I have been working in my company for 7 years and have seen major changes in all senses.
The company had mainly acquired technology as the business grew. However, two years ago top-management decided to buy an IT project to a consulting company which would cost several million dollars to let the company have a solid IT platform. The decision was made without taking the company’s CIO into account, mainly due to a transition in the position.
According to the documentation presented by the consultants to CEO, our company would have four different best of breed systems to cover all business needs integrated via EAI and published in a corporate portal.
At the beginning, the whole company believed this project would change our competitive position; however as time has passed by some of us who work in IT (including our current CIO), who were not taken into account in the top-mgmt decision, have come to the conclusion that the project will not meet its goals and it will even make our IT TCO and operational IT costs higher, without a tangible competitive advantage for the company.
We would like to show our CEO that the project has a minimal earned value and will not bring any of the benefits “sold” to the company. We would like to approach in a way that gives us as much objectivity as possible.
Has anyone been in a similar situation? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
