Blink - Managing Vendor Selection in Enterprise IT
Given the need to justify decisions, vendor selection almost always becomes an endless exercise in analysis-paralysis.

Given the need to justify decisions, vendor selection almost always becomes an endless exercise in analysis-paralysis.
One of the most important enduring challenges facing CITOs is making sure that the technology portfolio is aligned at all levels with the needs of the business.
Enterprise software of all types has too often been inflicted on individual workers by management, who received little assistance from the products in doing their jobs. Enterprise software created "work about work" for individual workers who used applications to track their work so that executives could see what was going on.
Imagine that wherever you are, in the office or in a remote location, you have all the information that you need to do your job literally at your fingertips, and that you know the same is true for everybody that you’re working with.
Are enterprise IT professionals, like automakers, just hammering pieces into place and ignoring underlying problems?
For most top talent, the work and the people are more crucial than the pay.
All of the information needed for a pruning analysis should be available as part of managing a well run IT shop.
The ability to function well in a team is becoming more important than technical brilliance.
IT leadership is becoming concerned that they can't find the talent they need, especially with the transition to mobile devices.
Consumerization is recognition that the footprint of IT has expanded beyond its typical boundaries.