这篇访谈从IT服务结合法律专业的独特角度展示了数字化变革和IT外包之间的关联。被访人和编辑关于Digital Service价格往往高于传统外包服务的观点有待商榷,但其中关于数据相关服务的论述颇为精彩。文章是站在外包风险管理和关系治理的角度编写的,但其中两点尤其可以作为趋势性预见加以引申解读:一是致力于消费者数字化产品和企业服务融合的中间件将有广阔市场;二是未来企业需要也必然建筑自身的数据壁垒以和新兴的数字化厂商博弈,最终达成某种程度的融合。企业在拥抱变革中过份依赖数字时代新厂商的风险在于,或者由于厂商能力不足(服务质量、数据安全等)、无法交付而面临转型的危机,或者因为拱手将数据资产交出而被颠覆出局。文中说:“如果合作商务条款中允许数字服务厂商整体性利用(in aggregated form)你的数据(比如说通过分析数据、得到洞察赚钱),你可要小心了”。这个听起来的确挺像国内很多初创企业正在想做的事儿哦。
“Little has been done to integrate digital age products with corporate ecosystems. Someday—perhaps—middleware will catch up. But today that means new needs for the customer to integrate disparate systems or to hire an integrator to do so. Digital age providers often make little commitment to provide reliable services for long periods of time. Many are new companies or experiments by established companies. Thus, customers are at risk of business disruption as the digital age providers change their business models or simply fail to deliver….You can lose substantial value to your digital age providers by allowing them to analyze your data and resell your business insights. Watch out for clauses allowing digital age providers to use your data in aggregated form to improve their services (such as selling insights from your data).”
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作者:文思海辉助理副总裁 符山 编辑:刘月