Regie process ensures direct cost savings and countercyclical investment

The coronavirus crisis is currently putting organizations in a difficult position. How can we keep costs under control (or reduce them), while ensuring that we continue to improve and innovate our services?

The term "countercyclical investing" sounds appealing, but is it responsible to make investments in these challenging times with COVID-19?

In difficult economic times, it is important to continue investing. To stay ahead of your competitors, you need to keep improving your services. Because innovation and ICT are almost synonymous, you need to get your ICT organization moving. This usually leads to a difficult conversation with your ICT manager or CIO, who, like Santa Claus, cries "Ho ho!" at high costs and complexity as the main barriers to innovation.

TransitieProfs claims that there is another way. With more than 300 projects since the last crisis (the "financial crisis" of 2008, which we would almost forget today), we have demonstrated that starting a management project can free up resources for innovation and enable cost savings. We do this by creating order in your application landscape and changing the way your people work. We put your suppliers in a different position that supports innovation.

This means that the innovation is paid for by cost savings that are not perceived as cutbacks. Sounds too good to be true?

“How can we use cost savings to create room for innovation?”

Your IT challenges have slowly crept into your organization over the past few decades. There has been an accumulation in the IT landscape that has led to complexity and high costs (under the heading of 'legacy'). But the worst thing is the inflexibility to innovate. The best countercyclical investment possible: 'bringing control to your IT organization' causes enough headaches. Yet it is possible.

We start by mapping out your landscape and interviewing your users. This is the best way to quickly identify the most important pain points and opportunities for improvement.

We translate this into a concrete business case with the help of our Enterprise Architects: thinking ahead and calculating for a period of 3-5 years and linking concrete transition plans to this.

We then help you overcome the most important hurdles by first working with you to establish a proof of concept for a managed service. This 'complete package' not only allows you to 'think small and then prove big', but also makes it clear what the investments will yield (ROI = return on investment), something that is often forgotten or difficult to calculate due to a lack of practical experience. Without a clear ROI, every investment will be seen as an expense, which is of course not the case.

After the planning and initial evidence, the first savings are already coming into view. We will now make new agreements with your suppliers (based on policy – service by service). And we will free up your people's hands for each improvement so they can work on real innovation and take further control. The cost savings you have already achieved are now working immediately for innovation!