Our technology costs too much, and keep rising

Benchmark what you spend, find the overspend, and deliver the savings without losing the capability you rely on.

01 What is usually going on

Most technology overspend hides in plain sight, in contracts nobody has revisited, services nobody has compared and “cheap” options that cost more over their lifetime.

Signs you might recognise

Cloud and licence bills that grow faster than the organisation
No clear view of what each service costs, or what it is worth
Savings targets met by cutting capability, not waste
Low day rates that never seem to lead to low total costs

02How we would approach it

Three steps, at your pace

Baseline and benchmark
We baseline your costs and compare them against similar organisations in the public and private sectors to find where you are overspending.
Build the portfolio
We turn the overspend into a portfolio of evidence-based opportunities, each with its cost, benefit and impact set out.
Deliver the savings
We help deliver the changes, manage the dependencies and up-skill your team so they can keep costs under control after we leave.

What you can expect

Savings with no loss of capability
A team able to keep costs under control
Money freed for the work that matters

03Where we have done it

A case study

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Operational Efficiency OptimisationNational Policing Client

Millions of pounds of savings, with no loss of capability

Members of the Devsultants team provided support to a national policing organisation to help them reduce ongoing operational costs, freeing up funds to develop new capabilities to help reduce crime and save lives.

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Our team quickly integrated with the organisation’s own resources and within a short period of time were able to baseline costs and conduct benchmark comparisons against other similar organisations - in both the public and private sector. This identified large category areas of overspend which could then be examined and optimised, with the result being millions of pounds of savings identified with no reduction in existing capabilities.

In taking on this work, our team also up-skilled the organisation’s own team so that they could continuously monitor and improve the operational services for lasting benefit. This function is still running today, and members of that team have subsequently seen accelerated career progression by using the skills gained during that work.

“The team demonstrated superb intellect and brought a much needed analytical approach to the work.”

Client CIO

04Think it through

Before you talk to anyone

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