Posting on Shell Blog by IT4me on Jun 11th, 2010 at 11:27 am
IT COST SAVING IDEA #317: STOP FIDDLING WITH THE SUPPLY SIDE.
If youre a CIO and youre bored, one of the things you might do is to fiddle with the supply side. Changing all your suppliers overnight makes a nice splash in the media and marks you out as a thrusting and dynamic leader.
Thus we learned a few years back that Shell IT now had just 4 Key Application Suppliers globally: IBM and WIPRO for the oily rag stuff (sourcing mainly from India) plus LOGICA and ACCENTURE to talk persuasively and rack up impressive dry-cleaning bills. They how I understood it, anyway.