IT sourcing research refers to the process of gathering and analyzing information on the vendor landscape, market trends, and emerging technologies to support the development of an effective IT sourcing strategy. Effective IT sourcing research involves using a range of sources to gain insights into the vendor landscape, market trends, and emerging technologies, and to identify opportunities and risks associated with IT sourcing activities.
IT sourcing research typically includes the following key activities:
Effective IT sourcing research requires a deep understanding of the organization’s IT needs, as well as the vendor landscape and market trends. IT executives should ensure that the IT sourcing research is comprehensive, relevant, and that the insights developed are actionable.
The IT Sourcing Research category within the CIO Reference Library provides CIOs and other IT executives with a comprehensive set of resources that illustrate how to conduct effective IT sourcing research. This category includes a range of resources, such as articles, whitepapers, and case studies, that offer insights into different aspects of IT sourcing research, such as data gathering, data analysis, insights development, and recommendations. By leveraging these resources, CIOs and IT executives can gain a deeper understanding of how to conduct effective IT sourcing research and develop an effective IT sourcing strategy.
This research explored best practices in outsourcing governance and discovered that, as expected, structure is important but effective governance must be supplemented with a partnership view, the right attitude and behavior fostering partnerships. Good Read!
This research explored the key decision in sourcing: make, buy or make and buy. A structured make or buy decision analysis is presented identifying the factors affecting the decision with examples. Excellent Read! (300 pages)
This paper introduces a structured framework for the make or buy decision which is perhaps the foundation of strategic sourcing. Companies have choices when it comes to product design, engineering, and manufacturing – will two people faced with the same factors make the identical make or buy decision? Which decision under those circumstances be better for the company? Here is how you can tell.
This article discusses the processes, best practices, lessons learned and results from the procurement transformation shaping both commercial and not-for-profit organizations. The author applies these learning to develop strategic sourcing strategies and implement commodity strategies as an application of strategic sourcing.
This compendium of thought leadership articles, practitioner interviews, and market research highlights strategic sourcing trends in Europe and can be valuable for leaders engaged in implementing information technology, business process improvement and other sourcing activities.
This research report discusses how top companies use technology and partners to create a world class logistics capability.
This study focused on three common approaches to IT reorganization and resizing, as a result of outsourcing, and their impact on the retained IT workers. The authors use the concept of a "psychological contract" to highlight the issues that arise, and to provide guidelines to CIOs so they can manage them better.
This paper discusses the key learning/best practices, that lead to high performance outsourcing, gleaned from the masters i.e. executives who have been there, done that and can claim success in the world of outsourcing services! 
This study (thesis!) assesses the use of Carnegie Mellon’s eSourcing Capability Model for Client Organizations (eSCM-CL) framework in improving offshore outsourcing’s success.
Master the art of client-vendor communication in IT outsourcing projects.
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