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IT Outsourcing (ITO) is a transition for any organization. Whether you outsource a single project or an entire application portfolio, finding the partners, negotiating contracts, building relationships, and managing day-to-day operations are critical to your outsourcing success. In ITO, we assist our clients with their sourcing strategy, transition management and sourcing management. SOURCING STRATEGY – We evaluate your organization from the IT outsourcing perspective to determine what is core and what should be outsourced. We establish your sourcing strategy to outline the business objectives and benefits of outsourcing initiatives by "service towers" - a logical grouping of IT functions such as application maintenance, help desk, or network support. As part of our sourcing strategy, we short list service providers (or vendors) that can provide proven solutions by the service towers. We advise you on your contracts and service level agreements (SLAs) based on the request for proposal (RFP) responses and help you negotiate the terms and conditions of the agreement including how penalties and incentives should be calculated. TRANSITION MANAGEMENT – Transitioning to an outsourced organization depends on many factors and we help you with every step of the way. We help establish governance, write job aids, and create a set of operational metrics by which a new sourcing management organization (SMO) should operate in concert with your external service providers (ESPs). Additionally, we help organizations replace one vendor for another or bring an outsourced service/function back in-house as part of our transition management services. SOURCING MANAGEMENT – Lastly, we help operate your SMO office as a PMO where the measure of success is tied to how your ESPs are performing against their established SLAs. Instead of starting with a strict SLA, we use the first year operations to reflect and baseline SLAs. Thereafter, we apply SLAs strictly and help ESPs improve service performance by creating an SMO dashboard - a management dashboard that tracks operational metrics. LMD Consulting has developed a software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution called tMonitor to help you with SLA management. |