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Many organizations assume that if an obligation has been stated in a contract, the provider will comply with it and no further work needs to be done. However, astute organizations do not assume compliance, they ensure it. The time to discover the provider has not done so is not when your organization is seeking to invoke the clause, as the following case illustrates.
We have heard a lot recently about the ongoing and imminent integration of business and IT. Some example discussions range from "the CIO is dead" to the "cloud eliminates the IT department" and "business unit IT alignment won't matter" -- even to the agile argument that there aren't any IT projects any more, just business projects with an IT component.
Many organizations assume that if an obligation has been stated in a contract, the provider will comply with it and no further work needs to be done. However, astute organizations do not assume compliance, they ensure it. The time to discover the provider has not done so is not when your organization is seeking to invoke the clause, as the following case illustrates.
Executive Update
The New Outsourcing: Part II -- The Race to the Bottom
"You heard me right. They said they'd do the project for $1!" Those were the startling words from a friend who headed up an outsourcing practice. He had called to commiserate about the recent loss of a project his company was bidding on. It was a few years ago now, but I still remember it clearly.
As the 21st century proceeds, we are entering an era where basic assumptions about business organization and employment are evolving. This is resulting in a number of fundamental changes to expectations and skills requirements. People entering the workforce will need new sets of skills and new ways of working. This will be true across all business sectors, but the impacts within IT are likely to be profound.
Several weeks ago, a reader contacted me regarding a BI Advisor in which I said that I'd noticed a growing interest by end-user organizations in using data mining technology -- particularly for predictive customer analytics (see "How Do Your Data Mining and Predictive Analyti