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 […]

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 […]

I’m a storyteller by heart, which is why I so enjoy the work that I do. Not only my own stories, but exciting stories about what other people have experienced in life and work, which I’ve been privileged to share with them as a consultant.
My last Cutter webinar was about telling stories from 5 companies […]

If agile methods are to go mainstream, it might be when their popularity and legitimacy reach a tipping point. An example that this could be happening is a recent New York Times article called ” Google Gets Ready to Rumble With Microsoft” (16 December 2007), which Cutter colleague Ken Orr wrote […]

Speaking of disasters…
I had the great opportunity to provide analysis for this month’s newly published Cutter Benchmark Review; “Wake Up and Be Prepared: Preventing a Full-Blown Crisis.”
You would think that in this day and age that all organizations would have a documented emergency and disaster plan, wouldn’t you? Well, this survey demonstrates that this is […]