This month's Cutter Benchmark Review marks the third installment in our annual series on IT budgets and the yearly IT budgeting process. The budgeting process is one of critical importance to IT and business professionals in our subscriber base. It is the importance of this process that leads us to address it each year. Doing so also allows us to comment on year-over-year changes and monitor how the priorities of the organizations we survey change over time.
July 2008
June 2008
In this issue we look at forecasting and forecasting techniques in the business and organizational setting.
In this issue:- Seeing the Future: Proliferating Data Sources and Forecasting Techniques Make It — Opening Statement
- Improving and Leveraging Your Forecasting Practices
- Forecasting in Business: The Promise of Artificial Intelligence
- Forecasting and IT: Should a Tight Relationship Lead to a Merger?
- Forecasting Survey Data
June 2008
"There appears to be a bit of a paradox between the massive and recent consolidation in ES and the excitement for and growth of SaaS and E 2.0. If E 2.0 and SaaS are such great opportunities, why are vendors still consolidating?"
-- Vince Kellen, Guest Editor
New Tech, New Life
Enterprise software (ES) is changing. Adoption of SOA, SaaS, and E 2.0 technologies is breathing new life into the ES market. This bodes well for firms seeking more ES flexibility and ease of use.
In this issue:May 2008
"The prevailing traditional project management paradigm is, at best, struggling to deliver to the increasing expectations of business and government clients. At worst, it has become increasingly focused inward on certification, bureaucracy, and formal complexity."
-- Rob Thomsett, Guest Editor
In this issue:- Project Management 2.0: Using Agile, Enterprise 2.0, and Other Modern Methods to Manage Today's Projects
- My PMO's Midlife Crisis
- What Can We Do About Our Project Managers?
- Project Management 2.0: It Won't Go Anywhere Without Project Leadership 1.0
- What Lifecycle? Selecting the Right Model for Your Project
- Beyond Agile Project Management: The Way Forward
- My Avatar Is Agile -- Is Yours? Using Scrum to Manage Projects in Virtual World
- Discovering the Benefits of Project Management 2.0
May 2008
This issue of Cutter Benchmark Review focuses on green IT and green IS. This installment will hopefully convince you that using IS to become more efficient and to reduce your organization's environmental footprint is not only the right thing to do, but plain-old good business and bottom-line management.