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| Outsourcing Supplement Sponsor: Swingtide |
September 1, 2007 |
Swingtide, Inc. is a technology and management consulting firm dedicated to client results and service excellence. Swingtide consultants have the experience to solve complex business problems in rapidly changing environments.
Founded in 2001 with backing from Pequot Ventures and private investors, Swingtide helps its consulting clients understand and control IT costs, efficiently outsource, and effectively complete mergers, acquisitions and divestitures.
Swingtide consultants help you answer four important questions:
1. How do we run IT as a business?
Your internal customers have high expectations, and so do you. Swingtide shows you how to make their costs, and yours, predictable and transparent.
2. How do we save IT money without disrupting our business?
It isn’t always obvious how to trim the fat and leave the lean alone. Swingtide shows you how to achieve substantial savings while avoiding the mistake of cutting too close to the bone.
3. Which IT functions should we do ourselves, and which ones should we outsource?
The decision whether to cook at home or carry dinner in can be made on a whim, but whether to outsource IT functions should not. Swingtide breaks it down for you so you can make the right call. Unique among IT optimization practices in the industry, Swingtide has practical experience in all domains (financial, contractual, technical) of all the phases of outsourcing engagements, from scoping, sourcing, implementation and transition to unwinding and insourcing.
4. What happens if we suddenly grow a duplicate IT department or lose half the one we have?
Mergers, acquisitions and divestitures can take the best-laid IT plans and turn them into shredder fodder. Swingtide shows you how to keep things going in the most challenging of changing times.
www.swingtide.com
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