Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
The first article in this series, Understanding the ROI of Value Creation, is about safeguarding IT budgets shared an approach to protecting IT budgets by reallocating non-value creating IT spend to efforts creating tangible business value. The second article, How to Recapture IT Spending, then explored ways to recapture non-value IT spending as a means…
When you start on your journey to outsourcing, you have expectations that you will never have to worry about your technology infrastructure again. That’s not strictly true, because now you worry about the technology on a different level. You now worry more about how you can use the application of the technology to provide your…
In business today the active noun “sourcing” often is preceded by one of a growing collection of adjectives: “global”, “strategic”, “crowd”, “multi”, etc. However, each of these design models and potential pairings is built upon a single premise―no matter how capable each of us might be, in this day and age we simply cannot be…
“Polar views about SharePoint ranging from being naturally integrated and easily adopted by users to horror stories of it growing out of control and swallowing whole IT departments are common,” said Dave Uhler, solution director in Research and Development at Slalom Consulting, a national business and technology consulting firm. “As with most polarized experiences, the…
Even thought most companies are warming up to the idea of Cloud computing and it’s close cousin, software as a service, it will be some time before these competing technologies push aside in-house, packaged software for mission critical computing. This is because modernizing key legacy applications is the top software initiative for businesses this year,…