17/05/2022
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Study | 2022 Purchasing crisis & Recovery patterns
A combination of three factors is driving shortages and price increases across main industrial purchasing commodities.
Read moreIn the middle of the ongoing global pandemic due to COVID-19, with full macro-economic implications still barely imaginable - our discussions with IT and digitalization managers in the last weeks reveal 3 interesting lessons learnt moving forward across industries.
Coming from a period where – driven by media omnipresence of “Digital Transformation” – money was not a limiting factor when it came to technology budgets, we foresee a significant paradigm shift towards a more strict “value-for-money” way of managing IT and digitalization initiatives.
We condensed 5 implications for IT managers, CIOs and CDOs to consider – not only to be prepared for this “new normal”, but take advantage of the current situation and retake driver-seat position moving forward:
From our perspective COVID outperformer:
We at IAC have defined a strong framework to support companies in these challenges - with a straightforward 3-step approach to:
-Objectively identify IT cost optimization potential (“IT Cost Benchmark”),
-(Re-) prioritize current digitalization efforts in line with industry good-practices and operational needs (“Digital Health Check”),
-Update project portfolio to balance operational efficiency and future-readiness-enabling initiatives (“Technology Roadmap”).
If this sounds familiar, we are happy to share insights and experience from other initiatives with leading industry players.
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