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Catch the Wave of Business Video
Who Is Driving the Bus? The Cloud Standards Battle
One reason for slow cloud adoption within the enterprise has been a justifiable fear of vendor lock-in and proprietary systems partially caused by a woeful lack of cloud computing standards. Cloud migration or onboarding has long been hampered by the lack of virtual image standardization.
Staffing for the Big Data Future
IT Trust and Partnership
Connecting Macro with Micro
In my Advisor "Reassessing Your Software Process," I drew a parallel between transaction cost and velocity. According to classical economic theory (see R.H.
Avoid Systems of Engagement Silos
Intellectual Property, Innovation, and Collaboration: BFFs or Frenemies?
[From the Editor: This week's Cutter IT Advisor is from Cutter Senior Consultant Claude Baudoin's introduction to the September 2012 issue of Cutter IT Journal, "IP, Innovation, and Collaboration: BFFs or Frenemies? " (Vol. 25, No. 9).
Tablets Take Off
Each time I fly, I notice flight attendants taking passengers' food and drink orders on a pad of paper. I've thought for some time now that would be a perfect scenario for using a tablet device. So you can imagine just how pleased I was to learn recently that American Airlines (AA) is going to be doing just that.
What's a Knowledge Worker to Do? Part I
With the rise of Big Data analytics and significant improvements in high-performance computing, it is likely that more knowledge-worker jobs will get displaced. Industry and academia are finding new ways of mining data and performing complex tasks previously done only by humans. IBM's Watson’s adroitness at Jeopardy may precede, by perhaps only a few years, general-purpose computing’s ability in diagnosing illnesses and processing complex business problems. Advanced image-processing capabilities can be applied to adding metadata to video files.
What's a Knowledge Worker to Do? Part I
The Path to Communication Mastery
Architecture Description: ISO/IEC/IEEE 42010:2011
Cloud Computing: What's Next?
Sharing Data for Better Intelligence: Necessity or Utopia?
"Why Can't the FBI Build a Case Management System?" Part I
If you are a CIO, project manager, or chief architect involved in or contemplating a very large system replacement, you owe it to yourself to read Jerome (Jack) Israel's article in IEEE Computer entitled, " Why Can't the FBI Build a Case Management System?" It is a
Processes, Value Streams, and Capabilities
Effects of Big Data
Big Data Security in Hadoop
The Power of "Showback" to IT Customers -- Moving IT into the "Driver's Seat"
I have heard so many CIOs say they just want to be able to walk into the offices of their internal customers -- business-unit VPs and other executives -- and show them exactly the real, fully loaded costs of the systems they are using and the financial consequences of some of the demands they push on IT without full knowledge of costs.
A Practical Agile Manifesto -- An Issue of Balance
Seven Tips to Take Process Modeling to the Next Level
Resolving Big Data Analytics Challenges, Issues, and Concerns
In my last Advisor (“ Big Data Analytics in a Socially Infused Healthcare Enterprise”), I shared an account of leveraging Big Data analytics in a large healthcare IT organization.
Reassessing Your Software Process
A process, in my honest opinion, is the product of its era. It reflects the needs, the constraints, and the predicaments of its time. As those change, the process needs to evolve in tandem. If it does not, it is likely to become obsolete.