Outsourcing has been around for more than twenty years and as a result the majority of companies have had some experience of outsourcing as it relates to the benefits, challenges and value propositions it can bring for their business. The most successful ones have recognized that outsourcing is not a one-off IT project, but a [...]
I recently spoke at the Gartner Outsourcing and Strategic Partner Summit in Orlando, Florida on business-aligned outsourcing. This is Gartner’s big event for CIOs and IT/business leaders, sourcing managers, contract managers and vendor managers involved in outsourcing. Avanade has been successfully delivering on business aligned outsourcing strategies for years with its clients so I knew [...]
Next week, several of us from Avanade will be attending the Gartner Outsourcing & Strategic Partnerships Summit in Orlando, FL. and we’re excited to be a silver sponsor of the event. In order to provide CIOs, IT and Procurement professionals with the essentials around outsourcing, Ken Ramoutar, VP of Service Line Marketing, will be [...]
In other posts, I have alluded to the fact that the cloud computing paradigm, (with it’s pay-as-you-go financial modelling and it’s prescriptive service descriptions), will present a disruptive factor in traditional sourcing, but I thought I would flesh this out a little more. Fundamentally this is all about what I refer to as the [...]
