by Frank Ridder | April 11, 2011 | Comments Off
It’s out! We just published a spotlight on Cloud Sourcing. This research project includes 14 research notes covering the sourcing strategy and the contracting areas. The Cloud Sourcing Special Report discusses that exciting opportunities and costly challenges which buyers face considering services from the cloud. It is written for enterprises clients as well as service [...]
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by Frank Ridder | May 3, 2010 | 1 Comment
During 2009 and the beginning of 2010 – the economic rollercoaster – many organizations looked into their vendor relationships. Well they said they do, but in reality they only looked into the price they have to pay for the service they get. Goal: Getting the same for less, or worse, getting less for far less, [...]
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by Frank Ridder | February 12, 2010 | 1 Comment
There seems to be an inflation of terms in the sourcing world. Multisourcing, Cloudsourcing, Crowdsourcing, Global Sourcing, Active Sourcing, Best Sourcing, Right Sourcing and many more. Why not iSourcing – follwing the „i“ philosophy of Apple? According to the Apple keynote from 1998 (iMac launch) the „i“ stands for internet, individual, instruct, inform and inspire. [...]
by Frank Ridder | October 9, 2009 | Comments Off
I am currently touring across Europe with a presentation on “Balancing Speed & Risk in Outsourcing”, targeted to sourcing executives and sourcing vendors. I start my pitch with 2 questions. Number one: “Which of you believes that we have passed the deepest point of the economic crisis”. The results across Europe are quite diverse. While [...]
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by Frank Ridder | July 6, 2009 | Comments Off
The weather over here is brilliant – blue sky, sunny and very hot. That leads to clouds and a high risk of thunderstorms. The relation of both is very well known in the science world. But are there any parallels between cloud providers, sourcing and some key elements of thunderstorms? Lightning: It is interesting how [...]
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Category: Cloud sourcing Tags: Buying, Clouds, sourcing, Thunder
by Frank Ridder | May 27, 2009 | Comments Off
An article from EquaTerra executive Peter Iannone, published on equaterra.com recently caught my interest. I share the observation that many organizations currently try to speed up their outsourcing deal process to shorten the time to realise the benefits, especially in economically rough times. But what reads like a promotion for EquaTerra’s term “Speed Sourcing” can [...]
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by Frank Ridder | May 9, 2009 | 1 Comment
I am just back from a great week in Las Vegas, where we held our 2009 Sourcing Summit. Our presentations focused around practical Multisourcing – so did my numerous discussions with clients and vendors. With the availability of new options on the market (e.g. utility computing, cloud services) the complexity of sourcing increases as these [...]
Category: sourcing Tags: 2009, Cloud, multisourcing, practical, sourcing summit, utility
by Frank Ridder | April 27, 2009 | Comments Off
Crisis Times. When people suffer a crisis, they dream, speak and debate about the “Good Old Times”. And in fact, many of those discussions are happening right now. Also in IT? I guess there is another question which has to be answered first: What were the good old times in IT? Was it when everybody had [...]
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Category: sourcing Tags: CIO, job, sourcing; outsourcing; crisis; "good old times"
