Blogs
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
What is relationship management?
by Andrew Humphries and Linda McComie, SCCI Ltd
Management of relationships is vital to the well being of the organisation and its up-stream and down-stream partners. The most valuable of all business relationships are likely to be those that are collaborative.
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Monday, May 14, 2012
Outsourcing Software Licence Compliance
by BCS Ltd
It is generally accepted that the global financial crisis is affecting the revenues of all commercial companies, including all the largest software authors. Consequently, industry analysts predict a significant increase in vendor driven audits during 2012. So what are the risks of non-compliance and how do customers find themselves in a position where they are being reported as under licenced?
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Security scanning: the case for outsourcing
by Thomas McDonald, Associate Director at NCC Group
Hacking and the issues that surround it are rarely out of the news at the moment – it’s a very current and pressing problem. Cyber crime has never been more of a threat, with websites and organisations great and small all at risk.
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Wednesday, May 09, 2012
Have You BCDR’d Your Business?
by Denis Martin, CTO NaviSite
Prioritising the IT and technology needs of a business, while ensuring the IT budget is being used effectively, is arguably the biggest challenge facing CIOs and CTOs today.
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Outsourcing trends
by Maxine Park, DictateNow
Business process outsourcing (BPO) has grown rapidly over recent years. As technology continues to develop and businesses continue to seek out faster, cheaper and more efficient ways of doing things, so outsourcing providers evolve their offering to match
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Learning to share: best practice for the implementation of shared services
by Mathew Wells, Managing Consultant at ICT consultancy Hudson & Yorke
‘Shared services’ typically refers to the provision of a shared business function by a single team where it was previously handled by parallel teams in separate organisations, cost savings sometimes take years to be recognised, and implementation isn’t always straightforward.
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Thursday, May 03, 2012
Taking the Agile approach
by Iain Levein, Group Director of Comet Global Consulting
Agile. Look it up in a dictionary and you’ll find it means ‘able to move quickly and easily, able to think and understand quickly.’ Try a thesaurus, and you’ll see ‘alert, lively, and energetic’ as some alternative suggestions. When you’re implementing an IT programme or software update, you need a way of working that is all these things. You need the Agile approach.
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Wednesday, May 02, 2012
Offshore, onshore and in-house – the evolution of software testing
by David Hallam, director, NCC Group.
The vast majority of organisations across the globe heavily rely on software and applications to carry out their day-to-day operations. The smooth running of this software is something that cannot be taken for granted, especially when the consequences are considered.
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EDI and Digital Signatures - Data Confidentiality
by Nigel Taylor, Head of e-Invoicing, GXS
In this blog, I will focus on how effective EDI and digital signatures are at keeping your data secure
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Monday, April 30, 2012
Why Businesses should practice K.I.S.S.ing more often
by Felicity Bamber, sourcingfocus.com
Having recently attended an event and hearing some anecdotes about spotting holes and flaws within businesses and finding solutions to the problems, it occurred to me that quite often these problems need never have existed in the first place. Within all of the impressive business knowledge and jargon, ground breaking technologies, data, statistics and graphs and charts, there were two crucial ingredients missing: logic and a little common sense.
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