Outsourcing
Optimize, 1/03: Does Outsourcing Yield Expected Cost Saving?
Yes. Businesses not only realize cost savings, but gains in quality and process as well. By Rick Omartian, information-technology CFO, The Guardian
No: The expected benefits of lower costs and reduced head count often turn out to be a short-term fix. By Paul Girard, senior manager of IT, General Dynamics Canada
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IT Services
The Wall Street Journal, 1/3/03: Computer-Consulting Industry Appears Ripe for Consolidation
By PETER LOFTUS
NEW YORK -- Mergers and acquisitions among computer-services companies made headlines in 2002, and even more unions could cross the tape in the new year.
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IT Management
Optimize, 1/03: Transforming IT
IT must change the way it operates to meet upcoming business challenges. Here is a seven-step transformational model
by Bruce Allen
The distinctions between corporate IT and other business units are dissolving as these groups increasingly share common goals, processes, and business models. This synthesis will require IT departments to undergo a major shift in how they view their roles and how they operate. The result will be no less than the transformation of corporate IT from a project-centric organization to a service-oriented environment.
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IT Spending
ZDNet, 1/3/03: IT rebound hopes take a bad bounce
By Alorie Gilbert
Businesses will remain frugal information technology buyers in 2003, according to a new survey published Thursday by investment firm Goldman Sachs.
The survey of 100 chief information officers at leading U.S. companies indicates that average business spending on computer hardware and software will decline by 1 percent this year compared with last year. Goldman Sachs conducted the survey in December, as most companies finalized their 2003 budgets.
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CIO, 1/1/03: CIOs to Spend Cautiously on Hardware and Software Upgrades in 2003
While the IT budget purse strings may not loosen considerably, investments that were postponed in 2002 will drive IT spending in the coming year.
BY LORRAINE COSGROVE WARE
Key IT initiatives for 2003 include new hardware and software, according to the December CIO Magazine Tech Poll. While the IT budget purse strings may not loosen considerably, investments that were postponed in 2002 will drive IT spending in the coming year.
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Utility Computing
Baseline, 12/3/02: Utility Computing
By Eileen Mullin
Primer: Overcapacity is out, efficiency is in. This is good news for those who advocate utility computing, where users pay only for the bandwidth and applications they actually use.
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Microsoft
News.com, 1/2/03: Outage disrupts Microsoft services
By Stefanie Olsen
Microsoft said late Thursday that problems with its .Net Passport servers briefly locked some subscribers out of their online accounts.
"Some users have been experiencing some intermittent problems with sign-in," said Adam Sohn, a Microsoft spokesman. "It was a networking issue with a small subset of accounts.”
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