Rob Addy

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Nigel’s Back! (And this time it’s “Personnel”)

by Rob Addy  |  August 6, 2012  |  Submit a Comment

Most support providers suddenly get squeamish when I ask them what they are doing to actively reduce the internal IT operations labour requirement for their customers. They stare at their feet, start mumbling into their coffee cups and generally do anything to avoid making eye contact. I’m not saying they need a “Sack a Sys [...]

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Eating the Total Cost of Support Elephant – Part 1

by Rob Addy  |  April 6, 2012  |  5 Comments

I had a call last week with an organization that is spending 20 times as much as the support premium they are paying to their software provider for a full-time team of 18 sub-contractors to operate and manage the solution on a day to day basis. This 2000% cost uplift isn’t intended to cover incremental [...]

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