Cutter Business Technology Council

Their ideas have become important building blocks of today's digitally-connected global economy. Take advantage of the experience, eloquence, independence, and prescience found in their Council Opinions and onsite, in your enterprise.

Our Methodology

Predicting the future is an iffy business. The difference between a faintly established trend and an illusion of pattern is of particular concern to the Cutter Business Technology Council.

That's why the Council approaches the discussion of important new trends using a process adapted from the United States Supreme Court. While other analyst firms prognosticate without explaining how they reached their conclusions -- making the whole process seem like guesswork -- the Council's strongly worded Opinions display the thinking behind the predictions, including concurring and dissenting opinions.

Council Fellows begin the process with a simple Assertion, capturing a specific nascent trend. The team debates the idea, and if it still stands after this first round, it is complemented by a written Syllabus, describing the idea in more detail and sketching out its rationale. From there, its champion develops a full Opinion, including a scenario leading to establishment of the trend, a detailed case for why such a scenario is likely to develop, and why the trend is likely to be important.

Next, the Opinions are circulated among Council Fellows, and invited contributors who may elect to Concur (join) or Dissent, providing their reasoning, along with the assumptions behind their reasons. You know where everyone stands on the import of the trend. Then, the final section, Strategic Implications, is added, indicating how companies and organizations can profit from and take advantage of each new development.

Armed with the attributable rationale behind each Assertion, your organization can more confidently bet on the future, and make decisions and develop the scenario planning that will enable you to react to events that the future will bring.

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