Designing and executing the right IT sourcing strategy

IT sourcing is becoming ever important for CIOs, who are under pressure to reduce costs and transform key operational areas. Even where progress has been made with outsourcing, boards are now looking for more. The CIO will be held accountable for driving increasingly complex levels of change and sourcing is a way of achieving this objective.

Sourcing IT has not proven to be the one-size-fits-all solution that many hoped, and getting the right advice is not easy. At PA Consulting Group (PA), it is about your business agenda, not the sourcing transaction or technology solution that is at the forefront of our mind. 

At PA, we think differently about sourcing.  We have over 250 experts working internationally on sourcing programmes, focused around our shared services and outsourcing centre of excellence. We combine our extensive knowledge and insight to provide independent consultancy, underpinned by the highest ethical standards, to help our clients achieve the right sourcing solution for them.

This unique approach means that the PA team challenges traditional thinking in a transparent way, to ensure clients understand how all parts of the sourcing lifecycle can support their wider, long term business objectives rather than take a narrow focus on the basic transaction.

By working with you to understand your organisation’s ambitions and strategic direction, PA helps devise and execute the right IT sourcing strategy. We work with you to develop transparency and understand the commercial and operational realities to balance cost and risk. We also incorporate IT service management bringing the customer's perspective of the IT organisation's contribution to the success of the business. In PA's experience, your ability to be realistic, invest wisely, and develop strong relationships with service providers is key and we can help organisations get it right. 

PA has the relevant skills and experience to guide you through the entire sourcing life-cycle from strategy definition to delivery and beyond.

To understand how PA can help your organisation take advantage of changes in the IT Outsourcing industry, please contact us now.