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Has a Flat World Flattened Education, Too?
Assertion: Colleges and universities are rapidly adopting online learning and other computer-based learning tools and techniques. The next generation of graduates will be computer savvy but not necessarily technically or socially competent. CIOs should take an active role with educational institutions as colleges struggle to redefine their core curriculums to be relevant for today’s learning community.
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Council Opinions are prepared by the Cutter Business Technology Council and include the commentary of each Council Fellow and the logic behind his or her concurring or dissenting opinion, as well as the strategic implications of the trend.
Published: June 2010, 16 pages, PDF format
Authora: Robert D. Scott, with concurrances and dissents by Tom DeMarco, Lynne Ellyn, Ken Orr, and Richard L. Nolan
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Innovation Under the Radar
In the fast-moving brief Innovation Under the Radar: Fast, Cheap and High Impact, Cutter Fellow Steve Andriole brings his experience as a CTO to bear to help you focus on the innovation projects you can actually make happen — initiatives that are fast, cheap, and likely to have huge payoffs.
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It's no secret that these are tough times. Yet the need to develop new products, solve tough R&D problems, creatively improve customer service and reengineer business processes has never been greater.
The tension between spending money to innovate and improve and the absolute requirement to cut costs to survive and remain competitive is electric.
This brief looks at 5 ways to accelerate affordable innovation:
- BPM initiatives that are neither time-consuming nor expensive.
- Expanding your team (without expanding your team).
- Create metrics that motivate the troops to innovate.
- Leverage social media as poor man's marketing, customer service and innovation.
- Using talent development as a "force multiplier."
Plus, you'll benefit from Steve's 5-pronged approach to setting parameters for your innovation programs: incentives, governance, funding, initiatives and assessment.
Find out how you can take advantage of relatively low-cost, low-risk innovation investments that can pay off in high-impact opportunities. Order your copy of Innovation Under the Radar: Fast, Cheap and High Impact by Cutter Fellow Steve Andriole today. Place your order now, and receive your copy immediately!
Published: 2010, 6 pages, PDF format (363 K)
Author: Stephen J. Andriole
Tablets in the Enterprise: Entering the Post-PC Era?
What’s happening in organizations with respect to tablet adoption and use? What are some of the trends at the heart of this “coming storm”?
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This special issue of Cutter Benchmark Review offers benchmarking data on the state of the adoption and use of tablets in the enterprise, in an attempt to understand whether they have become pervasive and how organizations are approaching their integration in the firm's overall infrastructure.
You'll receive insightful and provocative analysis on the applications of tablets in the enterprise, their use (or nonuse) as workstation replacements, and the possible barriers to adoption, such as concerns over data security.
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- The Tablet: A Solution in Search of a Problem by Joseph Feller
- A Storm Is Coming In by Niel Nickolaisen
- Tablet Excitement Is Here, Uses Still Emerging by Gabriele Piccoli
- Tablets in the Enterprise Survey Data collected by Cutter Consortium
Published: August 2011, 22 pages, PDF format
Authors: Gabriele Piccoli, Joseph Feller, and Niel Nickolaisen
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The Indoor Garden: Cultivating Openness Inside the Organization
Over the last decade, open innovation, crowdsourcing, and peer production have enabled organizations, communities and crowds to work, create, and solve problems individually and together.
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The new Cutter Consortium report, The Indoor Garden: Cultivating Openness Inside the Organization, by Joseph Feller, examines organizational and community-based openness and collaboration practices -- maximizing the power and intelligence of crowds -- and applies it behind the firewall to create the "internally open" organization. You’ll learn how you can improve problem solving and encourage innovation in your organization by applying these strategies to your own knowledge sharing, information processing and product/service co-creation practices.
This report will help you:
* Understand how peer production of open content (such as Wikipedia) can be applied to knowledge sharing in your organization.
* Use collaborative filtering and social navigation to improve intranets, content management systems, and document repositories.
* Create Web portals specific to your organization's interests and goals.
* Develop internal software products using the principals of peer production processes -- and get five lessons for doing it right.
* Learn how to use co-creation techniques to enhance the quality of your products and stimulate innovation.
Get key issues and insights to identify and harness the power of your internal communities and crowds.
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Published: December 2011, 16 pages, PDF format
Author: Joseph Feller
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