Tips

Tips

Information technology outsourcing

• Enterprise digitization's secret ingredient: Fusion teams

  Cross-functional or 'fusion' teams are critical to meeting fast-changing digital challenges. Here are the four must-have team attributes for successful enterprise digitization.  Continue Reading

• Selling the value of cloud computing to the C-suite

  Selling the value of cloud computing to business leaders requires more than the usual bromides about cost savings and speed-to-market.  Continue Reading

• The new vendor governance model: Challenges, best practices

  How do leading IT vendor governance offices successfully adapt to a rapidly changing business environment?  Continue Reading

• IT vendor governance expands to business functions

  In the first of this two-part tip on IT vendor governance, Pace Harmon Director Dan McMahon lays out how vendor governance responsibilities are changing at leading companies.  Continue Reading

• Mistakes CIOs make on IT outsourcing deals -- and how to fix them

  CIOs don't sign on to large IT outsourcing deals expecting them to go bad, so what accounts for the high failure rates? Andy Sealock offers a game plan for de-risking your deal.  Continue Reading

• How to govern your IT outsourcing provider after the ITO deal is done

  The best ITO deals need tweaking as time goes on. Good governance ensures that you and your IT outsourcing provider are on the same page.  Continue Reading

• Future-proof your IT outsourcing contract: A CIO checklist

  Despite reams of advice on how to write a good IT outsourcing contract, ITO expert Andy Sealock 'still sees terrible deals all over the place.' Here's how to do it right.  Continue Reading

• The CIO's guide to the data center of the future

  When it comes to the enterprise data center of the future, past is probably not prologue, says SearchCIO columnist Harvey Koeppel. He offers five tips to prepare for the great data center unknown.  Continue Reading

• Free templates: IT vendor selection, social sharing and mobile devices

  SearchCIO has rounded up free templates from around the Web providing guidance on IT vendor selection, social sharing and mobile device policies.  Continue Reading

• Reshoring IT jobs in the U.S. vs. offshore outsourcing: Readers' take

  Is reshoring jobs in the U.S. picking up steam after years of IT offshore outsourcing increases? Our SearchCIO-Midmarket.com readers weigh in.  Continue Reading

• Incentive-based pricing models for your next IT outsourcing contract

  Looking to add oomph to your standard IT outsourcing contract? Here are three incentive-based pricing models that might help.  Continue Reading

• Knowledge is key in governing the extended enterprise

  Governing the extended enterprise requires a new way of thinking about relationships with suppliers and customers; each requires a strategy of its own.  Continue Reading

• In choosing the right model for outsourcing, consider three factors

  In choosing the right outsourcing model, enterprises need to consider differentiating, "who cares?" and parity factors.  Continue Reading

• Seven IT outsourcing strategy tips for emerging technologies

  An IT outsourcing strategy for emerging technology follows different rules from those of traditional deals. Here's a tip sheet for outsourcing new IT.  Continue Reading

• SaaS applications help Bosley consolidate apps, cut maintenance costs

  SaaS applications are helping the hair restoration provider cut maintenance costs, consolidate applications and centralize data for business intelligence.  Continue Reading