Author: Peter Bendor-Samuel

Why Is Cloud Migration Reversing from Public to on-Premises Private Clouds? | Blog

August 10, 2021

Increasingly this year, we see many companies that aggressively migrated their work from on-premises clouds looking to move work back to on-premises and private clouds. The mindset that the public cloud saves money because a company only pays for what it uses is just theoretical and really an illusion. Realistically, companies tend to buy capacity rather than actual time used. Thus, companies are in a take-or-pay situation like the economics of a private cloud or on-premises solution.

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Choose Third-party Service Providers Based on Relevance and Differentiation | Blog

July 26, 2021

When you evaluate potential third-party service providers, you want to assess them across dimensions that allow your company to take action. Which providers should you give more work to? Which ones should be strategic partners? There simply are too many variables to consider. At Everest Group, we considered this problem and found none of the traditional vectors to be completely satisfactory. We then pushed further to understand the dimensions a company should evaluate in this decision, and this blog explains the best technique.

Managing Risks in Third-party Services Is Changing | Blog

July 19, 2021

Digital transformation is accelerating as we come out of the COVID-19 pandemic, with more and more companies starting to achieve tangible and meaningful business results. Companies are also undertaking the grand adventure of implementing new operating models that offer better competitive positioning and a lower cost to serve. In addition, we now face an acute talent shortage, and companies must shift their focus away from controlling or cutting costs to instead focus on building an assured supply of the necessary talent. As a result, increasingly, focusing on risk is more important than focusing on profits.

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Implications of Bringing Employees Back to the Office | Blog

July 13, 2021

In my recent conversations with Fortune 500 CEOs and other senior leaders of large enterprises, some report their workforce is already starting to shift back to the office from the prior work-from-home model in place during the COVID-19 pandemic. Most state they want their workforce fully back in the office instead of working from home by September. As your company determines its upcoming model for where employees work, you need to keep in mind there are significant implications to the decision.

How Long Will the Acute Talent Shortage Last? | Blog

July 6, 2021

Companies now face an acute talent shortage, particularly for digital skills. As I described in my recent blog, this talent shortage means companies must now pay a lot more for new talent and pay more for existing talent to keep them from leaving. Consequently, it will bust corporate budgets for 2021, and it is already causing a boom in offshoring. Company executives now ask me whether I believe this will turn out to be a short-term imbalance between supply and demand or if secular forces at play that will make the talent shortage a much longer-term issue.

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Acute Talent Shortage Set to Break Budgets | Blog

June 28, 2021

Companies that create annual budgets will find their 2021 budget busted because of the rapidly increasing rise in the price of talent – both for internal employees and for talent provided by third-party service providers. Even the wage situation six months ago is significantly different from now, as are the chances for hiring and retaining the necessary talent to meet business needs. What should your company expect, and how can you manage this situation?

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How Persistent Teams Improve Productivity in IT | Blog

June 21, 2021

Every company wants to create new value for competitive advantage. One component of value is hyperproductivity. In the past, I blogged about eight levers that help achieve hyperproductivity; and I have observed more than one company achieve a 350% productivity improvement in a year using these levers. I now want to focus on one of those companies and key strategies the CIO used to produce the outcome.

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Essentials for Increasing IT Team Productivity | Blog

June 15, 2021

Do you know that some software development teams have improved their productivity by 100-200% in a year, and some even by 350%? Most companies complain that their IT teams do not operate quickly enough and/or do not meet business needs. I blogged in the past about how to drive dramatic productivity improvements. But as I explained in that blog, most companies take an ineffective approach that will not yield significant improvements. That is nothing but a hopeless journey. So, how can your company get IT teams to run fast and dramatically improve productivity while meeting business needs?

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