Swingtide CIO monographs are brief, topical white papers written to explore IT business issues.

Outsourcing Health Checks and IT Sourcing Wellness explores common problems in outsourcing deals (failure to realize expected cost savings, hidden or opaque costs, service levels not achieved, contract imbalances, etc.) and describes a straightforward remediation process.

Assisting Acquisitions and Divestitures through IT Cost Transparency shows how commonly overlooked deal costs (splitting or integration of applications, infrastructure and data; third-party contract penalties; one-time or additional support costs; unabsorbed (or under-absorbed) overhead; and transition services costs) are best dealt with by creating IT cost transparency in anticipation of organizational change.

Incremental Steps to Achieve Radical IT Cost Containment describes typical responses to directives to cut IT costs and explains why some do far more harm than good. A stepwise approach to lasting IT cost containment is proposed, and a simple way to achieve it is explained.

Bringing Governance Upstream explains the advantages of pulling governance forward in the outsourcing deal process in order to give this critical oversight function a head start on assuring that anticipated outsourcing value is actually delivered.

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