AI Pyramid Conflict

Are you faced with questions like,
‘Consulting – Is it an Expense or an Investment?’
‘Strategy – Is it just a jargon or a savior?’
‘Roadmap – Is it on track as planned? How do I do a health check?’
Corporates over a period of time had invested a lot of money in various tools and technologies to cater to the needs of various departments within their organization. This has now grown into a mammoth and has started to eat into their profits through licensing costs, maintenance costs, etc. Sometimes one has lost count of the number of application in the landscape, has no clue what a particular application is for, who is using it and why it was needed in the first place? The impact of this has become even more evident especially during the recession period as the IT budgets became slim and expectations from the top management to cut costs increased. The CIO now needs to strategize the IT spends to manage the cost within the budget. This paper tries to address where the CIO can start and how to leverage the services provided by various IT service providers.

Read on to find out how the recession hit industries can leverage the consulting arm of the IT service providers to cut costs and at the same time get a futuristic view of their architecture / approach.