Do It Yourself or Outsource
- Tom Collins, CIO Cookson Group, EMD
1. The Source of Strategy
Kevin Schick, Vice President, Strategic Initiatives
Viasoft
Tuesday, 2:00-2:50 p.m.
No single sourcing strategy is going to be effective for today's IS organizations. Companies need an approach that is flexible, creative, and most importantly, leverages internal resources. Many businesses today are finding that more than 50% of their overhead is tied into the labor involved in the programming and analysis of maintaining existing systems. Focusing on new development, therefore, has become a difficult task.
Insourcing is one approach we have found that focuses on optimizing existing resources for future initiatives. It provides better understanding of maintenance processes, helps free staff up for new initiatives to comply with business drivers, improves overall quality and assists in using insourcing and outsourcing strategies to their best advantage.
Key Issues:
- Learn approaches to leverage intetrnal resources
- Discuss how to effectively implement and manage sourcing strategies
- Decide when to use insourcing and outsourcing strategies
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Peter Iannone, Vice President, Eastern Region Project Leader
Technology Partners Inc.
Tuesday, 3:00-3:50 p.m.
There seems to be a trend growing to encourage outsourcing supplies to team together or form alliances. This session will discuss the complex outsourcing transactions which JP Morgan was involved in, from both the complexity of the technology environment and the approach of forming sourcing alliances to participating in the bidding process. Having been a part of the project from the inception, Mr. Iannone will share experiences in putting together the transaction as well as the do's and don'ts, and how you can do things different for the next time when dealing with multi-vendor bids.
Key Issues:
- Advantages to a multi-vendor approach
- Challenges of a multi-vendor approach
- When should this be considered and with how many suppliers
- How firms can avoid the difficulties in working with multiple outsourcing vendors in alliances both during bidding and in the ongoing outsourcing relationship
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Chris Millington, General Manager, Information Technology Services
Ameritech
Tuesday, 4:00-4:50 p.m.
Ameritech recently outsourced the mainframe, midrange and desktop environments. The value of metrics in regards to the decision and negotiating process will be discussed. This session will also explore Ameritech's decision making process and experiences with the outsourcing, insourcing and cosourcing of data centers, help desks, networks, and desktop computing.
Key Issues:
- Lessons learned
- Challenges of start-up
- Must haves to negotiate agreements
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Tom Collins, CIO
Cookson Group, EMD
Wednesday, 3:00-3:50 p.m.
Cookson Group, EMD discusses their decision between Do It Yourself deployments of intranet solutions and outsourcing them. This presentation will also reveal why they opted to outsource.
Key Issues:
- Developing the solution
- The decision to outsource
- Selecting a vendor, or the right combination of vendors
- Results
- Hotspots to watch for
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