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Investigating Outsourcing
An insider\'s view on the issues, trends and controversies around outsourcing and IT services.
September 2011
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Offshore IT management market at threat from artificial intelligence
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 30 Sep 2011 -
The IT industry resembles life at the top in football and banking?
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 30 Sep 2011 -
NHS IT project is dead, but why do large IT projects fail? Part 5
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 30 Sep 2011
I have been meaning to write about a company called IPSoft for a while now, but have been waiting for a bit of a news hook. I was at Gartner's annual outsourcing event this week and noticed that ...
HP has offloaded another CEO and $13m in the process. The recently fired CEO Leo Apotheker pockets $7.2m in severance payment over the next 18 months. He will also receive $3.6m worth of stocks in ...
Following the news that the NHS National Project for IT has been dropped I have been posting some of the views I have recently had provided to me for an unrelated feature I am working on. The ...
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NHS IT project is dead, but why do large IT projects fail? Part 4
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 28 Sep 2011 -
How BP got its IT suppliers to collaborate and perform after massive vendor consolidation
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 27 Sep 2011 -
Is a group of MPs focusing on outsourcing and shared services a waste of time?
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 27 Sep 2011 -
Ten IT outsourcing game changers from Gartner
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 26 Sep 2011 -
NHS IT project is dead, but why do large IT projects fail? Part 3
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 26 Sep 2011 -
The NHS IT project is dead, but why do large IT projects so often fail? Part 2.
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 23 Sep 2011 -
Could government centralised IT project decision making hold back progress?
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 22 Sep 2011
Following the unsurprising news that the NHS National Project for IT has been dropped I thought it apt to blog some of the views I have recently had provided to me for an unrelated feature I am ...
Oil and Gas giant BP spent 65% of its $3bn annual IT budget with 3000 suppliers in 2008 but now it outsources to only seven and has reduced its annual IT budget by $800m as a result. Vital to the ...
Following the article I recently wrote about the new all-party parliamentary group set up to will look at how the public sector can get more out of outsourcing and shared services I have had quite ...
I attended Gartner's annual get together for the outsourcing community today and thought I would share with you the ten things or "game changers" in IT outsourcing, according to the analyst firm. I ...
Following the unsurprising news that the NHS National Project for IT has been dropped I thought it apt to blog some of the views I have recently had provided to me for an unrelated feature I am ...
The £11bn NHS IT project looks has been scrapped. By coincidence I have been doing the rounds recently asking industry experts why they think large IT projects fail. This is for a feature I am ...
The government's stance on IT projects might be preventing good ideas from becoming reality. The government, quite rightly, doesn't want to waste money on IT and is determined to ensure projects ...
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The world's biggest civilian IT project looks to have failed but is NHS IT failure a surprise?
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 22 Sep 2011 -
IT service providers are all over the cloud but lack of standard prices confuse customers
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 21 Sep 2011 -
Tier-two IT suppliers can differentiate
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 20 Sep 2011 -
Fujitsu averts big public sector strike in the eleventh hour, but still faces a strike today
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 19 Sep 2011 -
Accenture gets stung for $63m in US
- Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 15 Sep 2011
The £11bn NHS IT project looks set to be scrapped today. The Daily Mail broke the story here. By coincidence I have been doing the rounds recently asking industry experts why they think large IT ...
Find an IT service provider today that doesn't at least have a cloud offering on the way and you must be on another planet. IT service providers are getting to sell themselves all over again as the ...
There are lots of IT service providers out there. Whether they are onshore, offshore or nearshore they are options for any UK business. Tier ones are not the only answer, even for large corporates ...
Fujitsu averts big public sector strike in the eleventh hour still faces a strike todayFujitsu has forked out an inflation busting pay-rise to some staff working on government contracts across the ...
Accenture has agreed to pay the US department of justice $63.68m to end a five-year lawsuit.The allegation is that Accenture received benefits through agreements with technology suppliers, which ...