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As companies focus on the core specialisms, most will look to the benefits of outsourcing some, if not all, of the IT services required. The benefits include: cost-efficient operations; delivery of IT services at lower cost through economies of scale; improvements in time-to-market of IT solutions; improvements in capability and quality of IT service delivery. This essential guide looks at the procedures needed to achieve all these benefits when contracting an outsourcing partner. It explains the benefits of a well thought-out and practical approach to selecting a partner; a partner, indeed, whose performance may make or break an organization s delivery to market. This book is a key reference guide to anyone procuring IT services and also to those who are responsible for maintaining the contract once signed. By covering all aspects of the Outsourcing contracting process, its guidance will help reduce risks and miscommunication. In addition its approach to the Request for Proposal (also known as Invitation to Tender) shows how clarity at this stage can deliver significant benefits as the services go live in the operational phase.
This pocket guide provides a quick reference to key concepts related to IT services procurement, as defined within the European Information Services Procurement Library (ISPL), an approach based on best practice derived from the European public and private sectors. Topics covered include: acquisition initiation and completion, strategy and planning, risk management, tendering, contract monitoring, and decision point planning.
Welcome to NLDB04, the Ninth International Conference on the Application of Natural Language to Information Systems, held at the University of Salford, UK d- ing June 23-25, 2004. NLDB04 follows on the success of previous conferences held since 1995. Early conferences then known as Application of Natural Language to Databases, hence the acronym NLDB, were used as a forum to discuss and disse- nate research on the integration of natural language and databases and were mainly concerned with natural language based queries, database modelling and user int- faces that facilitate access to information. The conference has since moved to enc- pass all aspects of Information Systems and Software Engi...
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, CAiSE'99 held in Heidelberg, Germany in June 1999. The 27 revised full papers presented together with 12 short research papers and two invited contributions were carefully selected from a total of 168 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on components, information systems management, method engineering, data warehouses, process modeling, CORBA and distributed information systems, workflow systems, heterogeneous databases, and information systems dynamics.
This book covers invariant probabilities for a large class of discrete-time homogeneous Markov processes known as Feller processes. These Feller processes appear in the study of iterated function systems with probabilities, convolution operators, and certain time series. From the reviews: "A very useful reference for researchers wishing to enter the area of stationary Markov processes both from a probabilistic and a dynamical point of view." --MONATSHEFTE FÜR MATHEMATIK
Het onderzoek naar de geschiedenis van het Kromme-Rijngebied staat al decennialang op een hoog niveau. Dit is onder meer te danken aan de onderzoeker en genealoog Kees van Schaik, die al 55 jaar nieuwsgierig en gepassioneerd onderzoek doet naar zijn geboortestreek en de mensen die daar wonen. Zijn nauwkeurige en geduldige onderzoek resulteerde in een aantal hoogwaardige publicaties. Kees heeft in de loop van de jaren vele collega-onderzoekers geïnspireerd en gemotiveerd. Ter gelegenheid van zijn 75ste verjaardag hebben bevriende onderzoekers hun krachten gebundeld en dit liber amicorum voor hem samengesteld. Zeventien auteurs hebben een artikel geschreven dat nieuw licht werpt op de rijke geschiedenis van het Kromme-Rijngebied en omstreken. Familieverhalen, de geschiedenis van de Wijkse tol en boerderij Atteveld in Odijk, de Jutphase ambachtsvrouwe Johanna van Rijn van Jutfaes en het trieste lot van jonge sodomieten uit Huis ter Heide; dit alles en meer passeert de revue. Ook genealogische fijnproevers en mensen die op zoek zijn naar nieuwe bronnen voor eigen onderzoek komen in dit boek aan hun trekken.
TC8 is one of IFIP's most active committees. This book focusses on information systems support for organisations looking particularly at business process reengineering, co-operation between organisations and support for improved work flow in organisations. These are topical subjects and will appeal to both business and research communities.
IT Outsourcing Part 2: Managing the Sourcing Contract covers all the processes for managing the contract, from the transition phase through to normal operational service and contract termination. Developed for IT practitioners as well as commercial and contract managers, this expert guide provides practical and concise advice on best practices in: a) good contract development as the foundation for contract management (especially service quality, performance measurement and communications); b) an appropriate governance framework; c) selecting the right individuals, with appropriate authority in key roles; d) the appropriate use of external expert advice; e) continuity of people involved in th...
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Dit boek beschrijft het GEA-model: General Enterprise Architecturing, met als kernwaarden: sturen op samenhang, strategisch stuurinstrument, bestuurlijke besluitvorming, organisatiebrede vormgeving, vraagstukgestuurde integrale oplossingen, open model en permanente synchronisatie. Achttien grote organisaties hebben een jaar gewerkt aan het ontwikkelen van deze visie op sturen op samenhang en twaalf organisaties hebben vervolgens gedurende twee jaar die visie doorontwikkeld naar een concreet strategisch stuurinstrument. Dit ontwikkelpad maakt dat GEA een instrument is geworden dat met beide benen op de grond staat. Dit boek doet verslag van de expeditie hoe tot dit nieuwe gedachtegoed is gekomen en legt in begrijpelijke taal uit hoe het instrument in elkaar zit en kan worden toegepast. Daarnaast wordt de toepassing toegelicht aan de hand van een aantal praktijksituaties.