Executive Reports

“Enterprise Architecture at 23” – Cutter Consortium – Arlington, Mass. February 2010
This 30-page report presents the state and directions of EA and gives CIOs and business executives pragmatic recommendations to apply frameworks such as TOGAF, incorporating business process management, SOA, Master Data Management, and cloud solutions.

“Business Process Management Glossary” – Cutter Consortium – Arlington, Mass. June 2010 and April 2013
Having identified that there was not a high-quality glossary of BPM concepts available, we proposed and delivered a 20-page glossary, first published in 2010, which is being updated and republished in 2013.

“Social Media and the Enterprise” – Cutter Consortium – Arlington, Mass.
February 2011
This 31-page report presents scenarios for the adoption of social media in business. It addresses the issues (and the hype over some of these issues) and describes examples of successful usage.

A Product Architecture Brief – A networking equipment supplier – San Jose, Calif. April-June 2011
Preparing for the launch of a software product, the client found that their technical writers could not deliver a strategic architecture white paper for a CIO-level audience. We interviewed product managers and architects and wrote a 26-page paper.