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In today's challenging times, CIO's and their IT organizations are not only tasked with delivering efficient and effective business solutions to their companies, but they must do so in an environment that is severely constrained by time, budget and resource limitations. In such environments, making sound strategic sourcing decisions is essential to achieve optimum value for the dollars spent on IT products and services, both in terms of the initial acquisition, but also to manage cost over the entire product/service life cycle. Considering that many companies are now entertaining or have taken advantage of longer term outsourcing/offshoring of various IT services and business processes, making the right strategic sourcing decisions for such arrangements takes on even more importance. Done correctly, IT strategic sourcing not only assists in achieving an optimized, cost efficient and effective enterprise, but also fosters speed and innovation that in the aggregate, helps a company attain true competitive advantage.

Knowledge Space International offers a highly experienced team of IT Sourcing professionals that can support your organization's sourcing needs regardless of whether you require support for a specific short term project, want to create a more robust strategic sourcing process, or would like to outsource the entire IT sourcing function. We can help you dramatically reduce cost, reduce procurement cycle time, reduce business risk, and achieve more sustainable/high value supplier relationships.

Knowledge Space International can...

Quickly deploy resources on your site to work directly within your organization's culture, or can do the work at a Knowledge Space International owned facility.
Provide strategic sourcing training to make your staff or your companies procurement staff cognizant of the IT sourcing process, more adept at utilizing sourcing strategies and how to more effectively negotiate with IT suppliers.
Work in a consulting capacity to help your organization transition from hand to mouth purchasing to a strategic sourcing approach.
Work with IT leadership to assess your companies IT sourcing processes, prioritize and then pursue large spend and/or quick hit savings opportunities.
Assist you in drafting IT specific agreements/RFXs that will minimize business risk and help control key performance and cost elements (software licenses, hardware purchase, temporary technical help, complex project, outsourcing, etc).
Help you build stronger, more collaborative and value generating relationships with your major suppliers.
Help you implement eprocurement, asset management, and other supply chain related systems and processes that support driving cost out of the business, improving operational speed and overall quality/effectiveness.

It is also important to note that our consultants are not academics or byproducts of the consulting industry, but are true industry practitioners with years of experience implementing strategic sourcing programs in large Fortune companies such as IBM, GTE, Verizon, Union Carbide, etc.

Don't delay leveraging your IT spend; contact Knowledge Space International today and join the ranks of other companies that are attaining competitive advantage by taking advantage of world class IT strategic sourcing knowledge and expertise.