The Black Book of Outsourcing recent study to identify the projects that are being signed off by CIOs has shown that those with an ROI of six months are of most interest. While only 11% of respondents will immediately sign-off deals that span over two years.
When approaching outsourcing businesses need to assess their needs and where cuts can be made. Cost-reduction can be as simple as renegotiating SLAs, ensuring employees are using all applications and understand the benefits of these – further when introducing new technologies it is important to be aware that technical implementation may take just a few months but understanding the commercial business benefits of data is another kettle of fish.
Therefore speed is not necessarily the answer to ROI – however as the report suggests, ERP and Cloud Computing can provide immediate business benefit once installed. For long-term success – avoid another quick fix for a boom – all systems show be fully assessed to identify the opportunities for consolidation and collaboration.
During tough economic conditions there is always an element of risk that should be weighed against opportunities.
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
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