Benchmarking
Benchmarking
Benchmarking
Benchmarking
Benchmarking
Benchmarking
Vendor and Service Management
Vendor and Service Management
CHERUB
ADVISORY & CONSULTING
IT sourcing for maximum value
Achieving Your Outcomes
by identifying the Right Services,
supported by the Right Supplier,
backed by the Right Contract,
for the Right Price.
Our Services
​Our team of consulting sourcing experts provides specialised support in engaging with vendor markets. Leveraging their knowledge, experience, and innovative solutions, they are committed to assisting you in reaching your objectives, allowing you to concentrate on pivotal decision-making processes.
Cherub Advisory Services offers you the invaluable opportunity to tap into the expertise of our internationally acclaimed professionals. They provide guidance, share cutting-edge insights, and offer practical tools and resources that span the entire spectrum of the IT sourcing process, ensuring comprehensive support at every stage.
Using our established, evidence-based approach to evaluating sourcing impact, we can help you turn your sourcing obstacles into essential elements for success that align with your business objectives.
Looking to gain a deeper understanding of your IT sourcing challenges? Have you found a solution and need validation or proof points from an independent source?
Cherub Consulting's unique solutions deliver data-driven insights and vital inputs to empower you to address challenges effectively and confidently and move ahead with your sourcing decisions.
Why Choose Cherub Advisory and Consulting
Cherub ensures that all our engagements meet and exceed the standards expected by our clients. Our discipline, experience, proven and tested approaches, tools and methodologies, ensure that we always deliver a high value proposition to our clients on all our engagements.
You get what you expect from a Cherub engagement
The Right Service
We work closely with our clients throughout our projects, actively seeking stakeholder engagement and involvement. Our processes are designed to ensure the outcomes meet your expectations and requirements. We don't just 'tick the boxes'.
The Right Price
Cherub has up-to-date benchmarking data so that the client can perform a "sanity check” on fees, and appreciate the connection between the fees and service schedules. This also gives visibility of pricing that is out of line with the market, or irrelevant for the services being requested.
The Right Supplier
Cherub have been undertaking considerable analysis of the multiple IT Service Providers in the Australian marketplace. Each analysis of each IT Service Provider is called a Cherub Insight. As a result of this research Cherub have a deep understanding of the Supplier market, its players, their capabilities, and how they may best be leveraged for a client.
The Right Approach
Our sourcing lifecycle is indicative of a “traditional approach” to sourcing services, however we are flexible and innovative in methods and techniques designed to meet a client’s “less traditional” needs.
The Right Team
The client can have Cherub as a dedicated resource on the project, which is advantageous where an internal team may be insufficient in number, inexperienced, lack process methodologies and tools or be unable to devote adequate time to the overall process.
The Right Contract
Cherub’s comprehensive due diligence and negotiation processes, procedures and checklists position a client for an optimal outcome resulting in a favourable deal. We guide and assist the client in the conduct of a rigorous due diligence process that identifies potential risks and establish or agree mitigation steps to manage those risks.
The Right Decision
Our evaluation approach uses our unique Value-for-Money assessment tool that helps assess the true value of supplier responses. The model recognises that scores arrived at in the evaluation process must be related to fees charged, and is more complex than simply picking the lowest price, or the highest evaluation score. It also appreciates that there are always constraints that must be considered, such as budget or minimum acceptable service.
The Right Transition
To maintain the momentum of a successful negotiation, the client must be able to resource, manage and support transition to the negotiated arrangement. Cherub can support the client team by acting in a transition manager role, or by providing transition oversight and reviews at strategic milestones to ensure foundation building blocks are in place and operating before moving forward.
The Right Supplier Management
Effective on-going management is critical to ensuring you continue to receive value for money services, as well as delivering on the original business case.
Cherub's ORBIT tool and templates designed are to assist our clients with best practice supplier and services management.
The Right Tools
We use our industry leading templates that have been developed over many years with many clients in a wide range of industries, with the benefit being the reduction in cycle time that comes from issuing an accurate and complete document to the market.
Our Clients
Cherub Advisory and Consulting believe that real business value can only be achieved when specialist skills are combined with real industry experience.
Optimising IT Sourcing Solutions
"Drawing on Cherub’s wealth of experience in providing sourcing advisory services across the entire sourcing lifecycle, we are fully prepared to assist you in mitigating risk, attaining your business objectives, and optimising the value of your IT sourcing solutions."
