IT Outsourcing Advice
Achieving sustainable savings and efficiencies
The economic downturn has forced most businesses to look closely at cost cutting. This has put pressure on existing deals as outsourcing clients re-evaluate their contracts to improve efficiency. It has also forced clients to look for new opportunities to cut costs through more extensive outsourcing. In either situation it is now more difficult to deliver the value clients need through traditional approaches and more important than ever to make the right technology and management decisions to deliver the benefits expected.
DMW helps clients to optimise their sourcing strategies. We help them to define the right strategy at the outset and where outsourcing is chosen we help select the suppliers and negotiate the best deal. We also have a wealth of experience of delivering improved IT systems and helping to manage and optimise them once in day-to-day operation, for instance through virtualisation and other infrastructure utility technologies. This practical experience, together with our considerable experience of implementing multi-sourcing staffing models, means we have insights that other outsourcing advisors rarely have. Knowing how to get the best out of IT investments means we can identify ways to structure and restructure outsourcing deals such that both parties continue to see the benefits and most importantly the clients see the cost reductions they need.
What we do:
Scoping Outsourcing
Defining the right scope of services for outsourcing; retaining the right type of client-side organisation
Vendor Selection & Negotiation
Managing the selection, negotiation and transition to a new outsourcing partner
Ongoing Management
Actively managing the relationship to take advantage of opportunities for improvement.
