Cost Reduction

Energy & Utilities
Reduce cost of IT organisation

Energy Supplier

Challenge

  • Centricas IT organization is expensive, complex and not delivering the scale and quality of services it should be.
  • Undertake a cost reduction exercise to reduce costs and simplify the organisaton

Approach

  • Working with the CIO COO and CTO to identify cost categories to investigate and ultimately assess
  • Utilising a zero based budgeting approach we identified all cost categories and related data, benchmarked and analysed the data to highlight key areas of concern and develop a criteria to support prioriisation
  • We then presented numerous opportunities to reduce the current cost base

Outcome

  • Reduced IT OPEX by 15% and CAPEX by 30%
  • Also highlighted key activities and behaviours that were responsible for increasing the cost base
  • Identified new ways of working to limit the ‘bad’ behaviours regarding spend

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