Latest Consulting articles from ISG

How Managers Can Play a Key Role in Communicating Change

By Denise Austin Debbie Freeman

We’re living in an age of rapid, constant business change. Companies are either rushing ahead with new technology to beat competitors or playing catch up as fast as they can.

Categories: Consulting Organizational Change Management

Top 10 Reasons You Should Outsource Some Training and Its Development

By Jocelyn Hayes Chase Hawkins

As many companies look to shrink and stabilize their budgets, they may overlook an easy way to save money and still maintain effectiveness in the critical area of training.

Categories: Consulting Organizational Change Management

ISG Smartalks™ Podcast Episode 9: Blockchain – Disrupter or Distracter?

By Barry Matthews Alex-Paul Manders

Will blockchain transform the world as we know it?

Categories: Blockchain Consulting

The CIO’s Racing Form: IT Analytics for Better Decision-Making

By Kathy Rudy

Today’s CIO are challenged with innovating at a breakneck pace as they drive the digital agenda for their enterprise.

Categories: Consulting

Equipping an Energy Company for Transformation Success

ISG provides a large utility company with an effective communications framework and tools to support its ongoing transformational change.

Categories: Consulting Organizational Change Management

Deutsche Bahn: High speed into the cloud

ISG supports Deutsche Bahn AG with up-to-date tender and contract models for commissioning public cloud services compliant with European Union (E.U.) procurement law.

Categories: Consulting

Reimagining IT Sourcing for the Digital Age

By Bill Huber

In the 2020s, an enterprise’s speed and agility in acquiring digital capabilities will be the key determinants for its success.

Categories: Consulting

Measuring Software Asset Management and Why It Matters

By Michael Bonk

For many of the largest corporations in the world, the Software Asset Management (SAM) function is under-resourced and under-invested.

Categories: Consulting Software Advisory Services

Training an Agricultural Leader’s Workers for the Future

An ISG organizational change management (OCM) team helps one of the world’s largest providers of crop inputs and services to train its employees for new software and processes, enabling efficiencies and more buying power.

Categories: Consulting Organizational Change Management

Are You Getting the Most Out of Your Innovation Fund?

By Garry Stanis

Most outsourcing contracts come with fine print that stipulates extra resources for a so-called innovation fund.

Categories: Consulting

Delivering on the Promise – Sourcing Options for Agile Workloads in IT

By Bob Traughber Carol Wright

Agile software development promises faster idea-to-deployment times with continuous improvement in both speed and quality.

Categories: Consulting

Making IT Asset Management Work the Easy Way

By Howard Tuxworth

When IT asset management (ITAM) projects succeed, it’s because they capture and integrate data, not because of a particular ITAM tool.

Categories: Consulting Software Advisory Services

The Fallacy of Discounts in Software Negotiations

By Bill Huber

One of the most common questions enterprises ask about software spend is whether they should benchmark the discounts they receive from software publishers.

Categories: Consulting Software Advisory Services

Refining a Travel Giant’s TBM Model and Processes

ISG engages with a major international travel company to refine its technology business management (TBM) model and processes.

Categories: Consulting Organizational Change Management

Leading a Major U.S. Healthcare Provider through TBM Changes

An ISG Technology Business Management (TBM) team helps a multibillion-dollar managed-care organization assess a TBM model and processes for IT cost transparency.

Categories: Consulting Organizational Change Management

The RFP Process: 10 Ways It Has Changed in 10 Years

By Mike McMenamin Cindy Horner

While the traditional process of putting IT or business services out for request for proposal (RFP) is still the most well-worn – and dreaded – path for companies looking to partner with third-party sourcing providers, it isn’t as bad as it once was.

Categories: Consulting

The Success of All Types of Digital Transformation Depends on Organizational Change Management (OCM)

By Meredith Bilow

When companies want to make sure a new digital initiative goes well, they often bring in an organizational change management (OCM) team to help.

Categories: Consulting Organizational Change Management

Optimizing Your Sourcing Toolkit for Today’s Market

By Bill Duning John Stafford

The velocity of change in the market continues to accelerate – and it’s the IT and business leaders’ jobs to keep up.

Categories: Consulting

HR Business Process Outsourcing: A Changing Value Proposition

By Steven Resnick

It’s hard to believe it’s been 20 years since the first pioneering HR business process outsourcing (BPO) deals.

Categories: Consulting HR Technology & Delivery Services

Expectations of Your HCM SaaS Provider Solution: Part 1

By Mark Bray

Adoption of human capital management (HCM) software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions continues to rapidly expand across all types and sizes of HR organizations as leadership looks for ways to provide more efficient HR and payroll services.

Categories: Consulting HR Technology & Delivery Services