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Why board members are the wrong people to decide IT vendors – Ryan Knapton 0

Posted on 14, December 2011

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If I had a dollar for every time I heard a vendor say, “I know the perfect solution, and I just happen to sell it!” I’d be a retired BA. Instead, I’m a practising BA and one of my responsibilities is to help businesses understand that not all vendors are all-seeing and all-knowing. Nik Gebhard recently spoke about vendors who “seem to be inordinately skilled at pulling the wool over business’ eyes”. These vendors have great sales pitches and get companies to invest vast sums of money in technologies that may not be the right fit for their organisation. The vendor throws [&hellip

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Project sponsors: Saving face or saving costs? – Nik Gebhard 0

Posted on 21, April 2011

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Project sponsors Saving face or saving costs

In today’s fast paced technology world it is common, if not mandatory, for financial institutions to replace legacy systems in order to gain competitive advantage. In my experience business stakeholders will often have decided on the technology before bringing an analyst or consultant on board. A lack of analysis from the onset means uninformed decisions and ultimately reputational risk if the wrong choice is made. Implementation projects that I have been involved in, have typically deferred the engaging of business analysts until project slippage has arisen. I’m not entirely sure whether this is a scapegoat tactic or a sincere attempt [&hellip

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