Scenarios for strategic sourcing of information and communication technology

We describe parts of the results of a Nolan Norton Institute research project "Strategic Sourcing and Partnerships" executed with 20 international companies. We applied scenario planning to arrive at a number of plausible future scenarios for ICT sourcing and partnerships for the year 2003/2005. The scenarios elaborate on issues such as: what are the key environmental and business aspects that will drive future business and ICT partnerships when entering the next century; what are relevant, plausible and realistic consequences for the role of ICT as business; and what are the relevant consequences for business executives and internal and external providers of ICT?.