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Cutter Fellow Vince Kellen named to CIO Hall of Fame

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Though you won’t find his name in Cooperstown or Springfield, Cutter Fellow Vince Kellen is indeed a newly-minted hall-of-famer! The University of San Diego CIO is just the third higher-education CIO named to the CIO Hall of Fame since its inception in 1997. Members of the Cutter Consortium community have benefited since 2005 from Vince’s outside-the-box Read more

How your organization can achieve the ambidextrous advantage

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Organizational resilience is emerging as a key source of competitive advantage in the age of hyper-competition and disruption. A new breed of leaders understands that winning requires being ambidextrous—the ability to embrace both speed/creativity and scale/productivity. In their Executive Update “Ambidextrous Organizations: How to Embrace Disruption and Create Organizational Advantage,” Cutter Consortium Senior Consultants Wilhelm Read more

It is possible to shorten the idea-to-launch time span for industrial products

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The Industrial Agile Framework™, developed by Cutter Consortium Senior Consultant Hubert Smits and Peter Borsella, pulls together everything that’s needed to design and mass produce a product —beginning with an idea and including design, components, supplier considerations, manufacturing, and everything in between — to shorten the idea-to-launch time span for industrial products. In the Cutter Read more

When Architecture Disappears, the Enterprise Thrives

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Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better. — Edward Djikstra Architecture’s raison d’être is to manage complexity and enable value generation for the enterprise that rests on it. But does the enterprise of architecture always produce Read more

When Architecture Disappears, the Enterprise Thrives

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Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better. — Edsger W. Dijkstra Architecture’s raison d’être is to manage complexity and enable value generation for the enterprise that rests on it. But does the enterprise of architecture always Read more

The Death of the Mail Man

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David Horsey  Copyright 2013 Tribune Media Services The invention of the modern computer can be seen as a fundamental paradigm shift. But contrary to what the technology geeks want to make us believe, it is not about technology, digital content, the internet, or electronic devices. Since it can (and in a few decades, will) be seen […]

Complementing Agile SDLC with Agile Architecture

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The reality of today’s highly competitive and customer demand-centric market conditions have pushed software (solution) delivery organizations beyond the traditionally accepted limits of software development and delivery capabilities. There is no argument that Lean methodologies such as Lean Six Sigma and DevOps can help improve operational solution delivery capacities through: Streamlining of solution delivery process …

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Complementing Agile SDLC with Agile Architecture

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The reality of today’s highly competitive and customer demand-centric market conditions have pushed software (solution) delivery organizations beyond the traditionally accepted limits of software development and delivery capabilities. There is no argument that Lean methodologies such as Lean Six Sigma and DevOps can help improve operational solution delivery capacities through: Streamlining of solution delivery process Read more