It's not cloud nor out-sourcing, but many banks in Japan went into M&A and integrated their IT.
With system integration from M&A coming to an end soon, it's probably time to start thinking of efficiencies. How is it in other countries? H.Ozawa 2009/5/10 Michael Poulin <[email protected]> > > > fight back, fight back, fight back and never give up! > - Michael > > ------------------------------ > *From:* mikomatsumura <[email protected]> > *To:* [email protected] > *Sent:* Saturday, May 9, 2009 12:26:37 AM > *Subject:* [service-orientated-architecture] Re: [ZapFlash] Preventing the > Demise of the IT Department > > I'm always amused by how naive some IT people are about the agendas of > various groups within the IT ecosystem. > > I think it's because IT people have a natural inclination to think of the > problem from a technical perspective- -and thus think of the problem as one > of (as Mr. Spock would say) "pure logic". > > Well, if you look at the large cost inefficiencies in IT, you can see how > individual risks are being mitigated while Enterprise risk is sometimes > increased--there are always these amazing and expensive large scale IT > failures within which individual CYA (Cover Your umm Butt) behavior > contributed significantly to raising the risk for the whole shooting match. > > In any event, I'm always amazed when internal IT people dont realize that > their jobs are likely to be wholesale outsourced to big IT services > companies/vendors and how little they understand the need to fight back. > > My 2 cents, > Miko > > > >
