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Shift the Budget From IT Maintenance Toward IT Enhancements
Reduce operational spending without adversely impacting performance.
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Your Challenge
- The cost of delivering the same ongoing services typically consumes 85% of IT budgets, leaving little capacity for enhancements to business value.
- Shifts of the IT budget away from existing services, while difficult, can significantly increase capacity for IT enhancement.
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Our Advice
Critical Insight- More than 50% of organizations have realized the greatest cost reduction pay-offs from renegotiating vendor /outsourcer contracts and optimizing business processes.
- Start looking for opportunities to optimize current maintenance processes instead of cancelling new projects.
- Think of the exercise as reallocation NOT budget cuts – any savings should be funneled into new technologies and business analysis.
- Adapt to the business model changing suddenly and unpredictably
- Adopt new technologies (e.g. mobile, social) and develop new strategies
- Respond to an increase in client & staff demand and sophistication
- Think strategically: You can't cut your way to success, and the status quo is expensive
Get to Action
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Start identifying opportunities for IT maintenance cost reductions
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Effectively negotiate vendor contracts
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Reallocate budget to IT enhancements
