Cutter Consortium
Cutter Consortium, founded by Karen Fine Coburn in 1986 as Cutter Information Corp., is a global information technology research company. In 1990, Cutter purchased the American Programmer journal (now called Cutter IT Journal), and partnered with Ed Yourdon to form the Cutter Consortium. Cutter formerly published several environmental titles, which it sold to Aspen Publishers in 2002.
Focus Areas
Cutter research focuses on the areas of agile software development, agile project management, business architecture and enterprise architecture, business intelligence, outsourcing, business-technology strategy, risk management and benchmarking.
Services
Cutter Consortium provides research, training, and consulting.
Research includes:
the monthly Cutter IT Journal: a collection of half a dozen articles on a specific topic selected by a guest editor
the quarterly Cutter Benchmark Review: survey-based research analyzed by an industry practitioner and by an academic contributor
periodic Executive Reports (20-30 pages) in each of the focus areas