By allowing an organization to analyze and visualize the entire business and apply business blueprints to both strategic transformation initiatives and ongoing business challenges, business architecture becomes an enabler of critical business strategies. This issue of Cutter IT Journal brings these factors to light through five articles by business architecture practitioners. These articles discuss business architecture in the context of strategic planning, requirements analysis, holistic business analysis, strategic transformation, and organizational transformation.
November 2011
In this issue:- Business Architecture in Practice: Lessons from the Trenches -- Opening Statement
- The Town Planners of Enterprise Innovation
- Effective Customer Requirements Definition Using Business Architecture
- The Tale of Two BAs: Why Business Architecture Is the Business Analysis Practice’s Best Friend
- A Capability-Based Approach to Strategic Transformational Initiatives
- Creating a New Multidisciplinary Cancer Center Using Business Architecture
October 2011
An External Threat
Disruption comes from the outside, from the entrepreneur in the garage or the startup with a new idea. We don’t know where it’s coming from or what it’ll look like — we just know it’s coming. CIOs need to constantly scan the horizon for the Next Next Thing.
In this issue:- Creative Destruction: How to Keep from Being Technologically Disrupted
- Disrupt This! The (Mostly) Good, the (Occasionally) Bad, and the (Always) Inevitable
- Disrupting the Disruptors: Three Design Patterns for Combatting Disruption in Incumbent Organizations
- Technology Disruption in Service Industries
- Cloud Y
- Disruptive Technology in the Real World: The Cloud Computing Example
September 2011
End of an Era
Dramatic changes in organization, technology, and outsourcing signal limited career potential for 21st-century IT professionals.
A New Day
High business expectations and a new demographic mixture signal a world of opportunity for 21st-century IT professionals.
In this issue:- 21st-Century IT Personnel: Tooling Up or Tooling Down?
- Versatility and Innovation: The Keys for Survival of 21st-Century IT Personnel
- Cultivating Millennials and Harvesting the Value They Produce
- Force of Habit: Seven Essentials for 21st-Century IT Professionals
- The Mindset of a Successful IT Professional
- Multiskilling or Specialization: The Dilemma of a 21st-Century Info Worker
August 2011
In this issue:August 2011
According to Guest Editor Patrick DeBois, "Only by providing positive results to the business and management can IT reverse its bad reputation and become a reliable partner again. In order to do that, we need to break through blockers in our thought process, and devops invites us to challenge traditional organizational barriers. The days of top-down control are over -- devops is a grass-roots movement similar to other horizontal revolutions, such as Facebook. The role of management is changing: no longer just directive, it is taking a more supportive role, unleashing the power of the people on the floor to achieve awesome results."
In this issue:- Devops: A Software Revolution in the Making?
- Why Enterprises Must Adopt Devops to Enable Continuous Delivery
- Devops at Advance Internet: How We Got in the Door
- The Business Case for Devops: A Five-Year Retrospective
- Next-Generation Process Integration: CMMI and ITIL Do Devops
- Devops: So You Say You Want a Revolution?