IT reorganization: 4 CIOs share expert advice
No one embarks on an IT reorganization for the fun of it, unless you’re a sadist.
The how of reorganization
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Should you buy enterprise applications from a startup?
The idea of buying an enterprise application from a startup company might sound like anathema to a CIO. But Chris Laping, CIO of restaurant chain Red Robin, based in Greenwood Village, Colo., disagrees. He believes we’re in the middle of a significant shift that favors startups — moving from huge applications with extensive features to task-based activities, inspired by the apps running on mobile devices.
Mirco Mueller concurs. He is an IT architect for St. Gallen, Switzerland-based Helvetia Swiss Life Insurance Co., which — having been founded in 1858 — is about as far from a startup as possible. He recently chose a SaaS tool from an unnamed startup over what he calls “a much more powerful but much more complex alternative. Its list of features is shorter than the feature list of the big companies, but in terms of agility, flexibility, ease of use and adjustable business model, it beat” all of its competitors.
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Source: Computer World