Strategic Analysis of Current Services
A well designed vendor management plan takes into consideration the organization’s core businesses values thus leaving the management to focus on achieving its main business goals.
Part of SPI’s TVMS suite includes assistance at a strategic level to identify outsourcing vendors best suited to each organization as well as projects and initiatives most suited to outsourcing. If needed, various projects for an organization can be run through SPI’s Outsource Suitability Matrix Tool in order to determine cost effectiveness of outsourcing a particular IT project.
A detailed assessment of an organization’s strategic objectives identifies the guidelines of the viability of specific IT initiatives.
SPI’s Strategic Alignment Cube software analyzes proposed IT initiatives especially in the context of outsourcing and determines which of those are in line with the organization’s strategic objectives.
SPI’s Strategic Vendor Management services include :
- An analysis and evaluation of the organization’s current business model: strategy and strategic objectives as well as the IT drivers that contribute towards those strategic objectives
- Drafting a technology plan based on the company’s mission statement to ensure success in meeting company goals
- Identifying the strengths and weaknesses of the IT Outsourcing vendor processes
- An extensive search and evaluation of current and prospective vendors to identify the most suitable vendor for the organization’s distinctive needs
- Determining if each project or initiative is suitable for outsourcing by running each project through SPI’s Outsource Suitability Matrix
SPI’s Outsourcing Suitability Tool is based on industry standard methods and answers the “Should we outsource this project?” question
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