Cadbury Schweppes is rolling out a strategy to reduce the risks major IT projects pose to the business by creating a library of reusable software components.
SMEs have allocated significant additional budget for IT security spending for the fourth quarter 2007 and into 2008, a survey of 2,800 IT managers has revealed.
The Royal Air Force has saved £300m after aerospace manufacturer BAE Systems installed a web-based enterprise resource planning system to speed the maintenance of Tornado aircraft at RAF Marham in Norfolk.
Counsellors do it, actors do it, and people advertising on handwritten cards in telephone boxes do it. Although role playing is not common in IT departments, if they were to do more of it, it might prevent the kind of situation that analyst Rob Enderle remembers occurring at an IT company several years ago.
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The issue
Mapping out the integration of two IT estates for a merger due diligence report
The question
Our company is researching a major acquisition. As part of due diligence, I have been asked to investigate the target company's IT to find out how compliant they are, and also to determine the cost of integrating their IT organisation with ours. How would you recommend I map out and execute this project?