We have all heard of IQ (intelligence quotient) and even EI (emotional intelligence), but very few people seem to deal with collaborative intelligence (CI).

If you're looking for a great idea for a high-tech startup, read on.

It appears lately that all business consulting has something to do with cloud computing. For instance, an organization I am currently working with has a mandate in place requiring all forward-engineering projects to be developed using a virtualized cloud environment. This effort is, in this organization's "corporate mind's eye," a way to prepare it to move production applications into the cloud, which is something it has not previously done.

It appears lately that all business consulting has something to do with cloud computing. For instance, an organization I am currently working with has a mandate in place requiring all forward-engineering projects to be developed using a virtualized cloud environment. This effort is, in this organization's "corporate mind's eye," a way to prepare it to move production applications into the cloud, which is something it has not previously done.

Today's unprecedented growth rate of data (structured and unstructured) necessitates faster and cost-effective processing for near-real-time decision making. Over the years, many have viewed high-performance computing (HPC) as a monster too complex and too unaffordable for processing large data. However, that viewpoint is changing rapidly due to open source innovations such as Apache Hadoop, the advent of the cloud, and simple and affordable platforms like Microsoft.

Today's unprecedented growth rate of data (structured and unstructured) necessitates faster and cost-effective processing for near-real-time decision making. Over the years, many have viewed high-performance computing (HPC) as a monster too complex and too unaffordable for processing large data.

In Part I of this two-part Executive Update series, we reviewed the critical urgency of IT "marketing" its value to the business end users with a vision that is crisp, clear, and compelling.1 Businesses now have competitive

This Executive Update examines the potential value of microblogging for software development teams.

This Executive Update describes two security challenges in the design of Web applications and how they can be addressed: the client-side equipment and the network

Several months after 9/11, I received an article that had been submitted to a journal I was guest-editing.

In June/July 2011, Cutter Consortium conducted a survey asking 61 end-user organizations about the adoption and use of text mining and analysis.

Enterprise portfolio management has been evolving for the past several years toward a unified vision that incorporates the diverse areas of portfolio concepts, bringing them tog

My objective in this Executive Update is to provide some perspective on social media and the implications of what we call the "social media opportunity" when your company assesses its IT investment opportunities.

How does the explosion of social media and the blogosphere relate to your company? Are customers using Twitter and Facebook to talk about their experiences with your products or services? How do global geopolitical events impact your business?

This Executive Update discusses some of the reasons behind the success of the BMC Agile rollout. It reviews past decisions in light of knowledge, experience, and insights that evolved a long  time after the decisions, for better or worse, had been executed. In general, it’s about my making sense of  things and sharing the author's insights with Cutter clients.

I am on the road about 280 days a year. During my travels, I collect over 500 business cards every five to six weeks. In fact, I've been called a "bow tie wearing sensing device" by my sharper-tongued colleagues. During the past two years, I have been going door to door with senior executives to determine what the "top of the house" is really thinking about.

Governments utilize lawful interception (LI) as a means of law enforcement. LI consists of obtaining telecommunications data -- both the signaling information and the content of the communications themselves -- in order to identify and circumvent potential threats and crimes and to gather evidence against the perpetrators.

Make no mistake (no pun intended). I realize there are hundreds of mistakes waiting out there for project managers to make, and I've probably made many of them somewhere along the way in my 25-year IT career.

Business process modeling lies at the core of all attempts to visualize and manage business processes.

This Executive Update will give you, your colleagues, and your superiors a fairly good "3D" picture of what a technical debt initiative will look like in the context of your own business imperatives and predicaments.

The phenomenal growth of digital data over the past several decades, known today as Big Data, has created a range of issues and opportunities. In the earliest days, accessible data consisted of alphanumeric records and simple text. These could be organized, managed, and stored with relative ease.

The phenomenal growth of digital data over the past several decades, known today as Big Data, has created a range of issues and opportunities.

The collection of development techniques and work management practices commonly referred to as agile methods has evolved rapidly over the past decade to the point where it is difficult to find any sizable IT organization that doesn't make claim to some sort of agile initiative. Mainstream management thinkers1 have begun to take notice and to hold up agile practices as a model of self-organization for the 21st century.