Latest Consulting articles from ISG

What Do Next-gen Storage Services Look Like?

By Cindy LaChapelle

A true digital transformation is a matter of orchestrating multiple moving parts, with no single component transforming in isolation.

Categories: Consulting

Improving the Provider/Client Relationship with OCM and R360

ISG uses organizational change management (OCM) and an ISG Relationship360™ (R360) cycle to help an incumbent IT provider better understand and address the challenges it faces as it approaches contract renewal with a dissatisfied client.

Categories: Consulting Organizational Change Management

Aligning and Transforming a Healthcare System

ISG helps a university health system establish an organizational change management (OCM) program and design the governance structure for a system-wide enterprise resource planning (ERP) and human-resources (HR) software implementation.

Categories: Consulting Organizational Change Management

Managed Mobility Services: Options for the Most Efficient Support Structure

By John Cawyer

As mobile devices have proliferated across the corporate landscape, organizations are having to rethink the way they manage the mobility services environment across their corporate enterprise.

Categories: Consulting

Expectations of Your HCM SaaS Provider Solution: Part 2

By Mark Bray

This article explores some of the key technical and implementation considerations when selecting a HCM solution.

Categories: Consulting HR Technology & Transformation

The Future of Legacy Technology: Preparing for Escalating Software Costs

By Dave Goodman

Though the distributed computing model dominates nearly all of today’s enterprise IT environments, it’s hard to find an organization that doesn’t rely at least in some way on mainframe systems that were put in place many years ago.

Categories: Consulting Software Advisory Services

Smart Contracts: The Future of Contracting

By Jason Stading Patrick Heeks Mike Moore

Like any new technology, blockchain has evolved from an idea, to a market buzzword, and now to a real solution with applications in real business environments.

Categories: Blockchain Consulting

Data Visualization: What Story Does Your Data Tell?

By Doug Bunch

In business, knowledge is power – and data visualization helps turn data into knowledge.

Categories: Consulting

Maximizing Customer Centricity: Designing and Structuring IT Organizations for Product-Aligned Delivery

By Ola Chowning

Technology organizations are making the move to small, empowered, product-oriented teams.

Categories: Consulting

How Managers Can Play a Key Role in Communicating Change

By Denise Austin Debbie Freeman

We’re living in an age of rapid, constant business change. Companies are either rushing ahead with new technology to beat competitors or playing catch up as fast as they can.

Categories: Consulting Organizational Change Management

Top 10 Reasons You Should Outsource Some Training and Its Development

By Jocelyn Hayes Chase Hawkins

As many companies look to shrink and stabilize their budgets, they may overlook an easy way to save money and still maintain effectiveness in the critical area of training.

Categories: Consulting Organizational Change Management

ISG Imagine Your Future® Podcast Episode 9: Blockchain – Disrupter or Distracter?

By Barry Matthews Alex-Paul Manders

Will blockchain transform the world as we know it?

Categories: Blockchain Consulting Podcasts

The CIO’s Racing Form: IT Analytics for Better Decision-Making

By Kathy Rudy

Today’s CIO are challenged with innovating at a breakneck pace as they drive the digital agenda for their enterprise.

Categories: Consulting

Equipping an Energy Company for Transformation Success

ISG provides a large utility company with an effective communications framework and tools to support its ongoing transformational change.

Categories: Consulting Organizational Change Management

Deutsche Bahn: High speed into the cloud

ISG supports Deutsche Bahn AG with up-to-date tender and contract models for commissioning public cloud services compliant with European Union (E.U.) procurement law.

Categories: Consulting

Reimagining IT Sourcing for the Digital Age

By Bill Huber

In the 2020s, an enterprise’s speed and agility in acquiring digital capabilities will be the key determinants for its success.

Categories: Consulting

Measuring Software Asset Management and Why It Matters

For many of the largest corporations in the world, the Software Asset Management (SAM) function is under-resourced and under-invested.

Categories: Consulting Software Advisory Services

Training an Agricultural Leader’s Workers for the Future

An ISG organizational change management (OCM) team helps one of the world’s largest providers of crop inputs and services to train its employees for new software and processes, enabling efficiencies and more buying power.

Categories: Consulting Organizational Change Management

Are You Getting the Most Out of Your Innovation Fund?

By Garry Stanis

Most outsourcing contracts come with fine print that stipulates extra resources for a so-called innovation fund.

Categories: Consulting

Delivering on the Promise – Sourcing Options for Agile Workloads in IT

By Bob Traughber Carol Wright

Agile software development promises faster idea-to-deployment times with continuous improvement in both speed and quality.

Categories: Consulting