Sourcing diagnostic plugs a hole to stop wasted effort – but know how to get the best from it.

The Clarity IT sourcing diagnostic came from a simple idea. How do I know whether I should in-source or outsource my IT? What best practices are there that I can apply to my business without it costing the farm? When you look at all the published stats about outsourcing agreements not delivering the expected returns

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Build Transformational Change from a solid Foundation

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Cost reduction can be an opportunity to align better with business needs

Measuring IT service provision is an opportunity to align better with key business processes

Business processes may not be fully supporting the evolving business strategy

Looking at all three in an integrated way is an effective way of driving change and reducing costs.

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Detailing a Transformational Framework

Our latest white paper ‘A Transformational Framework’ is now available in our White Paper section.

In this paper we look at the ‘how’ of measurement-based transformation, presenting a structured approach to making confident, sustained changes. This transformational framework is fully realised in the Procertis Change Control Process that is an integral part of our Enterprise Range

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Moving IT services up the value chain

An increasingly common business strategy for driving shareholder value, is to ‘move up the value chain’. Commoditisation is viewed as a death sentence opening the business to global competition and continuous downward cost pressure.

In the value chain approach the basic product or commodity is surrounded with value add-ons that offer increased margin opportunities and better

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Tactical or Strategic Savings?

Yesterday’s interesting conversation with a client revolved around his cost saving plans for 2009. He has a big drive to cut the costs of running his servers. That’s got to make sense, anything that’s cheaper must be good musn’t it?

In our experience, no, it isn’t. The real challenge is to understand exactly what it is

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