<\/a><\/p>\nLinking inputs, execution, cost of ownership and outcomes… Rich Lechner's automotive strategy<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Rich:<\/strong> I think, in some regards, we\u2019re seeing many of the same trends continue, but the emergence of several key forces: big data, the instrumentation of everything, the ability to analyze in real time all aspects of your interaction with your clients or of some of your business. The expectations of end consumers, based on the emergence of things like social and mobile. And Cloud as not only an important technology, but acting as an accelerator to the adoption of services. If you think back to client server computing two decades ago, it changed the way that IT capabilities were acquired by organizations. Prior to the emergence of client server, computing capability was sort of the exclusive domain of the IT organization, but now departments were able to acquire servers and storage and pc\u2019s to perform critical business functions independently and it fundamentally changed the way that IT was acquired and applied inside business. Cloud is having the same sort of transformative affect. Because it\u2019s allowing any individual or organization to acquire capability as a service, whether it be a process, an application or a bit of infrastructure as a service. Those forces coming together are creating this opportunity for significant transformation, but increasingly clients realize that they don\u2019t have all the capabilities they need to address these issues or the opportunities that these forces present. And so what\u2019s really changed is the acceleration of some of these traditional trends with these new forces.<\/p>\nPhil:<\/strong> Ok, so try and look out ten years from now… What do you think the world of sourcing is going to look like when we peer that far into the future based on everything you have lived through over the last few years?<\/span><\/p>\nRich:<\/strong> I noticed that said \u201csourcing\u201d which is great, because I think the idea of taking the \u201cout\u201d out of outsourcing will occur very rapidly and in fact it is already occurring. What I mean by that is that it will become much more prevalent for companies looking to acquire or source a key capability that they lack as opposed to shedding something that is noncore. And we are seeing that occur already and that will happen very rapidly. Secondly, I would say I think if you look ten years out, increasingly today we talk about infrastructure as a service or software as a service I think that you will see everything as a service. The idea of any capability, whether it be marketing insights or compute capacity or real time analytics of consumer behavior or what have you as a service will be the norm. Everything as a service will be what people will be sourcing. Again whether it be infrastructure, or application or processes, or industry insights, or marketplace insights, or technology.<\/p>\nPhil:<\/strong> Rich, it’s has been very refreshing to hear from somebody like you who has been so close to the industry for so long, so I do thank you for your time, and I look forward to sharing your thoughts very much with our readers.<\/span><\/p>\nRich:<\/strong> Thank You, Phil – a pleasure to share some thoughts and I hope your readers find the time to reads our new research paper.<\/p>\nRich Lechner (picture above) is Vice President for IBM’s Business and IT Services Sourcing. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rich Lechner is tasked with defining IBM's sourcing strategy (click to access his new research paper) When you have over…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,51,63,78,81,838,88,91,92,831,830],"tags":[303],"organization":[],"ppma_author":[19],"class_list":["post-1223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-process-outsourcing-bpo","category-cloud-computing","category-global-business-services","category-hfsresearch-com-homepage","category-it-outsourcing-it-services","category-kpo-analytics","category-outsourcing-heros","category-saas","category-security-and-risk","category-smac-and-big-data","category-sourcing-change","tag-enterprise-irregulars"],"yoast_head":"\n
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