Since this is the halfway point of my tenure as editor of Cutter Benchmark Review, I thought this would be a good time to give you, our readers, a tour of our production process. When preparing for a new issue, we typically start by looking at the set of Cutter Online Resource Centers and, trying to balance our coverage of topics amongst them, formulate ideas about what you, our readers, would most value: knowledge management, security, privacy, new IT trends, IT innovation (next issue), and so on.
April 2006
In this issue:April 2006
Why are seminars on measuring IT performance so well attended but implementation of performance management programs so rare? Could it be that we are afraid to manage IT like a business? Tune in next month as we look IT performance management full in the face — and live to tell the tale. Our expert authors will show you how to design a dashboard with leading indicators that help you take action.
In this issue:- The CIO Dashboard and IT Performance Management: Key to Demonstrating IT’s Value?
- Opening Statement: The CIO Dashboard and IT Performance Management: Key to Demonstrating IT’s Value?
- Getting on the Same Page: Dashboard Development from Planning to Implementation
- Mitigating Metrics Madness: How to Tell KPIs from Mere Metrics
- Action-Oriented Metrics for IT Performance Management
- Measuring Business Value from IT Investments
- In Pursuit of Value
- CIO Dashboards: Flying by Instrumentation
March 2006
Whether they're driven by the need for business-IT alignment, the spread of service-oriented architectures, or other factors, enterprise architecture (EA) programs are clearly proliferating. In this month's Cutter IT Journal, you'll see how Subaru's EA effort transformed a maze of overlapping applications and unsupported technology platforms into a simple, flexible IT environment that keeps pace with changing business needs.
In this issue:March 2006
In this issue of Cutter Benchmark Review, we focus on a topic that has been in and out of the limelight since the mid-1990s when it became one of the hottest topics in boardrooms, management publications, and consulting briefs: knowledge management (KM).
February 2006
Forecasting the future - or more precisely, attempting to forecast the future - is an exercise as old as mankind itself. The ancient Greek and Roman civilizations, for example, engaged in all kinds of rituals and propitiatory sacrifices to ensure good fortune in their future endeavors. Back then, as it is still today, there were all sorts of individuals whose role was to "peer into the future" for the benefit of the uninitiated. More often than not, these foretellers offered up more questions than answers.