Targeted tech reviewFast-track insights into your IT
Businesses are challenged with the optimisation of costs; to balance lights-on technology delivery, business alignment, risk vs agility and business value creation.
Core to this is a structured approach to strategy-aligned cost reviews, reallocation and optimisation of the IT spend.
Sound financial management in challenging times can extend the IT spend further, whilst still delivering to business needs and managing risk.
Our CIO Technology Review is a focused and agile approach to cost reduction & value generation from your IT spend
- Reduce direct and indirect IT expenditure on vendors, software or internal IT development/operations
- Reallocate existing budget and resources to processes and functions that deliver better business value
- Instead of looking at IT as a cost centre, explore opportunities to use it as a driver of revenue and market growth
- Reduce the risk of unplanned IT expenses and negative business impacts from outages, issues or breeches
- Identify areas where your business could streamline operations or augment delivery using AI
What the CIO Technology Review looks at:
We look at four dimensions to reduce or extend the business value of your IT spend. These range from cutting costs (e.g. save on vendors or subscriptions), optimising spend (making your dollar go further), creating value (get your IT to make money for you) and managing risk (protect against expensive issues/outages).
How we work with you:
This review process can be a few days or a few weeks, depending on what you need reviewed.
In all cases we take a pragmatic view to the review. Quick wins and fast payback are prioritised.
What your CIO Technology Review report will contain:
100% jargon-free insights
- We’re different to other tech firms; we demystify and simplify IT
Quick wins + options for the future
- We’ll highlight what you could do now;
quickly, cheaply, to get business benefits. - Our pragmatic approach presents options for cost and risk reduction, not alarmist ”must do’s”
Recommended next steps (but absolutely no lock in)
- We will present some options and recommended next steps, with no obligation for you to do this, or even consult with us
Potential Findings
…but the actual findings will depend on: your business, the problems you’re facing and the areas that you would like us to review
Direct IT Savings:
- License consolidation: duplication of services (e.g. one subscription or SaaS when you’re paying for another suite/SaaS with these services)
- Turn the lights off as you leave: Software, SaaS or cloud costs for long-discarded systems or proof of concepts
IT vendor and managed services review:
- Reviews such as these often highlight issues with vendors and managed services:
- Misalignment of expectations vs contracted services
- Opportunities for reprioritisation
- Opportunities for savings (paying for services no longer required)
Misalignment on priorities for IT
- Eyes on the prize: Our review can highlight the priority for internal IT resources. Build vs buy? New features vs reliability or operations/delivery speed?
- Application Rationalisation: Which applications deliver to today and tomorrow’s business, and which ones can be cut to save on costs?
Technology Health Review
- Our health reviews can identify where you’re sending good IT money after bad tech investments – then provide recommendations for remediation. Reallocate funds to platforms that will build your business and take you into the future
Architecture optimisation
- Hosting infrastructure review: We can highlight opportunities to save on hosting, cloud and SaaS services and potentially to increase resilience at the same time
Risk & Resilience Findings
- Review whether your organisation is likely to recover from disasters in time. Or whether you’d likely to be protected in case of a ransomware attack
- Identify single points of failure within your architecture
- Highlight how your teams taking a risk approach to development, changes and operations