Bringing IT into the Boardroom
The board’s role in leveraging technology as a strategic resource.
March 16, 2009
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!
March 16, 2009
Project Portfolio Earned Value Management Using Treemaps
There are various techniques applied to manage project portfolios. This paper discusses using Earned Value Management and Treemaps. The latter provides a very powerful visual technique.
March 16, 2009
Forget SOX!
Are “flavors of the month” such as SOX and ITIL taking away focus from IT Governance?
March 16, 2009
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.
March 12, 2009
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.
March 12, 2009
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?
March 6, 2009
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!
March 6, 2009
The Economics of Outsourcing
An excellent presentation on the "economics" of outsourcing. Tackles key questions with data and analysis…not hype! Must read
March 6, 2009
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.
March 6, 2009