He focuses on how to shift from short-sighted "dumb sourcing" to a more advantageous version of outsourcing called smartsourcing. Delphi Group's Carl Frappaolo offers suggestions on preventing key loss of knowledge. "That is hot," he says, "and over time we're seeing an emergence of online analysis of the stream of real-time data. " Gradually, many users are starting to make the transition from software ownership to software usage," said Palmer.
How important was that report or Web site to a company's immediate differentiation?
The new business intelligence applies business analytics to fresh data and puts analysis in the hands of those who need it.
' At the risk of sounding trite our response would be, yes, exactly!
If so, you might want to read Smartsourcing, the latest book and blog by the prolific Thomas Koulopoulos, president and founder of Delphi Group, a Perot Systems company. by Hugh McKellar, commenting on Delphi Group's recent survey and white paper on innovation.
"It's how customers can move to a point where they have control over the software development lifecycle and how to assemble components.
Why did an important innovation get lost? Dawn Fitter interviews Delphi Group co-founder and executive vice president Carl Frappaolo and other experts on Knowledge Management. "Most organizations are still managing as if we were in the industrial era. Companies that had been behind in offering high-functionality search tools are coming up with better features. Koulopoulos provides a historical and forward roadmap for building strategic partnerships, sharing risk and optimizing innovation. In "Smartsourcing: Driving Innovation and Growth Through Outsourcing", Mr. Delphi Group director of research Hadley Reynolds provides a thoughtful analysis of the impact of IBM's strategy to deliver the next round of service oriented applications. the big news is that IBM is throwing its weight behind an infrastructure that can reduce the complexity of implementing analytic applications. Implementation of the new ecosystem and making sure it works will be another hurdle, he added. Dawn Fitter interviews Delphi Group co-founder and executive vice president Carl Frappaolo and other experts on Knowledge Management.
Those changes have ushered in a new set of opportunities and challenges.
"That is hot," he says, "and over time we're seeing an emergence of online analysis of the stream of real-time data. " The authors give suggestions for deciding which functions to outsource and which to keep. ," looks at the enterprise risk factors associated with digital communications and how leading financial services firms are now looking toward active approaches to reduce these risks.
All it takes is a couple of deals you'd never have gotten, or would have taken two to six months to get in touch with the right person, and social software pays for itself. For him, that means pushing much of what IT departments do today out to specialist companies.
Since then the market has shifted and the portal is really seen as infrastructure.
"It's how customers can move to a point where they have control over the software development lifecycle and how to assemble components. The companies have made no formal announcement, but Boston-based Delphi Group revealed the transaction in a research note.
If your top bookkeeper was out sick for a month, would someone else be able to pay the bills?
"CIOs need to know what's going on in this area because records management, search tools and databases will be running on their systems," says Frappaolo.
In "Smartsourcing: Driving Innovation and Growth Through Outsourcing", Mr.