Joomla! site syndication http://www.swingtide.com Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:54:23 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.swingtide.com/images/M_images/joomla_rss.png http://www.swingtide.com Joomla! site syndication http://www.swingtide.com/the-harmonization-of-sourcing-finance-and-technology.html For reasons that have very little to do with their current roles in the acquisition and administration of information technology, the three corporate disciplines of sourcing, finance and technology frequently find themselves as adversaries or working at cross purposes. Tue, 11 Jan 2011 17:02:40 +0100 http://www.swingtide.com/going-uphill-wounded-it-service-delivery-for-organizations-in-stress-and-transition.html “Nothin’ wounded goes uphill.”- Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old MenIn No Country for Old Men, the hunter, Llewelyn Moss, who is looking for the wounded survivor of a drug deal gone bad, scans the countryside and decides to ignore a rock ridge because, “Nothin’ wounded goes uphill…It just don’t happen.” Mon, 03 Jan 2011 16:46:57 +0100 http://www.swingtide.com/why-you-shouldnt-spell-it-without-cba.html The mundane cost-benefit analysis (CBA) is a much maligned and misunderstood tool. Its importance in the IT budgeting and project selection process is something everybody knows. But like so many things everybody knows, it suffers from a real lack of understanding. Mon, 20 Dec 2010 15:16:57 +0100 http://www.swingtide.com/are-you-trapped-in-your-small-outsourcing-deal.html Through our recent work with a number of clients who have outsourcing transactions with $15M or less in annual charges, we are finding a disturbing economic reality.There is no way out. Wed, 22 Jul 2009 10:53:43 +0100 http://www.swingtide.com/leo-apotheker-and-the-future-of-business-technology-business-operations-in-the-brave-new-world.html A civilization without instrumentalities? Incredible! -Warren Stevens in “Forbidden Planet”In a recent Charlie Rose with the topic of IT in the period of financial crisis, Rose asked Leo Apotheker of SAP how they will be able to maintain their market share in, say 5 years, when the IT world is so well known for massive reversals and rapid irrelevancies. Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:28:29 +0100 http://www.swingtide.com/the-aftermath-of-the-satyam-problem-what-should-you-do.html Satyam CFO is now on the same list of Google top searches as Windows Beta 7 download and Stephanie Antes (a sexy stripper who the IRS is pursuing because she failed to report her tips). That tells you all you need to know about the level of concern in the IT community about the Indian outsourcer’s problems. There is a lot of worry about the impact on Satyam customers in particular, and on offshoring in general. Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:22:21 +0100 http://www.swingtide.com/it-outsourcing-in-straitened-times.html Companies outsource IT functions to save money. The savings – whether they are a result of lower staff costs, lower application costs, or something else – always come at a price. In stable times the cost-benefit analysis that weighs benefits against drawbacks is difficult but relatively straightforward, and the business case can ultimately be made with confidence. But how reliable can the micro business case be in a world where practically every macro financial assumption a business makes is spinning wildly out of control? Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:58:33 +0100 http://www.swingtide.com/transitioning-out-of-transition-services-agreements.html Spin-offs and other newborn corporate entities often enter the world with the security blanket of a Transition Services Agreement (TSA) – a promise by the ex-parent to take care of administrative things like IT, payroll, billing, and HR as the new entity learns how to stand on its own two feet and/or transitions to the services of its new parent company. These agreements are cast for what appears to the parties to be a reasonable amount time – whatever is deemed required to support the completion of the transition. Commonly they extend from around six months to two years. Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:16:36 +0100