General Motors'IT group has undergone a thorough transformation in the last eight years, one that has seen the company knock more than a billion dollars off its annual IT budget of $4 billion. Tony Scott has helped drive that change over the last five years as CTO for GM's Information Systems & Services organization. He reveals that behind the savings is a massive effort to consolidate - going from 7,000 legacy systems in 1996 to fewer than 3,000 today - and ideally he'd like to get that number down to about 1,000. The backdrop for all this is GM's unique 100% outsourcing arrangement, which both helps and hurts. Network World's Jeff Caruso sat down with Scott to talk about how the transformation is going.
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