Contract and report-based control of service management in outsourcing

Starting Situation

  • The customer had outsourced the entire infrastructure to 3 towers and established a service integration layer through another provider
  • An organization now had to be established in the retained IT that controlled the provider via reports and governance bodies
  • The employees in the retained organization were untrained in managing service providers in operations. The employees in the retained organization were untrained in managing service providers in operation

 

Project Goals

  • Establishment of a team for functioning provider governance for service management
  • Establishment of provider governance
  • Control via Provider Governance Bodies
  • Control via contract breaches & via report

 

Procedure

  • Selection of managers and employees
  • Execution of contract training
  • Go-live, preparation and adaptation of the governance bodies fixed in the contract
  • Establishment and regular adaptation of a reporting framework for the development of a key performance indicator and contract-based control system

 

Results

  • Profound understanding of the contract in the retained organization
  • Established reporting framework
  • Established governance bodies
  • Significant increase in service quality over the lifecycle of the contract