Archive for March, 2008

27 March 2008- 10:58 AM

Remembering Art

We were saddened to learn that a former member of Cutter Consortium’s Enterprise Risk Management & Governance advisory service, Art Gemmer, passed away in his sleep. Art helped pioneer project and program risk management at Rockwell Collins, where he worked for 27 years before leaving and starting his own consulting company. […]

20 March 2008- 09:20 AM

Innovation of the Second Kind: Cultivating a Frame of Mind

I see a difference between innovation as it relates to particular products, services, or ideas, and innovation as it relates to the great changes that are shuffling their feet in the wings, ready to come on stage and change our lives. To assure long life as a company making goods to sell at a profit, […]

11 March 2008- 06:51 AM

Is a Data Warehouse Essential for Business Performance Management?

The majority of organizations that have implemented or are planning to implement business performance management solutions rely on a data warehouse to support the data integration requirements of their performance management initiatives. This finding comes from a Cutter Consortium survey conducted in January 2008 of 101 end-user organizations based worldwide. The survey was designed to […]

4 March 2008- 11:50 AM

Technology Trends: Room for Cautious Optimism

We recently published the results of our annual Cutter Benchmark Review survey on trends and technologies for the coming year. This is the third yearly issue of CBR where we ask our contributors to look forward to the coming year and see what technologies and IT trends we can expect to endure, which ones are […]