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Meeting your Management and Operational Challenges: the iCorp Department Store
The role of the iCorp Department Store is to combine the benefits of globalizing your access to IT applications while localizing your installation, operation, control and support. In doing so, we want to maximize your choices and minimize your risks.
We want to maximize your choice because a typical Fortune 500 firm needs to harness a few thousand applications. Each application, while it should bring about significant performance improvement to certain facets of your organization, needs your meticulous judgment and crafty introduction to make it stick. Over the course of a few decades of evolution, Hewlett Packard, for example, has incorporated 7000 applications into its organization fabric. In the case of IBM, they have weaved in about 8000. An outstanding mid-sized firm would needs about 400 to 500 applications to transform itself from an industrial into an intelligent Corporation.
There is thus a lot of shopping that you need to do. Each application, to be relevant and effective, has to be domain-specific, knowledge-intensive and insight-triggered. It is generally considered impossible for any one firm to be able to command all the expertise that will be required to professionally develop more than a few of all the applications that any organization requires. Hence, you are confronted with a bewildering variety of proposed solutions, from numerous developers coming from all corners of the world who are make performance claims that are of doubtful quality. Your searching cost for the right solution can be prohibitive.
This is the context around which ICO decided to advance the concept of iCorp Department Store. This is the first Applications Department Store to emerge from the Asia Pacific, if not the world.
The way the iCorp Department Stores works is as follows:
1) We want to maximize your choice. What have prevented a lot of globally brilliant solutions to be transplanted to Asia Pacific is because of the lack of local support and stable platform. With the iCorp Department Store arrangement in place, IBM will provide that stable platform. ICO will provide that local support.
2) We want to pre-source and pre-screen worldwide those that are brilliant, relevant, ecologically adaptable and operationally proven solutions and present them under one roof to you. Through our dedicated effort we want to reduce your searching cost and risk of misfit.
3) Because we are at the hub of multiple implementations and operational histories, the lessons, challenges and insights in application usage could be centralized at the ICO platform and could be shared. We hope that with this pooling of insights and possibilities we could come to aid your adoption decision and reduce your uncertainties and open your horizons.
You can find out what we have gathered under one roof for you by:
A) Visiting this site regularly. We will constantly update you with prospective developments, current trends and what are available in the application universe.
B) Participating in our regular seminars, conferences and other event formats.
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