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As an agile evangelist, your ultimate job is to transform your organization's culture so you are faster at noticing and responding effectively to opportunities. The first agile project will enable you to show the benefits of a new way of working and enroll the support of others for future organizational transformation.
Before you invest heavily in an outsourcing initiative, you must make sure there is a compelling rationale based on sound economic analysis. An outsourcing business case is the basis on which each "go/no-go" decision will be made.
A general approach to business cases covers an assessment of the following:
Cloud computing is the current state of the art in data center infrastructure and provision of computing resources as a service. It offers numerous advantages to businesses. The cloud makes it possible to outsource applications and infrastructure to companies whose core competence lies in providing these services as well as in maintaining the required infrastructure.
Many of our business processes -- operating over the Internet or otherwise -- remain wedded to a production-line mindset that is stuck in the world of the 1980s. A well-planned business process managemenht (BPM) and service-oriented architecture (SOA) strategy needs to encourage the use of services as a tool to improve processes and solve specific business problems.
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 next case illustrates.