Cost Control - Facility Review

We can help you review the IT services offered by your organisation. We can report on the efficiency of the operations using clear metrics. From this process we can help you develop a strategy to deal with pressures to decrease costs whilst at the same time handling changes to technology.

We will look at the practises of your team and the resources consumed. We will pose the awkward questions. Could you utilise better techniques to improve your value to the business?

There may be possiblities to introduce energy savings, to use lower cost telecommunications, to make better use of mobile computing facilities, to reduce data storage costs or to rationalise the use of servers. In some cases your business may gain from centralisation of services. We have long experience of undertaking such investigations in many different locations.

There may be legacy costs from defunct business units. Those costs usually have to be distributed as overhead costs. We have strategies to make those costs more acceptable. We can help you weed out costs that more properly belong with other business units. In one case, by cost transfer, we eliminated £15 million from a £120 million IT budget in the space of 2 months negotiation.

We can train your team so that they understand their part in the cost equation. We will help them realise that there actions can make a difference to the amounts charged to your client users.