andy, HP - IT Excellence, IT excellence
Welcome to part III of my five-step approach to finding the financial waste in your IT budget. Are you reviewing your IT contracts and invoices on a consistent basis? You should be because there is always money to be found there. Reducing your contractual costs can...
andy, HP - IT Excellence, IT excellence
If you do, you are wasting some of your valuable IT operating budget and losing company revenue. Welcome to part II of my five-step approach to finding the financial waste in your IT budget. Mature ITIL processes improve the reliability and repeatability of the IT...
andy, HP - IT Excellence, IT excellence
If you are asking yourself this question or if your leadership is telling you they are, then you can be assured they are. The truth is that unless you are continually managing your IT assets, there will always be savings to be found. Welcome to Part I of my five-step...
andy, consultants, Finance Transformation, IT excellence
Shared services are when a business consolidates its support functions to better serve the corporation and its business units. Typically, this includes services such as human resources, finance and accounting, information technology, and other front and back-office...
consultants, Finance Transformation, HP - Program Management, IT excellence, jean-christophe, Operational Efficiency, Program Management
You have just been hired to perform the work as a consultant. The first meeting with your client is starting; this is the time to begin your engagement. First and foremost, I would recommend not behaving as an employee who might wait for their “boss” to...
andy, HP - IT Excellence, IT excellence
Welcome to part IV of my five-step approach to finding the financial waste in your IT budget. Part IV is not for the faint of heart. Building an IT Service cost capability will require time, effort, skills not typically found in IT organizations and a strong...