Mitch Kenfield, KPMG LLP Managing Director, CIO Advisory For years, those of us who are leaders in information technology have carried forth the mantra, “run IT as a business.” But, for most of us, that really meant run IT as a cost center—manage your P&L, respond to requests, and keep the engine running. In the [...]
Steve Fortier, Principal, KPMG LLP Stan Lepeak, Global Research Director, KPMG LLP Advisory Organizations have many issues to consider and address as they embrace and expand cloud efforts. Saving money, accessing new software capabilities, and addressing security concerns are typically top on the list. Understanding taxation ramifications are not always top of mind or at [...]
Greg Bell, Principal, KPMG LLP Stan Lepeak, Global Research Director, KPMG LLP As we write this blog cybersecurity, “cyberterrorism,” and “cyberwar” are once again front page news. The US president has declared that the “cyber threat is one of the most serious economic and national security challenges we face as a nation” and that “America’s [...]
If venture capitalists walked through your door with a sack full of cash and asked you to clearly articulate the market value of your IT organization, what would you tell them? Would you talk about uptime, utilization, platforming, and cost savings? Or would you discuss tangible business metrics like market share, margin enhancement, return on capital, customer penetration, and product differentiation?
Stan Lepeak, Global Research Director, KPMG LLP Advisory Rick Wright, Global & US Cloud Enablement Program Leader, KPMG LLP KPMG recently released the 2013 edition of its annual cloud market research study. The first in a series of blogs examining key findings from this market study highlighted some of the hidden or at least unexpected [...]
Steve Salmon, Principal, KPMG in the UK Stan Lepeak, Global Research Director, KPMG LLP Advisory KPMG recently released the 2013 edition of its annual cloud market research study. Among the many findings, several that stood out highlighted that adopting and exploiting the potential of cloud is often not as quick, cheap, or easy as market [...]
By Atul Subbiah, Advisory Partner, KPMG LLP Operational transformation is a familiar issue in the business world. Costs keep going up, competition increases, and CIOs need to continually improve performance, enhance processes, and streamline their IT infrastructure. So what’s the “new news” about operational transformation today? More to the point, what do CIOs need to [...]
By Marc Snyder, Managing Director, KPMG Management Consulting, and Amin Qazi, Director, KPMG Management Consulting Think $12.3 billion annual overspend on commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) is a big wallop to U.S. companies’ pocketbooks? KPMG LLP (KPMG) believes the dollar amount may be considerably higher than that estimate, presented in independent research firm Opinion Matters’ “Software Efficiency [...]
Few enterprises world-wide can claim to have ‘mastered’ the skills of managing their Big Data challenges, yet many are looking to make dramatic increases in capital investment in business analytics. No doubt, managing Big Data is a mission-critical imperative for almost any organization operating in today’s business environment. And it is precisely because it is so integral that this increase [...]
Dave Brown, Principal, KPMG LLP With some organizations having up to 80 percent of their IT budget going to a third party, it’s all the more important to ensure that the price for outsourced service is fair and reasonable in comparison with the current market. CIOs also need to measure and continue to educate their [...]