Cost Reduction

A 90-Day Plan to Reduce Costs Without Crippling Business Operations.  This Compass article outlines five elements of a strategy designed to do more with less – to optimize efficiency and identify new and minimally painful ways to reduce costs and generate results in the short term, while establishing a foundation for future innovation and competitive advantage.

A global financial services firm engaged Compass to analyze its Application Development function, focusing on cost drivers of development project work, and the specific impact of complexity, project size, and process inefficiencies. Compass' recommendations resulted in significant savings.

The allocation of IT costs to business activities is essential to an effective demand management strategy. This Compass article examines IT cost allocation’s potential to deliver operational benefit, and outlines strategies for applying cost allocation to performance improvement initiatives.

Businesses today are increasingly optimistic that the slash-and-burn days of IT budgeting are behind us, and that growth, innovation, and investment will once again make an appearance on the corporate agenda. This Compass article examines practical steps CIOs can take to work with the business to ensure effective and strategic use of IT resources.

A global consumer packaged goods manufacturer engaged Compass to conduct a proxy price analysis of infrastructure services provided by a tier one vendor, with the objective of identifying gaps and opportunities to improve cost efficiency and service quality, specifically in the area of storage.