ClearEdge delivers specialized services to help clients drive deep and long-term savings across their third-party IT spend. Our high-impact services offer the experience, guidance and tools needed to play and win the "Pricing Game" with suppliers. With our guaranteed ROI performance model, you pay only after you document the results. ClearEdge Services are available through an annual program or ala carte model.
ClearEdge has developed a series of tools to help clients analyze, evaluate and execute on their IT spending plans through its N-BAN Portal. These include a V.A.L.U.E.TM Guide Scorecard, Forecasting Tool and BAU Analytics.
ClearEdge offers additional services to support clients' IT process, which extend the V.A.L.U.E.TM Guide curriculum and engagement across our 12 IT solution category practices. These include:
- IT Sourcing Assessments
- Legal Support
- Negotiation Services
ClearEdge works directly with your team during the IT acquisition process, with a focus on driving out costs from your third-party spending by finding maximum available leverage, value and savings during a transaction.
ClearEdge enables clients to re-define IT solution standards and improve long-term economics with their most challenging supplier relationships and solution categories. Using the V.A.L.U.E.TM Guide methodology and a three-stage (Plan/Build/Execute) framework, ClearEdge Playbooks incorporate detailed analysis and best practices for more effective alignment, communication and engagement with suppliers to drive immediate and long-term savings from IT investments. Together, the client and ClearEdge create a customized game plan for each client's spending model and active deal, including strategies for the supplier relationship. Playbook services are available on an ala carte basis.
The ClearEdge V.A.L.U.E.TM Guide gives executives a system to inspect IT and sourcing alignment and value capture in both immediate transaction savings and against their long-term spending model.
ClearEdge clients have the opportunity to engage in peer group best practice discussions and case study debates to yield new ways of improving their immediate and long-term economics with their most challenging IT suppliers.
ClearEdge offers a broad curriculum of workshops designed to help clients use the V.A.L.U.E.TM Guide and build the awareness, teamwork and skills needed to understand and counter supplier sales systems and improve their "Pricing Game" performance.
ClearEdge works with client executives to analyze and address gaps in the alignment of their IT and Sourcing processes that are driving higher costs than industry peers. Together, we develop a program to educate, support and guide teams to engage suppliers more effectively and deliver short-term savings and long-term value in their IT spend.
ClearEdge maintains 12 IT practices that provide senior solution category and deal-making expertise, coupled with targeted vendor and market intelligence, to help clients drive hard-dollar savings with their major third-party suppliers.
