IT Consulting Engagement: Cost-Out Diagnostic for a Logistics Group
Overview
What this challenge is about.
Receive an anonymized spend cube (vendor, category, country, contract end date), an infra utilization extract (compute, storage, network), and the application portfolio. Conduct 12 structured interviews with country IT leads and 4 vendor relationship managers. Identify the top 8 cost-out levers, size each with low/base/high savings, and assess delivery risk (service-impact, retention, change capacity). Build a 24-month execution roadmap, an investment-required-to-realize-savings model, and a board diagnostic. Deliver the diagnostic, the spend-cube analysis, the 24-month plan, and a 45-minute board readout.
The Brief
What you'll do, and what you'll demonstrate.
Identify and size 18 percent of IT cost-out across a EUR 142M spend base without service-level harm, sequenced over 24 months.
Earning criteria — what you'll demonstrate
- Conduct an IT-consulting cost-out diagnostic end-to-end
- Size savings with low/base/high ranges and named assumptions
- Negotiate competing levers against service-level risk
- Sequence 24 months of execution around contract end dates
Program Fit
Where this fits in your program.
Sharpens the same skills your degree expects you to demonstrate.
Skills
Skills you'll demonstrate.
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Careers
Roles this prepares you for.
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Product Manager
Product managers who can read an IT spend cube and tie it to service-level risk become credible partners in budgeting conversations.
This challenge sharpens
- cost-analysis
- stakeholder-communication
- risk-assessment