Savvy IT executives recognise that successful turnarounds result from deliberate and well-executed steps that move sequentially from 'stabilise' to 'improve quality' to 'add value'. Ways in which executives spend their time - whether by luck or...
Andy Gallagher, head of consulting for Compass Management Consulting, said businesses should think twice before outsourcing first line support or the service desk function. Outsourcing IT can more than triple the cost of desktop PC support for...
Using business intelligence internally in the IT department to hone efficiencies can make an IT department more confident when it comes to building a case for IT with the rest of the business. Most departments will check the logs to see if there...
The five-year deal - worth 335m Norwegian Krone (£30m) - will see BT operating as the prime contractor and delivering a standardised global Itil-based platform, the global service desk for Aibel end users, as well as a global IP converged network...
Problems can be identified before they become critical and efficiencies can be garnered into greatly improved margins. Back-office processing activities are not a priority in the thoughts of a bank's business executives.
Paul Caris, CIO of Taylor Wimpey, said in a statement: "Our challenge, following the merger, was to provide a consistent IT service across the enlarged UK business and to deliver cost efficiencies through economies of scale.