The optimal conditions for innovation are almost the opposite of the optimal conditions for successful outsourcing...Recognising this paradox, how do we make innovation through outsourcing work?
'The challenge is how to adapt to the new delivery models that digital is driving…and do it fast! '
Disruption invites innovation, and while Brexit will impact the way businesses and people operate across the Channel, technology will play an even more critical role to simultaneously both help establish new borders and also to bridge the divide, writes Inder Singh of Unisys.
As CIOs lead the drive towards digitalisation of the organisation, the need to rethink differently about how they manage the changing mix of strategic IT suppliers.
Today outsourcing companies are learning Mandarin, Spanish, French, and German to serve those markets. Yesterday they were perfecting regional British and American accents.
To avoid litigation and headaches, in general, it’s imperative that you incorporate an effective arbitration clause into international outsourcing contracts.
IT organizations are increasingly interested in adopting DevOps models to deliver applications faster, better and cheaper to the business, but they're not inclined to look to their IT service providers for help with these efforts.
As business needs--and the new technologies required to support them--evolve ever more rapidly, outsourcing contracts signed just a year or two ago are already getting stale. That's why Mayer Brown business and sourcing technology partner Dan Masur is advising companies to revamp their outsourcing deals right now to not only access new options, but also to cut significant costs.
A new study from the Everest Group reports that most global in-house offshore centers deliver more savings than offshore outsourcing.
Three days after Nigel Prince joined the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry as CIO, his ambitions were reined in.
“The chief financial officer told me about all the money I didn’t have to spend on all the whizzy stuff I thought I could do in the MAF environment,” he told a recent CIO Insights luncheon.
The need to keep information secure is not a recent development. To satisfy this need, most organisations construct a list of security requirements based on common sense. This has proven fairly effective with simple and well understood media such as pen and paper. As information management (and its security) has become more complex in nature, the likelihood of a gap in that common sense list of requirements has increased.
Today’s workforce is expanding to include a growing number of contractors, despite high-profile security incidents. This paper identifies how to mitigate risks in what’s often a necessary business decision. · Many businesses don’t really have the luxury of asking, “can we afford the risk of a contractor?” · Companies like Target, Cogent Healthcare, Stanford Hospital, Beebe Healthcare and even the EPA have had breaches that were the result of “temporary” access · A substantial roadblock to productivity is granting them access to necessary systems, which in many cases house sensitive information
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