New Breed: Today’s CIO Must Manage Sourcing Portfolio Too
An insightful post by John Sloat on Information Week’s Web site uses the example of Australian airline Qantas (disclosure: a TPI client) to make the point that today’s information leaders need to be able to juggle their own homegrown projects with managing multiple, even overlapping, sourcing relations with outside vendors. You can read Sloat’s on-the-money post here: Information Week
Gone are the days when CIOs were judged solely on their ability to deliver and maintain new systems. Now the performance review measures whether the CIO can balance a technology strategy with a comprehensive “resourcing” plan to deliver the Three Cs: topflight Capabilities, desired Capacity and best Cost.
Few companies believe they can get all three without turning to outside providers, which is how CIOs took on the extra responsibility of managing a portfolio of external resources. Read the rest of this entry »
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