For the IT a great variety and dynamics are characteristic. The number of IT systems and of their heterogeneous interfaces rises with the variety of customer requirements. The IT organization has to react on the changing market demands and shorter product life cycles. Relics often emerge in a quick time and IT has to fight against unnecessary costs.
The Value Based Cost Cutting of the GET IT makes a research of all IT fields to take advantage of synergies and cost cutting potentials. According to the experience the cost cutting can be reached by the following:
- Constitution of an adequate contract management
- Management of the IT portfolio
- Elaboration of a sourcing strategy
- Standardization in the architecture management
- Conformation of a unified and consolidated IT infrastructure
- Use of process reengineering.
The primary task of the Value Based Cost Cutting is to simplify the processes and to reduce the expenses on IT services sustainably.
Procedure
- Analysis of the business processes supported by the IT and of the system structure and infrastructure arising as a result of the use of IT. Definition of the structure of the IT service organization needed for this
- Benchmarking concerning the solutions existing on the market and Best Practice solutions, comparison of these solutions with environmental and legal circumstances
- Development of a Cost Cutting Chances Catalogue
- Development of a Cost Cutting realization plan
- Initialization of a controlling process for a permanent cost tracking and management.
Work Performed by the GET IT
- Communication and modeling of the project management
- Moderation or conduction of the analysis', their evaluation and communication
- Allocation of professional concepts of generating effects that can cause cost reduces
- Management and quality assurance of project realization.
Result
- Cost Cutting Chances Catalogue with a presentation of cost reducing potentials and the time outlays for their realization
- Planning of cost reducing arrangements
- Presentation of the achieved cost savings.
Benefit for the Customer
- An increase of efficiency of the IT organization thanks to the Cost Cutting
- Transparency of the work done and of the expenses.
