CHAPTER 7: IT SERVICE PROVISION AND VALUE FOR MONEY
Overview
Our due diligence project is progressing well and we have completed most of the things auditors are in their comfort zone reporting on. Now we come to something we need to make a judgement on: value for money (vfm) of IT service provision.
Here we review:
- whether there has been adequate investment in IT.
- the capability and cost of the IT team.
- the licensing terms of the IT being transferred.
- the key third-party service providers.
In some respects vfm of IT is relatively straightforward when looking at the IT investment and IT team and it is very easy to overcomplicate the work.
The investment in IT we can almost say is visible. Visit the data centre and look at the hardware. If ...
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