Designed to Fail?
Most IT-enabled business projects are designed to underachieve in realizing the expected benefits often incorporated in the project’s deployment plan in the first place!
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Overview of International IT Guidance on IT Governance Frameworks
This document offers a global overview of the following important international standards and guidance for IT control and IT security in relationship to COBIT: COSO, ITIL®, ISO/IEC 17799:2005, FIPS Pub 200, ISO/IEC TR13335, ISO/IEC 15408, 2005, PRINCE2®, PMBOK®, TickIT, CMMI®, TOGAF 8.1, IT Baseline Protection Manual and NIST 800-14.
Value Discovery: A Better Way to Prioritize IT Investments
The current debate over IT spending often misses the point. Its not how much you spend, its the way you manage your IT spending that counts. The goal is not reduced spending but selective, value-creating spending that makes a greater contribution to the bottom line.
Offshoring’s Next Wave?
Is it time to take another look at offshoring? Why? How do you go about it? Read On…
Governance of Outsourcing
A very good summary – I believe it lacks details – on managing outsourced processes in an organization. Good read!
Managing Changing ROI of Offshore Outsourcing
The unit labor costs are rising – exponentially in some instances – in key offshore destinations such as India. People switch jobs in a matter of weeks – the attrition rates are always a problem in booming economies. So how do you cope?
Revisiting Outsourcing
Is it time to rethink your outsourcing relationship? If you have made one of the errors highlighted in this article then the answer is yes!
The Economics of Outsourcing
An excellent presentation on the "economics" of outsourcing. Tackles key questions with data and analysis…not hype! Must read
Assessing client maturity: a key to successful outsourcing
This paper presents the Client Outsourcing Maturity Model (COMM), a three-dimensional framework and provides an example of its assessment methodology results.
A Framework to Create a Business Case for Outsourcing
This paper presents a framework for assessing outsourcing benefits and costs from the firm’s perspective
