Oakland Consulting

 

Sourcing Consultancy

Customers looking for independent advice on whether to outsource, what to outsource, how to outsource, supplier management, SLA management and contract management, including renewals.

  • Analysis: Understand your objectives and readiness for outsourcing
  • Strategy: Determine the best overall outsourcing strategy for your business
  • Transition: Manage vendor selection, service costing, contract negotiation, establish service management framework
  • Implementation: Provide project management, review and monitoring, assist with the phased hand-over of control to your internal teams
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Action Learning in Action

Imagine an organisation that has been in existence for 500 years.  It is an acknowledged world leader in its field, and a household name in the English speaking world.  It is a large, profitable enterprise.

Oakland 'beefs' up ABP's tender process

After assessing the objectives, risks and the size of our ‘Externally hosted, fully managed service’ re-tender for a 20+ server environment, it was clear that we needed an experienced partner to lead us through the process.

Working in collaboration with Gordon McKenzie of Oakland meant that we had a clearly defined and easy to understand project plan aimed at meeting agreed contract & service improvements and financial targets.