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Being a passionate football fan, I was very interested to learn about the bidding process for hosting the 2018 FIFA World Cup, especially as England was in the running. Sadly England did not win the bid, however all is not yet lost. With the recent allegations against Qatar, the 2022 bidding process could be about to start all over again.

As a sourcing consultant, as well as someone that has previously held the highest level of coaching award in the FA, it has now dawned on me how very similar the FIFA’s bidding process is to organisations looking for their perfect sourcing partner. Let me show you…

Are you excited about Cloud? I’m not and here’s my reasons why.

The other week, during a discussion with a client, I was described as a ‘veteran of the IT industry’. Now heading towards my mid 40’s, I was unsure whether to take this as a compliment reflecting my knowledge, or as an indicator that the years of working in the industry had taken its toll on my once youthful looks.  It was at this given point that it struck me, “maybe my ‘youth-fading’ knowledge and experience would be of interest to a wider audience”.

Maintaining a mutually beneficial contract throughout the full term, once dissatisfaction with the supplier is experienced, can be a challenge and often past the point of recovery. The recurrent reason for this is the stage at which the contract is brought in. Concerns usually fester long before they are raised.

If you type ‘distressed relationship management’ into a search engine, the result is 1,330,000 web pages returned in a very impressive 0.24 seconds. But does this apply to outsourcing relationships; are there really that many distressed relationships and, if so, why is this happening?

In response to growing CIO concerns about multi-sourcing and service integration and management (SIAM), Quantum Plus sponsored CIO Connect to carry out a survey to ascertain the current thinking and view point on multi-sourcing and SIAM. A six month research project was undertaken with thirty leading IT executives and twenty IT vendors.