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IT cost optimization is about more than cutting costs.

It's about sustainably improving your IT cost-to-value ratio. When planning your IT cost optimization journey:

  1. Understand your organization's current economic and operating context to know if you should prioritize actions that bring near-term gains or those that enable long-term opportunities.
  2. Identify asset, vendor, project, and workforce initiatives that will bring you to your desired destination.
  3. Lay these objectives out in a visual roadmap to share with stakeholders before setting out down your chosen path.
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Diagram: 1 Assets, 2 Vendors, 3 Project Portfolio, 4 Workforce

IT Cost Analysis & Optimization Workshop

Let us help you along your IT cost-optimization journey. First, use Info-Tech's IT Spend & Staffing Benchmarking Service to transparently map your IT expenditure. Then, use this information as a platform for making an informed deep dive into your organization's unique IT cost-optimization challenges and opportunities.

Understand Your Mandate & Objectives

  • Explore the organization's goals, operating context, and the impact on IT's mandate.
  • Analyze the results of your IT Spend & Staffing Benchmarking Report.
  • Identify the constraints, principles, and goals that will define your journey.

Outline Initiatives for Assets & Vendors

  • Identify potential asset and vendor IT cost optimization initiatives.
  • Assess each initiative according to its scope, business impact, and risks.
  • Create a long-list of potential asset and vendor initiatives.

Outline Initiatives for Projects & Workforce

  • Identify potential project and workforce IT cost optimization initiatives.
  • Assess each initiative according to its scope, business impact, and risks.
  • Create a long-list of potential project and workforce initiatives.

Develop an IT Cost Optimization Roadmap

  • Assess each potential IT cost optimization initiative's feasibility and alignment with IT's mandate.
  • Develop a prioritized shortlist of initiatives.
  • Develop a visual IT cost optimization roadmap.

Communicate & Execute

  • Draft a plan for communicating IT's cost optimization roadmap with stakeholders.
  • Create an executive presentation of your roadmap for delivery, review, and approval.

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Workforce Cost Optimization

Identify optimal staffing and capacity levels, team designs, required capabilities, training and automation opportunities, and other ancillary costs.

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