Case Studies
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Learn about our Client work and experience in the Case Studies provided below.
Sourcing and Selection |
Vendor and Service Management |
Sourcing Price Benchmarking |
Strategic Planning |
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| Using discipline, consistency and integrity to ensure the right outcome in the selection of vendors, technologies or service providers. | Assisting organisations to achieving best value and balance from internal and external service providers by establishing a Vendor and Services Management regime. | 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. | Using IT and Sourcing Strategies to navigate the organisation into its future. |
Superannuation InstituteHaving completed a sourcing program with CHERUB to identify a replacement Managed Service Provider, the Client appointed CHERUB in the role of Transition Project Manager to act on their behalf to support the transition of services from to the new vendor.
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Superannuation Management InstituteConsolidating the numerous supplier and vendor contracts in their IT Portfolio, the Client engaged CHERUB to re-design their their approach to vendor management. |
Professional Services OrganisationCHERUB prepared a price benchmark for an organisation that wanted to analyse the option of outsourcing some of the non core, but critical IT services, including associated costs to transition. |
Financial Services ProviderRecognisong that at the mid term of the contract, the Client engaged CHERUB to conduct an independent review of the contract and the sourcing strategy they had adopted to determine what options were both available and practical for them to undertake. |
Critical State UtilityFollowing an internal review, the Client engaged CHERUB were initially engaged to conduct a sourcing strategy for the entire gambit of IT services, and were subsequently engaged to develop and facilitate the infrastructure tender process along with providing negotiation assistance for the outsourced services. |
State Government DepartmentFaced with the challenge of managing a multitude of vendors and contracts with a very small internal team, the Client engaged CHERUB to develop a vendor managemwent stsyem that ensured that all vendor contracts were being adequately managed, benefits fully realised, and conditions of contract adhered to.
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Superannuation ManagerThe Client was undertaking a sourcing program seeking managed service for a wide range of IT services, but needed to develop a sourcing strategy as the pre-cursor to this work. |
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Agricultural CompanyHaving outsourced the support and maintenance of one of its core IT applications, the Client recognised that poor vendor management had resulted in unsatisfactory service to users and enaged CHERUB to implement a Vendor Management system to allow them to efficiently and effectively manage the new contract. |
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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.