Digital Disputes
The implications for those seeking redress in disputed digital transformation programmes. Characteristics of digital transformation. Analysing failures to determine cause.
Digital Transformation and Disputes
What is digital transformation? Where do the risks lie that may result in disputes between customer and supplier?
Musings on what can be known, contracting, and consequences of the unknown.
Maximising Success with AI
How you maximise your chances of success with AI
Whose fault is it anyway? Why complex IT and outsourcing projects fail
Lee Gluyas and William Hooper review the common reasons for project failure and the steps which customers and suppliers (and those advising them) can take to minimise the risks. Complex IT and outsourcing projects are prone to delay. Some are abandoned in acrimony before completion. Whilst each failed project goes wrong for its own reasons,…
Asking the Right Questions
The formation of a good sourcing agreement relies on clear thinking and agreement between the parties on what is to be done, why and how. The market and technology are changing so rapidly that the next agreement is likely to bear little resemblance to the last. How to make sure we ask the right questions…
Contracting for Multi-Supplier DevOps
Just when multi-supplier (also known as SIAM) contracting is starting to get under control, DevOps emerges. This article looks at the interaction of the two for the design of retained and sourced IT operations. The implications for service contracts are profound and largely un-tested. The pages of management journals have been liberally sprinkled with fads…
Building Service Capability
The concept of “capability” has long been used in strategic analysis to establish defensible leadership. What are the capabilities that leading service providers and customers are establishing? How do you assess the difference between hype and substance? The bar of acceptable performance has always risen over time. Right now, the rate of change seems to…
A Contract to Transform
Weaknesses revealed by incidents of contract management of G4S and Serco have shocked the UK government. At a time that both public and private sectors depend ever more heavily on their service suppliers, what are the lessons to be drawn? In July 2013 serious malpractice was exposed in contracts for the electronic tagging of prisoners…
A Winning Approach Outshines the Competition
The quality of the approach taken has a strong influence on the success of any endeavour. Whilst some deliver with élan, others fail pitifully. The injection of constructive competition can stimulate energy and challenge participants to raise their game. The approach to a project or service captures the essence of the way in which the…
Business Models: A Compelling Story
Business models have been around for years in one form or another. How can you use them effectively to use support plans for business transformation or outsourcing? What is a Business Model? A Business model brings together a high-level view of the whole business that addresses: Why Construct a Business Model? The nature of business…