| 01/10/11EquaTerra Value Assurance Analysis Helps to Maximise the Value of Outsourcing for a Global Pharmaceutical CompanyEquaTerra deconstructed and reconstructed the contract between this leading specialist pharmaceutical company and its IT outsourcing service provider and carried out its ’6P’ Value Assurance analysis. A Value Assurance exercise offers a route to effectively aligning service expectations, perceptions and realities in a long term agreement to maximise value. It takes a more holistic view than a benchmarking exercise alone and includes an assessment of the ‘6P’ areas of the relationship: Plan & Potential, Performance, Process, Price & Commercials, Perception and People & Governance. |
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| 10/14/10Large Pharmaceutical Company Reduces Costs Though Real Estate & Facilities Management DealA large pharmaceutical company was facing significant revenue reductions and found that its facilities management processes offered opportunities for significant cost reductions. The company retained EquaTerra to help it develop a global facilities management strategy and implement it through provider selection, transition and governance. The company is expected to yield more than 20% annual savings over the five year contract term. |
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| 06/14/10Water Company Has Optimised Information Systems on TapThis water company had a long-standing relationship with its incumbent Information Services (IS) supplier. Operating under two separate contracts, the supplier provided IT infrastructure services and applications development and maintenance respectively. In recent years, service quality, service levels and overall user satisfaction had deteriorated. Furthermore, the company wanted to rebalance IS services to deliver best value IT provision. |
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| 04/07/10EquaTerra's Expertise Guides Large Company Throughout its Search for IT and ADM Outsourcing PartnersAfter a large outsourcing agreement was terminated, EquaTerra was engaged to help the electric delivery company re-evaluate its information technology (IT) and application development and maintenance (ADM) outsourcing arrangements. With a short timeline and a variety of obstacles, EquaTerra was able to help the company secure a new long-term relationship with two proven service providers. The company is now poised for a successful long-term outsourcing journey. |
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| 03/22/10TV Organisation Broadcasts F&A Outsourcing and Internal Transformation BenefitsFaced with falling advertising revenues, this organisation engaged EquaTerra to investigate opportunities to create value from outsourcing and transforming elements of its back and front office support functions. Ultimately, Finance and Accounting tasks were outsourced, while Human Resource and Procurement tasks underwent internal transformation. |
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| 03/17/10Global Music Company Changes its Tune Finance and Accounting Service Delivery Evolves to Support Business Needs and Adapt to Market Changes: Significant shift in market dynamics placed pressure on the company's revenue and profitability. As a result, the business re-examined its finance cost base for both its North American and European operations and identified an opportunity to deliver cost saving and efficiency benefits. |
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| 07/17/09EquaTerra Supports a HR Transformation Strategy for a UK Central Government DepartmentTo support this government department’s Human Resources (HR) transformation project, EquaTerra undertook an options analysis study. EquaTerra also formulated the business case to allow management to consider how various sourcing models could operate. Alternative models including a captive shared services model, outsourcing of HR and purchasing services directly from another department were also investigated. |
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| 07/01/09Global Pharmaceutical Company Tackles Multi-Million Dollar IT Outsourcing InitiativeA leading global pharmaceutical company turned to IT outsourcing to lower costs, improve IT efficiencies and diversify risk within its IT operation. With a sound relationship in place with EquaTerra and internally aligned executives with a shared vision, the company was able to establish and execute an end-to-end IT outsourcing deal with a single provider worth more than $700 million. |
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| 04/01/09Innovative Sourcing Case Study: VF Corporation Manages ITO Request for Proposal Cycle in Record TimeA typical information technology outsourcing (ITO) request for proposal (RFP) cycle can span five months or longer. VF knew they wanted to follow a different path and sought a revolutionary approach to the RFP process that would deliver the results they were seeking in a compressed timeframe. The key criteria they established upfront ultimately enabled VF to go from strategy development to vendor selection in a mere six weeks, and successfully leveraged innovation to achieve their strategic and tactical goals. |
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