accelerate your ambition

The days of massive outsourcing deals, in which large multinational organisations handed over their entire ICT function to a single

services partner, are over. Today’s trends indicate a journey towards a multi-sourcing or selective sourcing model, and for good reason.

Outsourcing your network – Lock, stock, and barrel or bite sized chunks?

accelerate your ambition

One in a series of 6 insights related to Secrets and strategies

to long-term cost savings on the network

Clarifying the challenges

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The real driver is finding a model that suits the business strategy, manages your risk, saves costs, and ensures maximum efficiency in delivering new services to the business ...

The question that CIOs are asking is: What is the right blend of in-house expertise, managed services and IT outsourcing?

The first challenge is to continue to optimise your organisation to do more with less.

The next challenge is to ensure that the model you choose can flex and adapt over time as your

business strategy evolves.

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Things to consider

Businesses are looking to exploit technology to provide competitive advantage. If your IT sourcing strategy doesn’t consider how to blend models such as cloud and pay-as-you-go services, it may become an inhibitor to your business.

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Consider and Understand the costs

Before you can find and adopt a new IT consumption model you need to understand the cost that you’re already incurring to run and support your network.

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Consider where internal IT adds the most value

There’s not much worth in IT spending most of its time doing mundane operational, support, and maintenance tasks simply to keep systems up and running. Which of those day-to-day activities do you really need to continue doing internally because they help you drive competitive advantage, versus outsourcing them to an external provider who in many cases can drive greater efficiencies due to scale?’

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Consider gaining greater flexibility Find partners that deliver both outcomes and contractual manoeuvring room in order to adjust the nature of the relationship when required

Partner with an organisation that can offer you that flexibility, and that’s interested in working at the right pace of transformation for your Business, however many steps it may take to get there.

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In Closing … Don’t sign a contract with a partner that binds you to doing

something in a specific way.

This makes it hard to introduce innovation into the business in the form of new functions and processes, when you need them.

Outsourcing in bite-sized chunks allows you to build a far more

agile business, because you can tailor the services you buy more specifically to your business objectives

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or-Bite-Sized-Chunks/Pages/Home.aspx

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