Research studies - Archive

Apr 2012

"The mid-market CIO: Preparing for success, minimising failure"

New research from K2 Advisory:

"The mid-market CIO: Preparing for success, minimising failure"

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Key Findings

Apr 2011

Sourcing IT services "For the journey": The impact of Cloud on outsourcing

The CIO Brief

For those organisations already outsourcing aspects of their IT, the Cloud delivery model raises operational questions about how best to transition to this lower cost capability and which areas offer the most appropriate point from which to begin the migration.

Feb 2011

Shared service centres: the CIO’s role in scoping, supporting and managing them

The goal of shared services is to provide high quality, mission-critical, but non-core services to the organisation at lower cost and more efficiently than the organisation has previously provided for itself.

Jan 2011

The Chief Information Officer's role in enabling innovation

Despite the clear need for UK companies to innovate, the term “innovation” has become over-used. Indeed, as the economic performance of the UK went down, so it seems the use of the word “innovation” went up – almost as if it is some kind of rescue remedy that can be taken as and when needed.

Jul 2010

Digital Workplace Choices: Preparing for the 2020 Workplace

The role of the IT department has for the past number of years been largely centred around serving considerable numbers of staff through enterprise desktop services – where the emphasis is on standardisation and reducing total cost of ownership.

Apr 2010

Future advances in support services to the mid-market

Mid-sized organisations face the persistent challenge of sizing up the benefits versus the drawbacks of working with large, global IT services organisations.

The bottom line for many is that they are concerned they will simply be too small to be important enough to the vendor. Couple this with the desire of many smaller mid-sized firms to work with providers who are locally based, and the business prospects for mid-sized and mid-market focused suppliers look strong.

Mar 2010

Cloud Computing: A Step-Change for IT Services

This report assesses market perceptions of Cloud Computing and the way that this is changing the commercial context for IT Services engagements. It also explores the changing shape of the Cloud services market opportunity from 2010 – 2015.