What is Data Governance and Why Do You Need It?

Data is now essential for businesses as a critical asset to support a company’s strategy, growth, and survival. Data knowledge’s extensive use and re-use can deliver internal and external business performance improvement (Business Processes), provide …

10 Rewired Risk Rules for the Digital Era

Cutter Fellow Noah Barsky outlines 10 unconventional rules for helping us identify critical risks. He argues that we should not relegate risk management to our compliance or legal departments. On the contrary, we need to transform the mindset that says…

Navigating Business Through Turbulent Waters

Cutter Expert Paul Clermont helps us understand how and why capable, experienced people often make poor choices. He describes familiar pathologies like confirmation bias, groupthink, and the tendency to double down on failing courses of action in which…

Bizzdesign’s Approach to Capability Governance Tailored to Customers’ Needs (Part 2 of 2)

Bizzdesign’s Approach to Capability Governance Tailored to Customers’ NeedsBizzdesign’s approach to Capability Governance is similar to BIZBOK’s but more pragmatic. Most importantly, it takes into account that many business architecture initiatives start from the IT organization as well as from a lower level of maturity. We often see that the core of a capability mapping team comes from some architecture department or team…