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Virtual CIO & Technology Roadmap
Technology estates grow one decision at a time until nobody owns the whole. LABUSA Virtual CIO services assess your environment, set strategy and architecture direction, and deliver a governed roadmap you can fund....
What Happens After an AI Readiness Assessment?
The point of an assessment is not the report. It is the decisions the report lets you make, and the fact that you can explain them afterwards.
This is what the weeks after one actually look like, what you are holding at ...
What Is TIPS Cooperative Purchasing and How Does It Work?
A technology director works out in March that the network needs replacing before students return in August. The work is specialized, the district does not employ anyone who has done it at this scale, and the obvious answ...
How to Purchase IT Services Through a TIPS Contract
Most of the difficulty in buying professional services through a cooperative contract has nothing to do with the contract. The contract settles one question, which is whether a competitive procurement has already been ca...
TIPS IT Consulting Services: A Guide for Public Agencies
Public agencies buy IT consulting for reasons that have very little to do with a shortage of technical ability. Agency technology teams are frequently excellent. What they lack is a second person who has done this partic...
How School Districts Can Purchase IT Services Through TIPS
A school district runs an enterprise technology estate on a budget and a headcount that would embarrass a mid-sized company. Wireless in every classroom, thousands of devices in the hands of people who did not choose the...
IT Staff Augmentation for K-12 School Districts
Districts bring in outside technical people for two quite different reasons, and conflating them produces most of the disappointment associated with the model.
The first is cover. A network administrator resigns in Febru...
How Much Does TIPS 230601 Consulting Cost?
Most pages that answer this question do not answer it. This one can, because the rates under TIPS Contract 230601 are published as part of the award rather than quoted per customer.
Two things to understand before readin...
What to Look For in TIPS 230601 Consulting
An award tells you that a procurement happened. It does not tell you that the supplier who holds it is right for your project. Contract 230601 covers a broad range of work, several awarded vendors can quote the same requ...
TIPS 230601 Consulting Security and Risk
Procurement for IT consulting usually ends with a price and a scope. Neither describes what actually changes on the first day of work: somebody who does not work for you now holds a login, and possibly a badge, a network...