91制片厂 Your IT Cost Optimization Roadmap for Higher Education
Improve cost-to-value in a sustainable manner.
Institutional challenges include:
- Misalignment and poor collaboration among stakeholders: Issues with communication and relationships.
- Lack of a clear strategic plan and effective processes.
- Deficiency in knowledge, expertise, and skill sets.
- Insufficient funding and lack of financial transparency.
- Ineffective change management practices.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
Cost optimization is not just about reducing costs. In fact, you should aim to achieve three objectives: (1) reduce your unwarranted IT spending, (2) optimize your cost-to-value, and (3) sustain your cost optimization.
Impact and Result
Follow Info-Tech's approach to develop a 12-month cost optimization roadmap.
Info-Tech's methodology helps you maintain sustainable cost optimization across IT by focusing on four levers:
- Assets
- Vendors
- Project Portfolio
- Workforce
About Info-Tech
91制片厂 is the world鈥檚 fastest-growing information technology research and advisory company, proudly serving over 30,000 IT professionals.
We produce unbiased and highly relevant research to help CIOs and IT leaders make strategic, timely, and well-informed decisions. We partner closely with IT teams to provide everything they need, from actionable tools to analyst guidance, ensuring they deliver measurable results for their organizations.
What Is a Blueprint?
A blueprint is designed to be a roadmap, containing a methodology and the tools and templates you need to solve your IT problems.
Each blueprint can be accompanied by a Guided Implementation that provides you access to our world-class analysts to help you get through the project.
Need Extra Help?
Speak With An Analyst
Get the help you need in this 4-phase advisory process. You'll receive 7 touchpoints with our researchers, all included in your membership.
Guided Implementation 1: Understand Your Mandate and Objectives
- Call 1: Identify cost optimization scope requirements, objectives, and your specific challenges. Review and assess cost optimization goals and objectives.
Guided Implementation 2: Outline Your Cost Optimization Initiatives
- Call 1: Review potential cost optimization initiatives for assets and vendors levers.
- Call 2: Assess cost optimization initiatives鈥� cost and feasibility 鈥� for assets and vendors levers.
- Call 3: Review potential cost optimization initiatives for project portfolio and workforce levers.
- Call 4: Assess cost optimization initiatives鈥� cost and feasibility 鈥� for project portfolio and workforce levers.
Guided Implementation 3: Develop Your IT Cost Optimization Roadmap
- Call 1: Identify final decision criteria for cost optimization prioritization. Review prioritized cost optimization initiatives and roadmap outputs.
Guided Implementation 4: Communicate and Execute
- Call 1: Review the Cost Optimization Communication Plan and IT Cost Optimization Executive Presentation. Discuss next steps.
Contributors
David Cho, Chief Procurement Officer
Arthur Brant, Senior Director, Information Security & Infrastructure, Abilene Christian University