Consultancy Partnership

For many service providers, their service offering is constrained by the availability of high quality technical and professional resource when they are busy, but bench costs are too high in periods of reduced activity. Managing either scenario efficiently takes considerable management effort.

Under the Reed Consultancy Partnering Programme we are able to offer a solution to this problem and to provide a significant reduction in the time, effort and cost required to maintain the service levels you require. We are also able to back Professional Service providers at the deliverable and programme levels. This includes the ability to back off ongoing project leadership and QA effort and work packages to Reed PS. Service providers can also offset risk. Reed PS is able to deploy package services, full teams, tools and PSO within very short time-scales.

This approach has already worked with a number of companies and the benefits are fast to realise and can provide significant ongoing top and bottom improvement.

The following are some of the benefits:

• Reduce your fixed and external staffing costs
• Reduce your static bench costs to zero
• Improve consultancy utilisation rates (to beyond 85%)
• Improve revenue and margin levels per programme / assignment
• Deliver the highest quality consultancy expertise to your clients
• Relieve revenue earning personnel from costly admin, resource planning and management tasks, using experienced partner project administrators and managers
• Mitigate resource based project risk