Welcome to the eighth annual IT budget issue of Cutter Benchmark Review. In each installment, CBR gathers and analyzes fresh data to understand both the state of IT budgeting in the current year and the emerging trends that can be seen by looking at the changes taking place (or not taking place) between years.
April 2013
April 2013
"In Lean, value -- not resource utilization -- is the key driver of work."
-- Jim Sutton, Guest Editor
In this issue:- Is Lean the Path to Releasing the Competitive Business Potential in Knowledge Work? -- Opening Statement
- Lean Thinking and Knowledge Work
- Dissolving a Dangerous Enthusiasm: Taking a Systems Approach to IT Systems
- Cooks in a Messy Kitchen
- The Lean Systems Framework: Extending Lean for Knowledge Work
- Implementing Organization-Wide Gemba Using Noninvasive Process Mining
- Strategy Formulation for Lean Environments
March 2013
"Cloud service providers, the IT industry, professional and industry associations, governments, and IT professionals all have a role to play in shaping, fostering, and harnessing the full potential of the emerging cloud ecosystem."
-- San Murugesan, Guest Editor
In this issue:- The Emerging Cloud Ecosystem: Innovative New Services and Business Models
- Merging IaaS with PaaS to Deliver Robust Development Tools
- Intrusion Detection as a Service (IDaaS) in an Open Source Cloud Infrastructure
- Cloud Ecology: Surviving in the Jungle
- The Promise of a Diverse, Interoperable Cloud Ecosystem -- And Recommendations for Realizing It
March 2013
"This issue of CBR just works. First, we have a fresh set of data, made more useful by the fact that we can compare it historically to a previous survey. Second, we have a solid 'bird's eye' view of the DDS space through the high-level conceptual framework articulated by Federico and Gabe. And, third, we have a very pragmatic 'nuts and bolts' view of the same space from Manjunath."
-- Joseph Feller, Editor
In this issue:- Another Look at Real-Time Data: Opportunities, Challenges, and Readiness — Opening Statement
- Are You Ready to Profit ... From Real-Time Digital Data Streams?
- Value Creation Using Real-Time Digital Data Streams: Challenges and Readiness
- Getting Ready to Manage Data In-Flight
- Real-Time Digital Data Streams Survey Data
February 2013
From time to time, the corpus of information technologies absorbs new classes of technology, often in one fell swoop. The collection of technologies discussed here -- social, mobile, analytics, and cloud (SMAC) -- represents such a bundle. A decade ago, social, mobile, and cloud technologies were more a gleam in the eye of innovators than part of the CIO repertoire. Back then, analytics were frozen in a period of glacial change that was moving far too slow to attract much attention except from analysts trying to divine which bigger vendor was going to buy which smaller vendor. Today, social, mobile, analytics, and cloud are the cornerstone technologies driving innovation inside many if not most enterprises. In this issue of Cutter IT Journal, we bring together five articles with some different looks at the opportunities and challenges SMAC poses.
In this issue:- SMAC: Social, Mobile, Analytics, and Cloud
- Leveraging Social Science to Boost Adoption of SMAC Technologies
- Challenging CIOs to Drive Front-Office Transformation
- Is SMAC Adding Business Value or More Complexity and Uncertainty?
- How Can an API Platform Support the Integration of SMAC?
- Gamification: Driving Behavior Change in the Connected World