As a provider of procurement & supply chain consulting<\/a> we know that every project is different for the customer. However, experience shows that knowledge from previous projects can lead to enormous increases in effectiveness and efficiency<\/b> . Based on the experiences and the derived methods & concepts solutions<\/b> are found faster and goals<\/b> reached easier as well as with significantly less risk<\/b> .<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div> We therefore collect our findings and process them, where appropriate, into concepts for future projects. The corresponding action or thought framework, the guidelines or approaches for a procedure help us and our customers to achieve success very quickly. We apply these concepts \/ our methodology in a customer-specific way - always tailored to your situation and your company.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div> Our management and consulting concept corresponds to a holistic approach. We look at the whole company. Our concepts reflect that.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div> Typical customer testimonials...<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div> "Service providers or software manufacturers do not provide a future-proof best practice solution"<\/strong><\/p>\n "The project budget exceeds expectations"\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n \"Follow-up costs for releases are not calculated or too low\"<\/strong><\/p>\n \"Productivity increase is difficult to measure\"<\/strong><\/p>\n \"The project becomes unnecessarily complex and takes much longer than planned\"<\/strong><\/p>\n \"Data quality is insufficient at the start of the project\"<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/q><\/blockquote> Digitization often cannot be achieved without external service providers, and it cannot be further accelerated under any circumstances. However, there is often a lack of an effective and efficient approach to managing these service providers, and IT spending can easily get out of hand. Projects then have to be postponed or scaled down or cannot start at all.<\/p>\n What can the solution look like? So how can digitization be accelerated without increasing IT spending at the same time?<\/p>\n We have developed a new approach from a large number of projects in different sectors.<\/p>\n<\/div> Our approach, which we call efficient IT sourcing, is based on a few guidelines, similar to agile management:<\/p>\n<\/div> Many IT contracts are bursting with technical measurement data that is used for billing. But something else is important: How well does IT support your business?<\/b><\/p>\n Therefore, key performance indicators are to be selected that take the most suitable indicators in focus.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div> Have you already experienced this...<\/em>IT contracts should be as precise as possible, so finer and finer rules are being drawn up and the contract is becoming longer and more difficult to understand. Cooperation becomes inefficient because the contractual partners have to agree on the rules more and more often and everyone is looking for their own advantage.<\/p>\n Instead, leave more room for decisions by employees at the work level in terms of process efficiency and customer relationships!<\/strong><\/p>\n The system then requires significantly fewer rules, is many times more efficient and you save yourself escalations.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div> Many IT service contracts are valid for not only 3 years but for 5 years, some even longer. But what should a contract look like when the technologies that will be used during its term are still unknown on the day of its signature?<\/p>\n Make sure the contract provides mechanisms that make change easy! <\/b>This allows you to react to new technologies or changes in your business.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div> Many IT service contracts contain very precise price tables, according to which e-mail accounts, storage space and the like are billed. Much of this is required, but much can be done more easily.<\/p>\n Calculate according to what is relevant to you: What overall service does your company receive from the service provider? And don't benchmark individual cost items, but the total costs. <\/b><\/p>\n The approach results in having a service provider helping you to save on superfluous software installations, unnecessary data archives and unused but reserved hardware.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div> The big tech companies like Microsoft, Google, or SAP regularly introduce new, powerful products. Corresponding contracts always include the option to purchase the corresponding services in bundles. That's good, but it can lead to unnecessary costs if the new opportunities in the company are not used sufficiently.<\/p>\n Therefore, before signing a contract and introducing it, always answer the question what user value the new technology will achieve. Estimate the business case for this!<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div> These guidelines and the experience of implementing them create a very powerful tool for keeping IT expenses under control. We were able to reduce our customers' IT budgets by 25-50% without reducing the scope of services and code quality. Two essential consequences arise from the implementation: Firstly, the budget is freed up to accelerate digitization. Secondly, the IT budget is used much more efficiently than before.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>Emarticon solutions & methodology at a glance<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div>
Emarticon\u00ae Efficient IT sourcing
<\/h3><\/div>How to get your IT costs under control<\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>
Practice shows: IT sourcing is one of the decisive factors for successful digitization<\/h5><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Efficient IT sourcing guidelines<\/h4><\/div>
<\/i><\/i><\/span>Business KPI above technical measurement<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>
<\/i><\/i><\/span>Customer-supplier relationships above contract rules<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>
<\/i><\/i><\/span>Good response to change is more important than planning and measuring<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>
<\/i><\/i><\/span>Total cost counts more than price benchmarking<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>
<\/i><\/i><\/span>Innovation is driven by user value<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>
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