NPI Helps You Find the Path to Productive Outsourcing Partnerships
Thousands of companies turn to outsourcing to reduce IT costs and improve productivity. But many find themselves wondering if the benefits are worth the headache in the wake of a multitude of IT cost management challenges. Whether you're considering outsourcing as an IT strategy, or struggling to achieve IT cost reductions with your current outsourcing partners, NPI's IT spend management experts can help.
Through our outsourcing optimization consulting services, we help you create synergistic vendor relationships for your IT and business process outsourcing (BPO) initiatives by focusing on five key areas: collaboration, governance, gainsharing, fair market value and measurement.
Whether you are outsourcing specific functions like network management, or large-scale business processes like human resources, NPI's consultants transform outsourcing challenges into measurable success.
- Business Case Development: NPI helps you create compelling, cost-justified business cases for outsourcing that uncover IT cost reduction strategies and opportunities.
- Vendor Evaluation & Selection: Our outsourcing experts partner with your IT purchasing team to evaluate outsourcing vendors based on specific business goals.
- Fair Market Valuation & Negotiation:Using our proprietary pricing assessment tools and Level 5™ Spend Management methodologyNPI evaluates and negotiates cost proposals to ensure you pay fair market value for proposed services.
- Contract Analysis & Evaluation: NPI's pricing experts review your outsourcing contracts to uncover IT cost reduction opportunities and leverage IT cost cutting practices to help you avoid pricing pitfalls.
- Collaborative Goal Setting: NPI works with your executive team to identify both financial and non-financial objectives so that your vendor-client partnerships reduce costs as well as improve operational efficiencies, refine business processes and bolster innovation.
- Governance & Gainsharing Support: NPI's outsourcing consultants give you the tools to create proactive governance plans that go beyond traditional project management and issue tracking. To ensure top performance from outsourcing vendors, NPI determines targeted gainsharing objectives that provide financial and qualitative incentives for exceeding goals.
- Measurement & Benchmarking: Through IT audits and IT price benchmarking, NPI partners with clients to evaluate the accuracy, timeliness and effectiveness of their outsourcing vendors. This practice ensures you are realizing profit and/or productivity gains in the right areas of business and in a timely manner.
Ready to reduce your technology overspending? Click here to discuss a savings evaluation.
