches, twigs, and leaves and is now an entire genus, sometimes making the proto-Agile ideas unrecognizable. These new flavors, colors, and shapes can be described as evolutions of the original concepts. Or can they?
April 2020
In this issue:- Disrupting Agile: Is Agile Ready? — Opening Statement
- The Speed of Trust: Why Some Agile Teams Succeed and Others Do Not
- Fit-for-Purpose Agility: There Is No “One True Agile”
- Evolving Business Agility Through Directional Selection
- The Chicken or the Egg … Who Goes FIRST in Agility?
- Don’t Disrupt Agile. Drop It.
April 2020
While often neglected, initiatives aimed at improving the employee experience can have an immediate and positive impact on customer satisfaction and, ultimately, the bottom line. Customer experiences do not just happen; they are the direct results of activities by the employees with whom customers come in contact. The articles in this issue of CBTJ will challenge you to think differently about how you engage your employees.
In this issue:- Want Happy Customers? Make Your Employees Happy — Opening Statement
- Lacking and Longing in the Workplace: What Undermines Employee Happiness?
- Sustainable Happiness in a VUCA World: The Human Experience Above and Beyond Corporate Limits
- The Workplace Culture You Want
- Want to Improve Employee Engagement? Remove the Boss!
March 2020
Today, every company needs to become digital, but what this entails will differ depending on industry, company size, and competitive landscape. Focusing on the right aspects of the digital shift — and getting the balancing act right between maintaining productivity and accelerating change — is vital if a company is to thrive rather than fall by the wayside. This issue of CBTJ will help you navigate what could be the most important journey your business will ever take.
February 2020
With all that is new and changing before our eyes, we asked the Cutter Consortium team of experts to weigh in on the technologies, strategies, and business models that will have the most relevance this year and beyond. Their responses — delivered in this issue of Cutter Business Technology Journal — range from the need for more technology regulation to what technologies will be most transformative, from guidelines for keeping our data safe to minimizing the profusion of misinformation.
In this issue:- 2020 Trends and Predictions — Opening Statement
- US Regulators Will Again Fail Technology in 2020
- Leveraging Business Architecture: 3 Predictions Pointing to New Relevance and Leadership
- Cybersecurity in 2020
- Trustworthiness: A Mouthful That Shouldn’t Leave a Bad Taste
- Autonomous Systems Are Rising; Seize the Opportunities!
- AI and Natural Language 2020: New Regulations and New Developments
- 2020: The Year That Agile Gets Found Out
- Trends Shaping Drone Adoption for 2020 and Beyond
- Learn to Succeed with Digital Transformation
January 2020
This issue of CBTJ will help you understand that a data architecture should be much more than merely a technology roadmap. To be of any value to people in an organization, the architecture should guide the people in an organization to an understanding of how to organize for ever-changing information requirements.
In this issue:- Data Architecture Is Really About People — Opening Statement
- Personal and Organizational Context for Digital Business Decisions
- A Logical Information Architecture That Works for All Your Vs
- Closing the Business-IT Gap with a Model-Driven Architecture
- Practical Enterprise Data Architecture for the Digital Era