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Enterprise 3.0 is about trends -- and outcomes. It's about radical changes that, taken together, move us away from silly debates about business technology "alignment" and closer to business technology convergence.
BACKGROUND OF CLIENT-VENDOR RELATIONSHIPS
We first address the central challenge facing client-vendor relationships and then look at the evolution of these relationships.
This installment of CBR focuses on one of the most enduring issues in IT management for both practice and research: IT outsourcing and the management of the client-vendor relationship. Helping us navigate the topic are experts from both the academic and the practice sides of this important issue. Our academic contributors are David Murungi and Santiago Peña, PhD students at the E.J.
SURVEY DEMOGRAPHICS
This survey investigated client-vendor contract and relationship management. Eleven percent of the 45 responding organizations have more than 50,000 employees, 7% have between 10,000 and 50,000 employees, 27% have between 1,000 and 10,000 employees, 36% have between 100 and 1,000 employees, and the remaining organizations have 100 or fewer employees.
EA Is Catching Up with Reality
Enterprise architecture is finally becoming a mature, mainstream activity in large organizations. This includes controlling complexity and aligning to the business in light of current realities such as outsourcing.
Enterprise architecture (EA) practices1 have evolved and matured significantly over the past two decades. However, EA as a discipline continues to be largely misunderstood by management, who questions its value, and EA initiatives still often fail to achieve actionable outcomes.
Abstract
By now, agile methodologies have become established as a means of correcting a variety of ills within the software development environment. The next step is to move them to center stage within the enterprise.