The Economic Impact of IT Service and Support - Building Your Profit Center

Most IT departments can tell you how much they spend on support. But very few can quantify the economic impact of support. The result is that many IT service and support organizations are on the defensive when it comes to budgeting and spending, and often struggle just to get the funding needed to deliver adequate levels of support. In recent years a handful of pioneering organizations have adopted a different strategy when it comes to support – a strategy that emphasizes value over cost – and they routinely deliver benefits far in excess of their costs. Support groups that understand and quantify their value propositions gain a number of important advantages; chief among them is the ability to obtain funding and other resources based upon the economic benefits of the support they deliver. In this webcast, Jeff Rumburg will share a case study example that illustrates how one organization leveraged MetricNet’s ROI calculations and methodology to propel themselves from a cost center to a value-centric Center of Excellence within the Enterprise!