7 key considerations for sourcing your next IT project

We’ve all had problems with stability and scale … and costs. The vision is in place, and the current state is understood. The “simple” next stage should be: “Let’s source the next step.” It should be this simple, but it never seems to work that way. The world buys almost everything from Amazon with “one-Click Ordering,” customer reviews are easy to find, and it’s easy to compare prices from various vendors, YET none of this actually happens in the IT world.

Sourcing should flow naturally from your efforts at Solution Design. Existing assets should be understood, the vision clearly articulated, and your resulting Sourcing efforts should naturally flow. If this doesn’t happen, opportunities for disconnects between vision and reality can quickly multiply. This disconnect should be prevented by all of the tools delivered to consumers today, but at a scale that makes it Enterprise-ready.

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