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Navin Anand Of all the imperatives of digital transformation, the one success factor on which there is consensus is “enterprise-wide agility”. Agility not limited to IT services alone, but all enterprise services working together. Be it the “software development process” or the … Continue reading →
Published in Outsource Magazine As the media never tires of pointing out, the axis of world economic power is speedily shifting to the East, both in terms of working-age population and GDP. As many of our SME-sized IT service provider clients … Continue reading →
Published in ComputerWeekly The UK government’s recently announced cyber security threat information sharing partnership serves to underline the level of cyber risk organisations are facing. For those responsible for public and private sector IT services, it is of further concern … Continue reading →
Interview with ComputerWeekly In this video, Computer Weekly’s Cliff Saran speaks to Navin Anand, executive consultant at ImprovIT about where outsourcing is heading. He says: “From an enterprise perspective, I would like to see outsourcers take an active role in … Continue reading →
“Customer-centricity” is one of the biggest tags in the tag cloud to the right. My first post this year was “Is 2016 the Year for Customer-Focused IT?”. It’s a concept that I find vitally important to IT for the simple … Continue reading →
This excellent clip explains how negativity kills initiative and embeds a culture of no initiative in teams, organisations and even in families. A culture where everyone is afraid to be creative and try new ideas. The motto becomes – try … Continue reading →
Reblogged from Gigaom: For most of its time as an IT industry buzzword, big data has been focused on numbers and letters. Sales numbers, medical results, weather, sensor readings, tweets, news articles — all very different, but also all relatively … Continue reading →
Chronic underinvestment in IT is now more prevalent given the economic climate of the past few years. Excellent post on the critical concept of technical debt. Technical Debt – What it is and what to do about it.Filed under: Business … Continue reading →
Filed under: Business Technology, CIO, Enterprise Architecture, Global Management, Governance Tagged: Best practice, Business, Chief information officer, CIO, Continuous integration, Enterprise Architecture, Governance, Information technology, Leadersh…
Filed under: Business Technology, CIO Tagged: Business, Business value, Chief information officer, CIO, Enterprise Architecture, Global Management, IT Governance, Optimization, Outsourcing
Skills, best practice and business alignment mean outsourcing is here to stay (First published in ComputerworldUK) Is the IT offshoring trend we have seen over the last few decades now beginning to reverse whereby outsourcers and their customers are beginning … Continue reading →
In these challenging times it is more than ever crucial to separate the real trends from fads and fashions and to be able to identify the big issues, business agendas and threats and opportunities shaping business in 2013 and beyond … Continue reading →