Posted by Kevin Brady on Mon 21st December 2009 at 02:14 PM, Filed in Industry News
I recently picked up a survey by Equaterra (outsource advisors) which looked at the customer satisfaction levels of 160 organisations representing IT outsourcing contracts worth £10bn a year. The results put Capgemini and Cognizant at the top of the charts with 79% of IT decision makers surveyed, saying that they were happy with the services the two companies provided.
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Most firms in 2010 are predicting an increase in IT expenditure, most of this extra spend is to be focused on virtualisation, e-business and customer relationship management systems.
This prediction was made by a recent Accenture /Economist intelligence Unit survey of 500 executives in the US and Europe. The survey indicates that UK and Ireland are the most optimistic; with 63% of business leaders predicting IT spend increases during 2010.
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Posted by Kevin Brady on Sun 6th December 2009 at 06:06 PM, Filed in Industry News
I read today a post from Information Week saying that the IT job Market is perhaps on the mend. The view from the cliff is that there is expected a 3% increase in IT staffing during early 2010, with traditional jobs in networking, security, and application development most in demand.
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A close blogging buddy Carpefactum recently asked me to participate in a telephone conference call with a number of MBA students in the US. Whilst eating some wonderful apple pie at my local coffee shop I listed the possible questions I thought I might get asked, and formulated my answers to them. Within this list some ‘killer’ questions (often asked by newbie managers) leapt out at me, and right at the top was :-
How do you manage Projects? > $25 million? hah
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During a recent trip to the British Library I thought I would take a quick look at the recently published Standish CHAOS Survey to see if we are improving our project and programme delivery failure rates.
I have to say the results of my investigation were very positive:-
Note – In 2000 in the US, the spend on IT application development is approximately $250 billion and represents some 175000 projects. The average cost of a development project for a large company is $2,322,000; for a medium company, it is $1,331,000; and for a a small company, it is $434,000
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