Standard Operating Environment III

Latest news indicated that NCS is leading tech bigwigs in SOE bid. Before this news, I told Sunshine, that I foresee NCS will be in the forefront of the race. Why? Because under the existing bulk tender, NCS has the lion share of 60-70% of the market.

The NCS-led consortium surprisingly partnering IT giant IBM as its exclusive Tier 1 partner, which means that IBM will not be a part of any other consortium vying for the SOE tender. Singtel is its parent company, Microsoft and Cisco are winners no matter which consortium wins. But IBM? Because IBM has been promoting its managed services aggressively and trying to eat into NCS turf. Now, they are partners holding hands, like a "happy couple"?

GLCs are a boon or bane in Singapore? GLCs are getting more aggressive to boost their bottomlines, SMEs are always struggling to keep up in order to compete with them because they have deeper pockets. They have the top brains in the management team, can easily get consultants to work out with better procedures and system. SMEs have to stay nimble on the foot, need to be more gutsy and makes decisions fast, yet careful not to over extend ourselves and get blogged down with cashflow...

Reference: News from Singapore Business Times