That's one of the toughest questions for a CIO to answer when you're designing a road map for large-scale business transformations. You may be integrating a new organization, restructuring the current one, offshoring a portion of your workforce or converting to new technical platforms.
Whatever the project, you know that making the wrong decision could blow millions of dollars in capital investments and quite probably ruin your reputation as an IT leader. But with budget dollars especially limited nowadays, turning to a large management consultancy for strategic help is far less appealing. If you run a typical midsize to large IT organization, you likely have experience working with a mixture of offshore providers. They've invested heavily in higher-level CIO services and are clamoring to be considered as thought leaders.
