Build Your IT Cost Optimization Roadmap
Improve cost-to-value in a sustainable manner.
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Without an optimized approach to budget and cost management you risk:
- Strained relationships with the business
- Missed opportunities
- Bad decisions
With an optimized approach to budget and cost management you can:
- Improve relationship with the business
- Seize opportunities
- Make better decisions
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Onsite Workshops offer an easy way to accelerate your project. If you are unable to do the project yourself, and a Guided Implementation isn’t enough, we offer low-cost onsite delivery of our Project Workshops. We take you through every phase of your project and ensure that you have a road map in place to complete your project successfully.
Book NowModule 1: Understand Your Mandate & Objectives
The Purpose
- Determine your organization’s current context and its cost optimization objectives, IT’s corresponding cost optimization journey, and goals.
Key Benefits Achieved
- A business-aligned set of specific IT cost optimization goals.
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| 1.1 | Understand your organization’s cost optimization objectives and how this impacts IT. |
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| 1.2 | Review potential cost optimization target areas based on your ITFM Benchmarking Report. |
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| 1.3 | Identify factors constraining cost optimization options. |
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| 1.4 | Set concrete IT cost optimization goals. |
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| 1.5 | Identify inputs required for decision making. |
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Module 2: Outline Initiatives for Vendors & Assets
The Purpose
- Create a longlist of potential cost optimization initiatives focused on two cost optimization levers: assets and vendors.
Key Benefits Achieved
- A comprehensive list of potential asset- and vendor-focused initiatives including cost savings estimates.
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| 2.1 | Identify a longlist of possible initiatives around asset lifecycle management, investment deferral, repurposing, etc., and vendor contract renegotiation, cancelation, etc. |
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| 2.2 | Estimate the cost savings of cost optimization initiatives. |
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Module 3: Outline Initiatives for Projects & Workforce
The Purpose
- Create a longlist of potential cost optimization initiatives focused on two cost optimization levers: project portfolio and workforce.
Key Benefits Achieved
- A comprehensive list of potential initiatives focused on project portfolio and workforce including cost savings estimates.
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| 3.1 | Identify a longlist of possible initiatives around project priorities, project backlog reduction, project intake restructuring, etc., and workforce productivity, skills, redeployment, etc. |
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| 3.2 | Estimate the cost savings of cost optimization initiatives. |
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Module 4: Build an IT Cost Optimization Roadmap
The Purpose
- Develop a visual IT cost optimization roadmap.
Key Benefits Achieved
- A prioritized, business-aligned IT cost optimization roadmap
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| 4.1 | Assess feasibility of each initiative (effort and risk profile) given cost optimization goals. |
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| 4.2 | Prioritize cost optimization initiatives to create a final shortlist. |
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| 4.3 | Fine-tune key information about your final cost optimization initiatives and develop a cost optimization roadmap for proposal. |
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Module 5: Communicate & Execute
The Purpose
- Develop a communication plan and executive presentation.
Key Benefits Achieved
- A boardroom-ready set of communication materials for gaining buy-in and support for your IT cost optimization roadmap.
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| 5.1 | Outline components of a communication plan, including approvers, stakeholders, and governance and management mechanisms to be used. |
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| 5.2 | Create an executive presentation. |
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| 5.3 | Set up review time for workshop deliverables and post-workshop activities. |
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