According to Gartner’s research published in April 2014, the worldwide ITO (Information technology Outsourcing) will consistently expand resulting in 5.9% compound annual growth rate from 2013 through 2018. Naturally, CIOs and ITPMs become the most important stakeholder in the decision to outsource their firm’s IT function. During the process of ITO, ITPMs prioritize their buying […]
Organizations, small and large alike, are focusing more and more on Enterprise Content Management initiatives to manage content chaos that pervades local drives, file shares, email systems and document stores. Every ECM initiative comes with its own set of challenges.
The IT consulting space (and in professional services in general) companies rely heavily on the consultants that represent them with a particular client. You are only as good as your consultant is on that given day. One key requirement in that is having the consultant take ownership of work. This means owning the client’s problems […]
CIOs or organizations and owners of small consulting firms are usually people of the same age group (education, interests etc.). Yet a comparison between them reveals some interesting patterns which in turn explain some of the conflicts that arise between them. In a corporate culture that extensively promotes outsourcing of IT to consulting firms both […]
There is something happening in the CIO world. The changes in roles & responsibilities that took supply chain managers, operations managers, and marketing managers by storm, have come to the shores of IT managers and CIOs. The old criteria of CIO performance used to be SLA enforcement & server up-time. The same is not true anymore. Here on, […]
A document Management system (similar to FileCenter’s document management software) allows organizations to store, search, track and process documents in a centralized and controlled manner. The system allows B2B companies to effectively manage their in-bound and out-bound documents that are previously unstructured. Document management that includes eDiscovery software, like Digital WarRoom, helps in the processing […]
B2B supply chains will keep expanding, given the enormous scale of niche suppliers entering into existing B2B supply chains. As the number of suppliers and customers of large B2B firms keep growing, so does the fragmentation of data that resides across the whole supply chain. This is where the integration of EDI will help you […]
Large consultancy firms are incubating new business models. Their aim is to compete for smaller projects at acceptable profits. It sounds alarming for the smaller consultancy firms. It in fact is. McKinsey Solutions, a smaller consultancy arm of McKinsey & Co. is selling its services to SMEs, essentially the target market of S&M consultancy firms. […]
The wholesale industry is divided into two main sectors, the durable and non-durable wholesale goods industry. SAP, a global company dealing in enterprise software, frames the main challenges of a wholesale supplier into three categories. Maintaining adequate inventory to meet demand Minimizing the cash dedicated in stock Maintaining a high service level To address the […]
A recent study by Queensland University of Technology researcher found that maintaining client-consultant relationship and time management are the most critical challenges faced by S&M consultancy firms. Consequently, marketing slips down the priority list of all partners. Six integrated marketing activities can bring your firm qualified leads, referrals & unsolicited inquires. Develop Marketing Goals & […]