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IT Sourcing Sorcerer
by Proudly presented by Eclectic365 IT Consulting - Your Trusted IT Advisors 🤝☁️
Work in IT? You will need to master sourcing management. These podcasts, each less than five minutes, will help you get there. With over 20,000 downloads, it was time to turn the ebooks into podcasts. Enjoy the listen 🎧 👂 and get great insights into IT Sourcing Management from the one and only, the IT Sourcing Sorcerer. 🧙♂️
Episodes
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EZ & AI - Lessons Learnt - Introduction
Join Ernie Zibert, the IT Sourcing Sorcerer, and his AI co-host, Tina, for EZ & AI – Lessons Learnt. In this introduction, they share practical lessons on better prompts, checking answers and keeping human judgement in charge—with candid insights and friendly banter. Two perspectives. Plenty of...
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2026 Work Trend Index
A four-minute summary of Microsoft's 2026 Work Trend Index Annual Report. Enjoy the listen. Proudly constructed by Eclectic365 - Your Trusted IT Advisors.
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AI & Idempotence
When AI moves from answering questions to taking actions, the governance question changes from ‘Is the answer right?’ to ‘What happens if AI does it twice?’
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E365 IT Services explained - vCIO
A virtual CIO (vCIO) provides access to executive-leveltechnology leadership on demand. You gain strategic advice, governance, commercial expertise, supplier management, and technology planning—all without carrying the full cost of a permanent executive. Via a vCIO, organisations can gain...
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The SDM Formula
Are your IT services delivering real business value… or just keeping the lights on? In this episode of the IT Sourcing Sorcerer Podcast, I break down the core ideas from my ebook “The SDM Formula”—and why Service Delivery Management is the missing link in many organisations. 💡 We explore: ✅ How…
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Microsoft Work Trend Index 2025 Summary
53% of leaders say productivity must increase, but 80% of the global workforce says they’re lacking the time or energy to do their work. The first Frontier Firms are emerging, and 71% of workers at these firms say their company is thriving, compared to just 37% globally. Enjoy the listen.
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What’s wrong with outsourcing?
“90% of Outsourcing Deals Lose Over Half Their Value—Here’s Why” According to Ernie Zibert’s research, the problem isn’t outsourcing itself—it’s how we manage it. 📊 A survey of 100+ IT professionals revealed: 50% cite low customer satisfaction as the biggest issue 90% believe 60% or more of...
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Size Doesn’t Matter: The Truth About IT Sourcing Deals
What’s the real difference between a $1 Million and a $1 Billion IT sourcing deal? Surprisingly… almost nothing. Whether you’re negotiating a small agreement or a mega-deal, the fundamentals remain the same: ✅ Contract clarity ✅Performance accountability (SLAs) ✅Transparent invoicing ✅Demand...
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The 5 Dimensions of Sourcing Value
Are you still measuring outsourcing success by cost alone? 💰🤑💲 That’s a trap many organizations fall into—and it leads to missed opportunities, unhappy customers, and stalled innovation. In my latest piece, I break down the Five Dimensions of Sourcing Value—a practical model that helps you: ✔...
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The Science of Sourcing Governance
Unlock the Science Behind Sourcing Governance 🚀 Most organizations spend 70–80% of their IT budgets just “keeping the lights on”—and the same inefficiency plagues sourcing governance. The result? Strategic forums are often cosmetic, while operational meetings dominate. This imbalance costs...
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Sourcing's 3 Fates
Sourcing Success: The Three Fates Every IT Leader Must Master Enjoy the listen. 🎧👂 🔮 Are your sourcing strategies guided by fate—or by design? Drawing inspiration from Shakespeare and centuries-old wisdom, our podcast, Sourcing’s Three Fates, explores the three critical forces that shape every...
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Outsourcing's Two Evils
Outsourcing can unlock efficiency and cost savings—but italso hides two costly evils: 🔍 Paying for Nothing🔍 Paying Twice for Something From inflated SLAs to duplicate software licenses, these traps quietly drain budgets and erode value. In his guide Outsourcing’s Two Evils, Ernie Zibert shares...
