Outsource Magazine Issue 34 - (Page 68)
ROUNDTABLE
IS INFRASTRUCTURE
NECESSARY?
In November, Outsource co-hosted a breakfast roundtable with IBM,
addressing the question "Is Infrastructure Necessary?" This intentionally
provocative title proved to be the inspiration for a very wide-ranging
discussion; the attendees - comprising senior IT professionals from a
broad sweep of verticals and differently sized businesses and public sector
organisations - were all generally in agreement that infrastructure of some kind
was of course vital, but the nature of that infrastructure, its composition and who
should bear the responsibility for managing it, were all open to debate.
O
utsource editor Jamie
Liddell, chairing the
discussion, opened by
inviting the participants
to address the question of
whether or not they thought it was even
possible, considering the complexity of the
technology available, to keep infrastructure
in-house. A delineation was quickly drawn
between network and connectivity, on
the one hand, and a broader definition of
infrastructure including cloud capability
- and within that broader definition, while
the organisations represented at the table
had taken a variety of different approaches
to what is kept internally and what is
outsourced, a general consensus was
reached that a great deal of activity is bound
to be transferred to third-party operation
either as a result of cost parameters or as
a consequence of the organisation's desire
to focus upon core competencies (though,
again, there were a number of different
definitions as to what comprises "core").
One of the guests - working for a major
UK retailer - summed it up thus: "For us
it's a question of 'can we make it add up?'
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"I believe in infrastructure." - Mick Cornett
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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Outsource Magazine Issue 34
Challenges and Champions
Outsourcing in a Troubled Economic Environment
Richard Jones
High Stakes
In Transition
The Bigger Picture
Numbers, Numbers Everywhere...
NOA Round-Up
Struggling To Get Through?
International Commercial Disputes In Outsourcing Agreements
Is Infrastructure Necessary?
Global Freelance Platforms Grow Up
Trumping Price – Only with Best value
Kerry Hallard
Technology Investment in 2014
Water Will Always Find A Way
The Right Time Is Now
You, Robot?
The Legal View
Top Ten
NelsonHall Round-Up
Online Round-Up
The Deal Doctor
Inside Source
The Last Word
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