Agile Roots–A Personal History
Every agilist brings his or her history to the community—agile didn’t spring from the primordial soup in 2001. While we may argue against historical practices, waterfall for example, we owe something...
View ArticleEcholalia: The CIO is Dead! Long Live the CIO!
It has been painful to watch the perennial angst of the CIO community. Each year, each conference, and each industry rag frets about what ails the CIO and what kind of CIO the CIO will need to be in...
View ArticleProf. Huggy Rao on Innovation
In September 2010 and in January, I attended two instances of “Stanford Leading Matters,” a roving conference by Stanford University aimed at raising the visibility (and gathering donations) for the...
View ArticleThe Three Faces of Innovation
Innovation is part of the curriculum in just about any Agile engagement I carry out for Cutter. To my way of thinking, the linkage between Agile and innovation is straightforward. Agile enables...
View ArticleIP, Innovation, and Collaboration: BFFs or Frenemies?
The argument that the current patent system discourages collaborative innovation among partners — hurting scientific, technical, economic, and societal progress — is gaining steam. At the core of this...
View ArticleIs the Patent System Discouraging Collaborative Innovation?
“Several cracks have appeared in patent systems worldwide,” wrote Claude Baudoin in his Cutter IT Journal Call for Papers on IP, Innovation, and Collaboration. At the heart of the issue, he says, is...
View ArticleThe End of Work Creeps a Bit Closer
My prediction for 2013 concerns the end of work for most of us — which may not necessarily be a good thing. Back in 1995, social activist and economist Jeremy Rifkin wrote a controversial book called...
View ArticleFrom Crowd Sourcing to WorkSourcing™
Crowd sourcing, through various social media sites as well as commercial sites such as Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, has become a common form of collectively gathering knowledge. Though forms of...
View ArticleRole of the Product Owner in the API Economy
In my “Cutter Predicts…” post for 2013, I briefly made the point that a picture/image of an asset is merely one form of representing a physical asset. With services like Instagram, The Fancy and...
View ArticleA Sixth Sense: Can Augmented Reality Make Things Better?
There is no doubt that the layering of interactive information over the physical world in real time — aka augmented reality (AR) — has a considerable “wow factor.” Nonetheless, IT decision makers need...
View ArticleInnovations in Fintech
State Street Corporation’s Advanced Technology Research Centres in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) and Asia Pacific (APAC), University College Cork (UCC) and Zhejiang University (ZJU), are...
View ArticleLessons for Innovators and Digital Disruptors
It could be argued that digital technologies present more profound and disruptive opportunities and threats to established business models than anything that’s come before. In Digital Disruption of...
View ArticleGive Design Thinking a Thought
Design thinking is gaining popularity among managers as a means to spurring creativity in innovation and problem solving. With design thinking, multidisciplinary teams work visually to see through the...
View ArticleWondering What are the Best Innovation Practices?
Many companies boast about having a culture of innovation, but, as Cutter Consortium Fellow Steve Andriole writes, they in fact don’t. Instead of breaking free of their cultural constraints to truly...
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Industries Where Blockchain is Having an Impact
A few months ago, I wrote about Cutter Consortium’s ongoing survey to gain insight into how organizations are adopting — or planning to adopt — blockchain technology. Cutter Senior Consultant Curt Hall...
View ArticleRepeat After Me: Fail Early, Fail Often
Nokia let the smartphone get away; Blockbuster never saw Netflix coming to steal its lunch. These are just two of the most frequently cited cases of incumbent businesses that didn’t pay enough...
View ArticleMaking Processes Lean Isn’t Lean Enough
Copycats abound for the Toyota Production System (TPS), which for years has been held out as the benchmark for Lean processes. There’s a widely-held belief that practicing Lean means eliminating waste...
View ArticleDo You Embrace Agility?
Traditional business and operating models are being digitally disrupted, forcing companies to quickly transition to new ways of doing business. And while not all businesses are equally at risk, every...
View ArticleThe Holy Grail of Innovation Management
Growth. It’s what CEOs are after. Sometimes it’s straightforward. Other times growth requires a company to move into new or unfamiliar areas. How can a company do this? Many have internal units or...
View Article[Call for Papers] Automation: The Next Frontier
An upcoming issue of Cutter Business Technology Journal will explore automation in terms of new technologies, opportunities, applications, and associated challenges. Share your insight! A new wave of...
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