Off-The-Shelf IT Solutions

A practitioner's guide to selection and procurement

Martin Tate (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2015
BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT (Verlag)
978-1-78017-258-3 (ISBN)

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This practical book presents a proven decision-making process to help IT and business managers select the off-the-shelf software product that best fits the needs of their organisation. Suitable for all sectors, it offers a structured approach to managing stakeholders, requirements and candidate IT vendors.

This practical book presents a proven decision-making process to help IT and business managers select the off-the-shelf software product that best fits the needs of their organisation, whether in the commercial or public sector. Offering a structured approach to managing stakeholders, requirements and candidate IT vendors, this practical 'how-to' guide will help deliver a rigorous, defensible decision within an aggressive timescale.

Martin Tate is founder and principal consultant at Decision Evaluation Ltd, an IT consultancy that has specialised in selecting off-the-shelf solutions for over twenty years. A ‘poacher turned gamekeeper’, he formerly worked for an IT provider and was trained to sell software. BCS awarded him Chartered Fellow status for eminence in IT selection.

Introduction - purpose and principles

1 Introduction to off-the-shelf solutions

2 Talent management - supplier psychology

3 Initiation - shaping and authorising the project

4 Requirements analysis - capturing the organisationalneeds

5 Requirements document - documenting and agreeingrequirements

6 Trawling the marketplace - establishing the longlist

7 Assessing longlist candidates - selecting the shortlistusing the RFI

8 Detailed evaluation - assessing the shortlistedcandidates

9 Scoring - establishing degree of fit and ranking

10 Demonstrations - proving the best fit

11 Reference sites - real customer feedback

12 Contracts - negotiation and agreements

13 Implementation - preparing the ground

14 Viewpoints by theme

15 Concluding - recommendations and resources

Appendices

*OTSIS extras - available at http://www.decisionevaluation.co.uk/otsis-extras/

Verlagsort	Swindon
Sprache	englisch
Maße	170 x 244 mm
Themenwelt	Informatik ► Office Programme ► Outlook
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Finanz- / Wirtschaftsmathematik
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
ISBN-10	1-78017-258-3 / 1780172583
ISBN-13	978-1-78017-258-3 / 9781780172583
Zustand	Neuware