Monthly Archive:: October 2021

Businesses relied on Cost-of-Living-Adjustment (COLA) clauses in contracts for many years. I first saw it used in 1984. In allowing adjustments when costs went up, COLA clauses served companies well for quite a while in contracts for third-party services. But that’s no longer the case. In fact, it’s completely unsuitable for today’s business situation.

The Agile manifesto, created 20 years ago, radically changed the software development process, introducing new principles and emphasizing breaking tasks down into bite-sized pieces to achieve more innovation and greater productivity. Although some companies improve productivity by 100-200% in a year in application development and maintenance, most still complain that their IT teams do

The engineering services market is now disrupting the IT services marketplace. The move to technology platforms and the requisite number of engineers causes a dilemma for CIOs. The need for engineering skills is growing faster than IT skills, and companies are investing more in the engineering function, somewhat at the expense of IT. CIOs