As enterprises ramp up their digital transformation initiatives, the strategic sourcing function faces the challenging task of establishing and orchestrating an IT services vendor portfolio that can help these companies fulfill their business objectives. This digital age sourcing model requires co-existence of distinct IT service provider roles to help enterprises balance multi-fold objectives such as risk management, modernization, and building capabilities across change, manage, and run initiatives. The underlying principle of this framework is that deriving business value from IT requires enterprises to have access to best-of-breed capabilities across a broad set of themes. As part of this shift, there is a need to look at the specialist ecosystem.

In this viewpoint, we highlight why specialists are important and how an increasing number of enterprises have realized the need for technological, functional/methodological, and industrial expertise to add value to business and technology transformation initiatives. We also cover the challenges associated with specialists that enterprises need to be aware of and provide a checklist of key metrics for evaluating and identifying the right specialist.

Scope

Industry: IT services

Geography: Global

Contents:

This report looks at:

• Need for evolved sourcing models
• Growing relevance of specialists
• Need to identify the right specialist
• Assessment of specialists – checklist

Membership(s)

Application Services

Banking Information Technology

Cloud & Infrastructure Services

Digital Services

Enterprise Platform Services (EPS)

Healthcare Payer and Provider Information Technology

Insurance Information Technology

Life Sciences Information Technology