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Why Can't We Pick the Right Vendors?
We can all recall situations where we've told ourselves, "I should have known better." In most cases, our mistakes probably didn't cost us much -- a few hours listening to a pitch about buying a time-share in Florida or getting a bunch of junk e-mails. When selecting a vendor for an IT outsourcing project, however, mistakes can have a great deal more impact.
How do you manage a large organization in today's high-tech environment? More to the point, how do you manage a real-time organization working at Internet speed? These are the questions managers everywhere are faced with today.
CHANGE IS CHANGING 1 March 2000 by Jim Highsmith
The Internet changes everything. Okay, now that we're through the obligatory opening for every article these days, let's focus on the key issue for business-IT alignment -- change is changing.
73% OF COMPANIES OUTSOURCING PART OF I.T. 29 February 2000 by Cutter Consortium
According to preliminary results from an outsourcing study conducted by Cutter Consortium, 73% of companies surveyed outsource some part of their IT services.
In the first five articles in this series, I identified a maturity model for Internet technology adoption (below). This final article focuses on how companies can move from Level 4 to Level 5. This model parallels the SEI-CMM in that Level-5 organizations continue to develop, continue to measure where they are against industry leaders, and are ever vigilant in their search for new technologies, new methods, and new business models that offer competitive advantage.