technology research founded 1986 headquarters arlington ma usa key people karen fine coburn founder website www.cutter.com cutter consortium founded by karen fine coburn in 1986 1 as cutter information corp. is a global information technology research company . 2 in 1990 cutter purchased the american programmer journal now called cutter it journal and partnered with ed yourdon to form the cutter consortium . 3 cutter formerly published several environmental titles which it sold to aspen publishers in 2002 . contents 1 focus areas 2 services 3 references 4 external links focus areas edit cutter research focuses on the areas of digital transformation agile software development agile project management business architecture and enterprise architecture business intelligence outsourcing business technology strategy risk management and benchmarking . services edit cutter consortium provides consulting training and research . 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 periodic executive updates 4 6 pages weekly e mail advisors delivered to clients . education includes the cutter summit a two day executive education program that provides a high ratio of experts to attendees typically held every 12 18 months in the boston area seminars tutorials workshops webinars peer to peer discussions etc. held at different times and in different locations during the year principally in the u.s. and mexico the ability to hold ad hoc calls with cutter consultants to discuss a specific client issues . consulting consists of personalized advisory services on or off site the cutter consultants who deliver the services are selected from a pool of about 150 expert independent professionals who have spent most of their career holding business or it management positions in industry academia or government . these consultants are also the authors of most of cutter publications . the consultants are principally located in the us europe australia canada and mexico . references edit thomas hoffman . cutter consortium looks to unlock innovation . computerworld . retrieved 26 december 2006 . external link in work help tekrati site staff . agile development expert jens coldewey expands cutter consortium team in europe . tekrati . retrieved 26 december 2006 . external link in work help patrick thibodeau . edward yourdon remembered for great wisdom about everything it . computerworld . retrieved 12 april 2016 . external link in work help external links edit official website this article about a corporation in the service industry is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title cutter consortium & oldid 719526517 categories information technology consulting firms of the united statescompanies based in massachusettscompanies established in 19861986 establishments in massachusettsservice company stubshidden categories cs1 errors external linksall stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 10 may 2016 at 06 43 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view