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Capability

Cost Out Programs Lean costs, resilient operations

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Why it matters
Rising IT and operational costs often become locked into the business baseline, reducing flexibility and eroding margins over time. A structured cost out program identifies where waste occurs, distinguishes essential spend from avoidable expense, and builds a roadmap for sustainable reduction without sacrificing quality or security.
Our approach to cost reduction

Programs are designed around a combination of analytics, governance, and disciplined execution. Opportunity catalogues provide a top-down perspective on where the biggest savings lie, while bottom-up scans of contracts, systems, and processes validate what is achievable in practice. Each initiative is evaluated against impact, effort, and risk, ensuring that quick wins provide early results while structural changes reset the long-term cost curve.

By focusing on infrastructure, applications, data, and licenses, the program not only reduces direct spend but also simplifies the operating environment, making it easier to manage and scale in the future.

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Key focus areas

  • Spend analytics and opportunity catalogue
    Identify, rank, and sequence cost reduction opportunities across infrastructure, software, and vendors.
  • Vendor and contract optimisation
    Consolidate suppliers, redesign licensing metrics, and prepare data-driven renegotiations supported by playbooks and timelines.
  • Operating model simplification
    Introduce automation, retire redundant systems, and rationalise cloud and on-premise environments in line with business needs.
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Delivering measurable impact

Measurement is central to the program. Dashboards and governance provide real-time visibility into savings by application, service tower, and business unit. Finance and line managers share the same single source of truth, which builds credibility and reduces disputes about numbers. Sustainability is embedded by reducing idle capacity, eliminating unused assets, and aligning financial and carbon savings, creating a double dividend of lower cost and lower impact.

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Outcomes for your business

Clients benefit from a leaner cost base, stronger negotiating position with vendors, and a more transparent view of operational spend. Governance keeps programs focused and avoids false economies, while building internal capability to sustain savings beyond the program horizon.

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