Our Services

Large enterprises under shareholder scrutiny and mid-market companies financing growth via retained earnings or private equity funding have one agenda in common – optimizing the overall cost to run the business. Third-party spend can account for 30-70 percent of an organization’s cost structure. This means that its equally important to contain vendor spend as it is to manage retained costs.

Moreover, several organizations do not have a good grip on their true IT & Business Operations cost base, a situation that only gets exacerbated with acquisitions as costs get spread over multiple units in no clear, consistent, or centralized manner. Additionally, in-flight enterprise-wide transformation programs are seldom appropriately accounted, allocated, and forecasted.

We perform a comprehensive assessment of as-is retained and third-party costs and catalog it accurately under Capital Expenditures and Operating Expenses and create a true-up Total Cost of Ownership Model for IT and Business Operations. As hands-on practitioners, we understand that such cost assessments may be based on multiple and fragmented data systems and therefore may warrant several iterations / validations in lockstep with the client.

Often this first phase of cost true-up can uncover anywhere between 10 percent to 40 percent buried and unclassified costs. Once a true-up view of the client’s as-is retained and third-party costs has been firmed up, we proceed to benchmark each cost unit and build up optimization targets aggregated by categories, departments, subsidiaries, and/or third-party contracts.

We also commit to securing the identified opportunities by leading the downstream third-party contract negotiations, governing internal optimization programs, and / or deploying partner analytics tools.