Original article [French] https://www.timefrance.fr/les-temps-forts-partner-content/bga/ Faced with soaring IT spending, companies are seeking to better control their budgets without slowing down their technological transformation. With its highly specialized approach, BG&A helps IT departments regain control of their costs and sustainably optimize their infrastructures. Manage your budget, instead of defending it As digital infrastructures become more complex, IT departments face a...

Hi, Most IT cost exercises start with good intentions and end up drowning in data. You pull every invoice, every contract, every forecast line… and suddenly you’re three weeks deep trying to make sense of hundreds of small items that will never move the needle. Here’s the filter we use on every engagement to avoid exactly that trap: Focus 80% of your effort only on services that represent more than 0.5% of your total scoped annual spend (we call these Critical). Give solid attention to...

Hi, Most IT Heads I speak with have already done serious work on their costs. They’ve pulled the main data sources, challenged vendors, and pushed for better visibility. And yet the surprises still appear. A number moves. A vendor invoice lands higher than expected. A spillover hits the wrong cost centre. Finance asks questions in the next steering meeting that no one saw coming. In almost every case, the root cause is not bad planning or poor forecasting. It’s simpler than that. The three...