As the end of the year approaches, the predictions of what's to come in the next 12 months abound. Of course, those predictions are usually quickly forgotten and no one rushes to issue a scorecard for how they fared -- but that's not the case at CIO.com. This year, we're revisiting the 11 outsourcing trends we forecast for 2011 to find out which of them actually came to pass.
IT service providers are big on talk of innovation these daysÂexcept when it comes to their own sales practices. It seems as if many vendor sales teams have been pulling from the same bag of frustrating and ineffective tricks to try to win deals since the dawn of IT outsourcing.
The Australian Interactive Media Industry Association (AIMIA) has elected nine new board members.
Global financial institutions have identified emerging mobile platforms as a major revenue growth opportunity as they fight to counter threats from non-traditional sources.
Value-creating IT organisations however create tangible business value by engaging in much more than the basic non-negotiable IT operational activities. In addition to providing the IT infrastructure to the business, these organisations partner with the business and enable it to realise its objectives as per the strategic vision of the firm.
In a post-GFC world CIOs are looking to outsourcing to drive better value for money, but also want to focus on using IT to transform the business through innovation and productivity, a new survey has revealed.