25 May 2000: Two years after Computer Weekly launched its campaign to stamp out the practice of stiffing, Karl Schneider looks back at what has been achieved and asks where we go from here.
23 July 1998: Are you the proud possessor of a piece of expensive third-party software? Then odds are you have been stiffed, and it is a safe bet to say the experience was not pleasant or cheap.
As the IT outsourcing market matures, organisations are changing the way they interact with suppliers and the type of deals they make. Miya Knights looks at the road ahead for outsourcing
Managing effective relationships with IT suppliers is the core theme of a conference this spring organised by the Strategic Supplier Relationships Group (SSRG), a consortium of 11 user groups founded last year.
Companies that pay attention to the small print in their ITsupply contracts are likely to benefit in the long run. There are key contractual areas that users should review to underpin the success of IT projects and avoid costly disputes.
The government's new IT strategy, to be announced later this year, will focus on beefing up Whitehall's handling of IT suppliers, according to documents seen by Computer Weekly.