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Multivendor Sourcing: Setting Up Relationships for Success
Sole-source outsourcing relationships are dead. At least that's the feedback from Cutter Consortium's latest outsourcing survey in which 83% of respondents indicated that they are currently involved in multivendor engagements. Gone are the days when a single vendor provided everything necessary to address an organization's IT needs.
What causes an extremely successful and highly innovative company to lose 63% of its market value in one day? How is it that a consortium of some of the most recognized travel industry companies is unable to build an automated reservation system when it possesses tremendous depth of experience in its creation and operation?
Over the past decade and a half, there has been a marked shift in the nature and level of risk that organizations must deal with. Today, it's an organization's ability to understand and manage its full spectrum of risk that defines the boundary between success and failure.
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The Change Management Conundrum
If you ask the average citizen on the street for a definition of "open source," you'll probably get a blank look. Ask a programmer, though, and you'll not only get a precise definition, but several examples and an emotional argument for why it's good or bad.