01 / Plan
A roadmap tied to budget cycles and contract end dates.
- IT Strategy & Roadmap
- Virtual CIO
- Consulting & Integration
The work around the technology, start to end of life.
Strategy and roadmap at the front, contract negotiation in the middle, certified data destruction at the back. This is the practice that makes the other seven hold together over years rather than quarters.
15Advisory, expense and lifecycle services
20+ yrsIn the technology sector
0Manufacturer quotas carried
CertifiedData destruction and e-waste handling
The practice
How the practice is structured
Four moves, in order. Most programs we inherit are strong at one stage and thin at the others. The assessment tells you which.
02 / Source
The market run properly, with you on the buying side of the table.
- Vendor Sourcing & Selection
- Contract Negotiation & Renewal
03 / Staff
The people to run it, permanent or for the length of the project.
- IT Staffing Solutions
- Project-Based Resourcing
- Managed Service Transition
04 / Retire
Certified destruction, documented disposal, residual value recovered.
- IT Asset Disposition (ITAD)
- Certified Data Destruction
- E-Waste & Sustainability Reporting
- Hardware Buyback
The catalogue
15 services in Advisory & Lifecycle
Everything on the solution map under this domain. If a requirement isn't listed, it's usually still sourceable, so ask.
Strategy 5
- IT Strategy & Roadmap
- Virtual CIO
- Consulting & Integration
- Vendor Sourcing & Selection
- Contract Negotiation & Renewal
People 3
- IT Staffing Solutions
- Project-Based Resourcing
- Managed Service Transition
Expense Management 3
- Wireline Expense Management
- Mobility Expense Management
- Invoice Audit & Recovery
Lifecycle 4
- IT Asset Disposition (ITAD)
- Certified Data Destruction
- E-Waste & Sustainability Reporting
- Hardware Buyback
What changes
What you actually get out of it
Not a platform choice. A set of decisions with the reasoning attached, and someone accountable for them at renewal.
- One calendar showing every renewal date and the notice period attached to it.
- Billing errors recovered, with the credit chased to the statement.
- A roadmap the finance team recognises because it maps to their year.
- A disposal chain of custody you can produce on request.
Technology & spend audit4–6 weeks
01Contract, circuit and licence inventoryDiscovery
02Invoice audit across all providersDiscovery
03Renewal calendar and leverage mapDesign
04Roadmap tied to budget cyclesDesign
05Negotiation support at each renewalSource
06Asset disposition at end of lifeManage
Fee agreed up frontRequest scoping
Adjacent practices
Where Advisory & Lifecycle usually connects
A finding in one practice commonly implicates another. These are the three most often opened alongside this work.
36 services
CLDCloud & Managed Services
Where the workload should live, how it gets there, and who runs it at 2am, across public, private, hybrid and colocation.
Explore25 services
SECCybersecurity
Layered defense on the NIST framework: identify, protect, detect, respond, with compliance evidence you can hand to an auditor.
Explore7 services
BIZBusiness Services
The adjacent services clients keep asking us to source once we're already in the stack.
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This practice begins with an assessment.
Scope, duration and deliverables are agreed in writing before it starts. Ask for the scope document and we will send it.