Archive for October 2008

Growing Your Business with Strategic Information Technology Planning

As your business grows, your Information Technology needs grow apace, but too many companies fail to give IT the budgetary and planning priority it deserves.  Putting IT expenditures too far down the list of priorities will hamper your efficiency and stifle the growth of your business.

Think strategically about IT, focusing on where you want [...]

Local Outsourcing for Software Development

As of 2005, the U.S. Census Bureau ranked Kansas City 40th by population. A well known transportation, finance/banking, telecommunications, and agriculture hub—companies like Sprint, Kansas City Southern Railroad, Associated Grocers, and YRC Worldwide are based in Kansas City. The area is blessed with a wealth of talented software development teams either in “captivity” [...]

Custom Software: What do you do when you can’t afford it?

Try as we may…we can’t help everybody. Recently, we worked closely with a Kansas City company in the healthcare field that needed a custom software solution. After running through several options in terms of commercial, pre-built options, we came to the realization that there was indeed nothing available that did precisely what our customer needed. [...]

Outsourcing Overseas…Too Hard to Oversee?

RHT paid for a survey of 1,400 CIO’s and published some interesting results with respect to outsourcing software development work. The results came out earlier this year and confirmed the points we routinely make in discussions with clients, prospects, and others in our field.
The study found that a small percentage—around 5%—currently outsource overseas. Ninety percent [...]