Ensuring Your SI’s Delivery Stacks Up to Your Expectations
If you’ve ever managed a large digital transformation project, you know that there is the potential for a lot to go wrong. Transformational IT projects...
Read MoreManaging Multiple SI's? How to Avoid the Blame Game
When it comes to implementing any transformational initiative, companies are faced with two primary challenges: capacity and experience. How will they free up the internal...
Read More10 Ways to Get Value from Your System Integrator's Quality Review
Though the SI’s proposals focus on the benefits the client is intended to receive from these quality reviews, the SIs are actually realizing a large...
Read MoreSystem Integrator Risk Mitigation Processes Often Have the Opposite Effect
I am going to go on a bit of a rant here. I am getting fed up with all of the IT project horror stories...
Read MoreHow to Amplify the Value of Your System Integrator - Wish You Had a Manual?
During the system integrator (SI) vetting/bidding process for your digital transformation, you likely explored all of the competing SI’s capabilities and skills. As a result...
Read MoreSole Sourcing Negotiations: SI Tactics and CIO Countermeasures
How CIO’s can ensure they maintain control of their sole source negotiations The SI engagement playbook Make no mistake, your SI’s plan to secure a...
Read MoreDirty Little Secrets of your System Integrator: Why Companies Still Go Over Budget
Over the last 20 to 30 years, we continue to read about companies blowing their IT-enabled transformation budgets and schedules. At least one new study comes...
Read MoreA Hazardous Waste: An Overview of ICL’s Failed SAP Implementation
While there is no magic bullet for preventing an IT disaster, understanding why major transformational programs fail is a great first step to planning and...
Read MoreWhen is it Time to Say Goodbye to Accenture, Deloitte, IBM or KPMG?
Relationships with your System Integrator (SI) are two-sided. On your side, you enter the relationship knowing that it needs to end as quickly as possible,...
Read More5 Mistakes to Avoid When Developing a SOW With Accenture, Deloitte, and IBM
Most of you have heard the phrase that 90% of the manufacturing cost of a product is determined during product design. The same can be...
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