Outsourcing

Outsourcing is a strategy that engages people, processes or technologies external to an organization to conduct activities that were once (or could be) conducted with internal resources. Outsourcing can include manufacturing processes, professional services (e.g. legal teams), business processes (e.g. customer service) or technology (e.g. application development or computing infrastructure) locally or in distant locations.

Cloud Computing’s Global Disparity

Justin Kern | Feb 22, 2012

reportBusiness Software Alliance report finds varying national standards, security with cloud regulation; U.S. ranks 4th best

Biting the Bullet for a Core Upgrade

John Adams | Feb 06, 2012

case studyFor many financial institutions, the core-upgrade avoidance is over, as a growing number of financial institutions take on costly, year-long tech projects

Outsourcing, After 34 Years In House

Shane Kite | Feb 02, 2012

case studyOutsourcing servers make for a huge cultural change at one Massachusetts bank

Cloud Accountability Starts from the Inside

Justin Kern | Jan 25, 2012

newsNIST issues first guidelines on security and privacy for deployments

Will Your New CIO Be a CMO?

Jim Ericson | Jan 04, 2012

Information Management BlogsAmid outsourcing trends, a Gartner analyst says chief marketing officers will spend more on IT than CIOs by 2017

IT Innovation: New Models and Methods

Bruce Guptill | Dec 28, 2011

Information Management BlogsPatterns in education/academic investment, patent filings and related activity, and enterprise R&D investment clearly indicate a movement away from old sources

IT Outsourcing in a Slump

Justin Kern | Dec 09, 2011

Information Management NewsContracts need a rally at end of 2011 to beat eight-year low, according to Ovum

HBR is Sunny on the Cloud

Steve Miller | Oct 25, 2011

Information Management BlogsFocus of Harvard article on cloud is three-fold for execs: 1) What does the cloud mean for my IT department?; 2) What are the risks/concerns of using the cloud?; and 3) How should my company get started?

Lost Cats and BI

Ted Cuzzillo | Oct 13, 2011

Information Management Info DirectAt some point, natural selection takes over. People, departments and organizations that use data poorly tend to fail while the rest do better

Cloud Still Nascent as Data Center Outsourcing to Reach $8B

Pat Speer | Oct 12, 2011

Information Management NewsResearch says risk management plays a role in determining public versus private cloud options, but companies still feel vulnerable, resulting in their likelihood to develop private cloud as part of existing infrastructure

Funds for IT Outsourcing Flatten

Carrie Burns | Oct 04, 2011

Information Management NewsStudy shows IT executives are maintaining the status quo, awaiting evidence that the tenuous economic recovery will progress before engaging in more strategic outsourcing initiatives