As with the evolution of architecture in enterprises, accidental emergence was the invisible hand behind the architecture of this issue of Cutter IT Journal. You will see that each of the five articles deals with a very different facet of architecture. While these do not represent the totality of everything needed to make architecture successful, I hope you will see, as I do, that these five are some of the most significant aspects that we need to wrap our minds around.
February 2015
In this issue:- Enterprise Architecture: Toward a More Perfect Union Between Business and IT — Opening Statement
- Reconceptualizing the IT Delivery Model and the Role of Enterprise Architect
- Business Architecture Tames the Wicked Problem of Portfolio Management
- Putting Architecture Back into Agile
- Enabling Successful EA Governance with an Architecture Review Board
- Architecture in the New Style of IT
January 2015
Building trust and partnership requires credible performance, accountability, common goals, and clear roles for all partnership members, which happens when leadership -- both business and IT -- defines the relationship in these terms.
In this issue:- Improving Trust and Partnership Between Business and IT — Opening Statement
- Whom Do You Trust? What the Business Technology Partnership Should Look Like in the 21st Century
- Bridging the Great Divide Between the Business and IT: A Business Perspective
- Trust: Basic, Critical, Elusive
- Improving the Business-IT Relationship with IT Project Portfolio Management
- Trust-Building Success and Failure: Two Case Studies
- Strangers on a Train: The Rise of the Uneasy, But Mutually Advantageous, Alliance Between IT and Marketing
January 2015
"The annual IT trends issue deals with a very complex and hard- to-predict environment that is extremely important to our daily experience and endeavors."
— Joseph Feller, Editor
I was recently invited to give a technology forecast at a partner company's annual user conference. I agreed but made it very clear at the start of my presentation that I was going to provide the forecast in the style of Met Éireann.
December 2014
The new mobile freedom is germinating a sense of self-reliance in users. Recent controversies such as high-profile privacy leaks of celebrities' photos and similar stories have gained enormous coverage in the press and loom large in mobile users' minds. They see themselves at risk, personally. This is an opportunity for tutelage that users' employers should seize. Better digital hygiene can reduce risks and let a user rest easier. And it can provide IT security directors with a glimmer of light at the end of a very dark tunnel.
In this issue:- Mobile Security: Managing the Madness — Opening Statement
- Driving Enterprise Mobile App Usage: Moving from Stuck to Secure, Scalable, Usable -- and Productive
- Mobile's Biggest Threat? It's Not What You Think
- Privacy of Mobile Users: Pitfalls and Recommendations
- Mobile Security from a Practical Perspective
November 2014
The IoT should not be viewed as only a technological opportunity. It has the potential to transform how people and business interact in significant ways. Therefore, people must be placed at the center of the IoT conversation.
In this issue:- The IoT: Technologies, Opportunities, and Solutions — Opening Statement
- The Industrial Internet: The Opportunities ... and the Roadblocks
- Leveraging the Internet of Things: Emerging Architectures for Digital Business
- Architecting for New Business Opportunities in the Internet of Things
- A Comparative Study of Data-Sharing Standards for the Internet of Things
- Thinking About Making Your Product Smart? Keep These 10 Things in Mind