COVID-19 Impact and Response Survey Results

BACKGROUND Clearly, COVID-19 has had a significant impact on the global economy over and above its impact on public health and on daily life. Supply chains have been affected and buyers and service providers around the globe have been compelled to develop short-term workarounds while they also consider how to build greater resiliency into their…

The Distributed Agile Paradox: How To Overcome The Challenges

By their very nature, the terms Distributed and Agile are seemingly incongruent as geographical and time-zone separation inhibit an agile way of working. So how do we find ourselves in this seemingly paradoxical dilemma of Distributed Agile? There are two forces at play. The first, driven by cost reduction and reduced time to market, is the widespread geographical distribution of software application development.…

Neo Group 2020 Case Study Report

Our client – a diversified enterprise with interests in healthcare technology and insurance services – faced a challenge and an opportunity. They needed to accelerate product development and leverage vendor capabilities to benefit from industry trends such as automation and other innovative developments, while also reducing operating costs and moving employees to higher value work. One of the main…

Agile Insourcing: Infographic

Megatrends such as Digital and Intelligent Automation are compelling CIOs, CTOs and Application leaders to rethink ownership and control of their (previously outsourced) application lifecycle especially in the cases of business critical and product applications. Consequently, a significant number of US based enterprises are bringing a portion of their outsourced work back into their internal…

What Good Third-Party Governance Looks Like: A Neo Point of View

We can all agree that ‘good’ governance is important. In the highly competitive, rapidly changing, increasingly complex and risky business environment in which enterprises operate today, the need for ‘good’ governance has never been more acute. The larger the organization, the more diversified its business lines, the more geographically dispersed its operational footprint, and the…

Agile Insourcing

Agile Insourcing: A Neo Point of View

Megatrends such as Digital and Intelligent Automation are compelling CIOs, CTOs and Application leaders to rethink ownership and control of their (previously outsourced) application lifecycle especially in the cases of business critical and product applications. Consequently, a significant number of US based enterprises are bringing a portion of their outsourced work back into their internal…