Sourcing and Selection Services
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Outsourcing research from any number of sources over the years reveals that the outsourcing drivers cited by organisations do not vary greatly, irrespective of the industry, client, service or year. The qualifier being that whilst they may not vary in context, they do vary in priority or relevance according to the specifics of the organisation’s business environment at the time.
Outsourcing, therefore, is not a declining phenomena and more organisations use outsourcing as a management tool to deliver services to their internal and extended user base. Despite this consistency of purpose and the appreciable increase in understanding, experience and maturity in the implementation of sourcing solutions, many organisations are still not fully satisfied with the outcomes of their outsourced arrangements ... sometimes, with dramatic results.
- Over 13% of outsourcing contracts are brought in-house within the first 2 years
- Contractors turn over 40% of their contracts each year, on average
- Nearly 70% of outsourcing organisations feel their service provider does not adequately understand what they are supposed to do
- Buyers replace 80% of their service contractors in the first three years
In order to reverse these results, it is essential that those considering outsourcing as a management tool should understand sourcing trends during the last two decades and leverage the sourcing lessons learnt to date.
CHERUB has used this experience and knowledge to design, build and use its robust and proven Sourcing and Selection approaches, methodologies and tools to assist our clients to source vendors, technologies and IT services to augment their internal capability to deliver bottom-line improvements.
See our capability statement for a more detailed description of our services.
Vendor and Service Management |
Sourcing Price Benchmarking |
Strategic Planning |
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| Assisting organisations to achieving best value and balance from internal and external service providers by establishing a Vendor and Services Management regime. Read More |
Benchmarking can range from simple analysis of spending against budgets and comparison against broad industry metrics, through to detailed comparative benchmarks of the cost efficiency and service effectiveness. Read More |
Using IT and Sourcing Strategies to navigate the organisation into its future. Read More |
CHERUB talks with Ry Crozier of iTnews in an article titled "Taking the Fall" that looks at why clients keep their vendors out of the firing line when things go wrong.
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CHERUB talks with CIO Magazine (CIO.com) in their 2010/2011 Summer edition in an article titled "Offshore Drift" that discusses the challenges of offshore IT outsourcing and how to maximise your onshore vendor relationships in response.
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CHERUB is focussed on working with our clients to deliver superior outcomes. Our approach is one of building a collaborative team with the client to collectively achieve all objectives. We maintain a flexible approach whilst employing best practice methodology and processes.