The Client
Global NGO
Highlights
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10% savings in annual run cost
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ROI on the Essential work of over 800% in 12 months
The Challenge
Context:
The organisation had a misfiring EA function, seen as delivering little value to the business.
The Solution
Essential highlighted opportunities:
Over a 6-week period, a small client team and a consultant worked to populate Essential with information about the organisation’s business capabilities, high-level processes and IT applications. Leveraging the APM Pack and out-of- the box views, Essential was used to highlight business cost inefficiencies and where there were opportunities for rationalization.
The Outcome
Key Achievements:
Showed how the organisation was spending heavily on bespoke processes and technologies where cheaper commodity solutions would have been more appropriate
- Identified a number of applications that were unnecessarily duplicating the same capabilities for different processes
- Uncovered dozens of applications in ‘shadow IT’ that were creating unnecessary costs
- Initiation of a programme to rationalise high cost applications, implementing commodity processes and technology where appropriate and cutting the annual run cost by over 10%