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Service Excellence in IT

Every organisation aims for a high quality of IT services. This is easier said than done. Lots of organisations struggle to keep their end users happy. Especially since the direct and indirect costs associated with unhappy customers and lost production hours are enormous. \'The Wow factor\' is a book on service excellence in IT. It explains how to improve on the quality of IT services and to save money at the same time.

Trends & IT 2009: Back to Basics

Theoretically, innovative IT can contribute to more efficient industrial processes, which will result in savings within diverse areas. Theory, however, gets lost in practice when the economic tide is going out. More than 160 IT managers within the DigitalBoardroom community have participated in our annual IT Trend survey. The answers were surprisingly unambiguous.

Outsourcing Performance

In collaboration with EquaTerra, each year Giarte carries out a survey into the performance of outsource service providers amongst Dutch and Belgian medium-sized and large organizations. More than 500 contracts are evaluated annually in the Netherlands with a total contract value of 13 billion euros. More than 300 such contracts are also evaluated annually in Belgium.

In the survey CFOs and CIOs assess their suppliers on various key performance indicators. The result is a detailed picture of the performance along with the strengths and weaknesses of all service providers. The survey is unique in terms of its scope and the level of the study's participants. No other survey produces such a detailed picture of the performances and the opportunities of suppliers in this market.

The survey provides an insight into the customer satisfaction of the various suppliers and their relative position in terms of other parties. The survey also considers the commercial opportunities. Not only does the study provide an insight into the chance that clients will extend existing contracts, but also into whether clients are considering whether to accommodate more services with their existing suppliers. This allows the survey to produce an overall picture of the performances and commercial opportunities in both countries. Because the surveys have now been running for several years, a clear picture also arises of the shifts in the market for outsourcing and the performance of suppliers.

The results are available to both clients and suppliers. For more information about the benchmark surveys please contact Marco Gianotten (Netherlands) or Jef Loos (EquaTerra Belgium).

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