Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
by Ken Pedersen, COO of Geneca We’ve all been there. The business announces an exciting new project. You organize an implementation team. The team’s excited, the kick-off is great, the first stand-up meetings rock. Then, fast forward three months and the team is struggling. Decision makers are hard to find or uninvolved in the day-to-day….
Icebergs and sinking ships This is the point in the story where most advisors, consultants and offshore outsourcing vendors will start preaching the mantra that prevention is the best cure. Not a single CIO will disagree with that premise, but such a recital isn’t helpful when the iceberg has already hit and the ship has…
Failed deliverables from offshore outsourcers are a common experience as evidenced by the size and number of LinkedIn discussions, other social media and community posts, and court queues. There are, of course, numerous excuses rendered, few accepted, and passionate arguments on both sides. But when you cut through the noise and look at what you’re…
By Rob Prinzo of The Prinzo Group It is time to face reality. The spending cuts caused by the recession have lead to gaps between your enterprise software applications and the most current releases. The longer you wait to upgrade, the larger the gap, the larger the gap, the bigger the project. Although most organizations…