Harvey also hinted that the latest round of jobs moving offshore will not be the last and said that over the course of 2004 Aviva will continue to assess what future application offshore operations could have to other parts of its business.
Chuck Coletta, senior partner in the consulting group at CSC, has developed a PMO maturity model that shows how PMOs develop in terms of effectiveness. All of this takes a financial and cultural effort and developing a PMO with sufficient maturity...
But Ian Cohen, IT director at the Financial Times, said: "Competitive pricing of Unix environments, particularly with the emergence of Fujitsu as a highly credible alternative to Sun, combined with the growing maturity of virtualisation...
Financial concepts such as return on investment or total cost of ownership are commonly used to justify IT investments but are less useful in the public sector which also relies on qualitative assessments of improvements to service delivery, as...
Conflicting priorities, competitive pressures and even corporate politics all conspire to push the goal of service-centric IT ever further into the future. As for smaller companies, they are often far too busy getting on with their business...
But not everyone in the public sector is entirely convinced by the value for money arguments put forward to justify the move towards shared services. Among Steel's priorities at the moment are convergence, virtualisation, extending the council's...