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Executive Update
An Organizational Approach to Managing Outsourcing Relationships
Outsourcing customers and providers usually enter into outsourcing relationships with noble intentions and high expectations. The CIO and other customer executives look forward to exemplary service, best-of-breed thinking, extraordinary responsiveness, and a vendor that shows both a partner-like caring about the customer's success and an intuitive understanding of the business.
SOFTWARE ESTIMATION TRICKS OF THE TRADE:
Executive Update
Outsourcing Help for Outsourcing
Whether new to outsourcing or well indoctrinated in working with IT vendors, you may find yourself in a situation where your outsourcing process itself -- planning for, procuring, and implementing vendor services -- needs help. A recent Cutter Consortium Outsourcing Survey indicates that more than one-third of outsourcing organizations surveyed use outside help to support their vendor engagements.
ACHIEVING BUSINESS OBJECTIVES II:
Building a Software Metrics Support Structure by Jim Mayes
"There are three kinds of people: those who can count and those who can't." -- Anonymous
We hear almost daily about the imperative need to align our IT infrastructure and systems with the business activity. IT must not only support our business processes within a fast-changing environment, but also be responsive to new demands for managerial information.
WHY IS A DIFFERENT OPERATING SYSTEM NEEDED? by David Mery
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Business performance depends on the appropriateness of the business model adopted by organizations and on how effectively their IT infrastructure supports this model. Every day, companies are faced with the imperative need to align IT to their fast-changing business needs. The rapid technological developments in the IT arena also bring into question current business models.