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The relationship between the five dimensions of sourcing value
Why “Lowest Cost” Outsourcing Could Be Your Biggest Risk When it comes to outsourcing, chasing the lowest price often feels like a win—until reality hits. According to Ernie Zibert’s Sourcing Value Compass, the five dimensions of sourcing value—Financial Benefit, Market Discipline, Flexibility,...
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P5 - IT Managed Services New Touchstone
🚀 Why P5 Pricing is the Future of IT Managed Services For over two decades, IT pricing has been dominated by P x Q models—Price × Quantity. While functional, these models fail to align IT costs with actual business demand. Enter P5: Price per Period per Person—a game-changer for transparency and...
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Ordering IT Services: Would you like CHIPS with that?
When most managers order IT services, they assume they’ll “get what they paid for.” Reality check: You always get CHIPS with that order. And no, not the crunchy kind! CHIPS = ✔ C – Customer involvement ✔ H – Heterogeneity of service quality ✔ I – Intangibility ✔ P – Perishability ✔ S –…
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What is the price of a mousetrap?
Rethinking Cloud Value Assessment This podcast challenges outdated IT cost‑comparison models and introduces a modern framework for evaluating cloud investments. Traditional “generation one” metrics—comparing on‑premises costs to cloud pricing—fail to capture agility, scalability, and flexibility....
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Circumcising the Cloud
This podcast identifies the ten things every CxO should do to slash cloud waste. 2025 marks the first-year cloud spend exceeds traditional IT, with cloud revenue forecast around $917B versus $868B for traditional tech (Gartner). This trend only accelerates into trillion-dollar territory by 2028.…
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The IT RFx COW is too Fat
This podcast discusses the IT tendering processes and critiques traditional Request for Proposal (RFP) methods. The metaphor “RFP cow is too fat” suggests that the conventional RFP/RFx process has become bloated, inefficient, and overly complex. Organizations invest too much time and effort…
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Sourcing's 5 Critical Governance Processes
This podcast outlines the five essential governance processes for successful IT outsourcing relationships. These processes are designed to improve sourcing outcomes and are compliant with ISO 9001:2015 standards. Enjoy the listen.
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Death of IT MSPs
Today, we’re diving into Ernie Zibert’s thought-provoking ebook, “The Death of Managed Services.” It’s a bold title, but Ernie makes a compelling case for why the traditional IT Managed Services Provider—or MSP—model is rapidly becoming obsolete. Enjoy the listen.
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Impotence and Sourcing Governance
This podcast shows the synergy between the evolution in our understanding of human sexual performance and IT sourcing governance. We do not have specific guidance for customers and service providers so that they can efficaciously design and deploy IT sourcing governance. Until we attain such a...
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CREAMS
Today, we’re diving into a fresh approach to IT outsourcing — something called CREAMS. No, not the kind you put in your coffee, or the kind you put on your skin, but a strategy that could transform how your company manages IT Services. CREAMS stands for, 'Cloud Realised and Enabled Augmented...
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Cyber Security Principles
This is a summary of the Cyber Security Principles published by the Australian Government’s Cyber Security Centre on 4 December 2024. Proudly bought to you by the IT Sourcing Sorcerer. Enjoy the listen.
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Cloud Governance
This podcast provides best practices for the effective governance of your cloud service provider(s). It answers the question, ‘is there any difference between governing traditional outsourced service providers and cloud providers?’ In addition, this podcast answers the question, ‘what's the best...
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Work in IT? You will need to master sourcing management. These podcasts, each less than five minutes, will help you get there. With over 20,000 downloads, it was time to turn the ebooks into podcasts. Enjoy the listen 🎧 👂 and get great insights into IT Sourcing Management from the one and only, the IT Sourcing Sorcerer. 🧙♂️
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Work in IT? You will need to master sourcing management. These podcasts, each less than five minutes, will help you get there. With over 20,000 downloads, it was time to turn the ebooks into podcasts. Enjoy the listen 🎧 👂 and get great insights into IT Sourcing Management from the one and only,...
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