Our Services


Professional Services Introduction

‘All great change will be met by resistance. It is not the change that is the problem, anyone can change. It is the resistance to change that is the problem. Resistance is belief and a belief can be changed.’

SCS employees have provided consultancy to FTSE 100 and leading UK companies for more than 10 years. Our Professional Services practice offers specialist impartial advice in designing, improving and operating ICT technology. We can also help organisations to extract benefits from both outsourced and managed services.

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Sourcing

SCS believe that to deliver efficient and effective ICT services to a business, it is necessary to establish an appropriate sourcing and delivery model. We will work with your organisations to define the most appropriate sourcing strategy for you, whether it involves in, out, multi-sourcing, do-it-yourself or even a combination of these.

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Transformation

Voice and data transformation / convergence has been the central proposition of the communications industry over the past few years. SCS’s consultants have been at the leading edge of this change from the outset. This means your organisation can benefit from our significant experience in delivering the business benefits available from convergent technologies.

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Stabilisation

If an organisation faces issues with the communication services it provides to its business, SCS’s skills and proven capability can make a significant difference. SCS can help you define and drive the delivery of a service improvement programme that is based on our Known State, Stable Platform™ process. This covers the associated service, underlying technology, support processes and the contractual aspects to address issues and fully realise business benefits.

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Telecoms Expense Management

Communications expenses are notoriously complex to manage and can easily get out of control if the organisation does not maintain the adequate skilled resource. This is regardless of whether the organisation takes bundles of products from various suppliers or a complete managed service. To address this SCS provide a range of services which help its clients maintain complete cost control of Telecommunications expenses.

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Call / Contact Centre

Our consultants have extensive knowledge and experience in this area, having worked with service providers and leading FTSE 100 companies on managed, outsource and contact centre services. We are at the forefront of design and deployment of business focused next generation contact centre solutions which have either replaced or complemented traditional call centres.

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Work Force Optimisation

SCS consultants have specialist knowledge and experience in work force optimisation (WFO) relating to the design, delivery and operation of the underlying technologies. We have successfully led and delivered a range of WFO solutions to a variety of organisations.

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Apps Performance Management

SCS believe application performance management (APM) is central to an organisation’s ability to deliver on its business promises to both customers and employees. As such we have developed a range of cost effective services based on next generation management tools.

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Contract Resourcing

Further to our Professional Services packages, SCS also provide Contract Resourcing to its clients. Where other recruiters rely on job boards and social networking tools to find resource, at SCS we pride ourselves on being more closely linked to the talent pools. We map the contractor world in our niche areas so we know where the best people are as well as when they are available.

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Our Work

Sourcing engagement for a one of the UK's largest financial service organisations

 

SCS were engaged by one of the UK’s largest financial services companies ... As a result SCS has enabled the client to achieve significant overall cost reduction in excess of 30%, whilst at the same time de-risking the service migration ... our knowledge of the underlying technologies which were used to deploy the services, we were able to negotiate in excess of £400k worth of real benefit from suppliers.

 

Sourcing

SCS engaged on business transformation initiative

 

SCS was engaged by a leading communications services organisation to support the integration of a new business unit. The successful delivery of this programme has enabled the communications services organisation to extend it services and therefore revenues ... in excess of £1m.

 

Transformation

SCS resolve major issues with a contact centre and back office transformation programme

 

Initially engaged by one of the largest financial services companies in the UK, SCS led a service improvement initiative to resolve major issues with a contact centre and back-office transformation programme... unable to realise the expected financial benefits ... losing business and their brand was being damaged. ... relationships ... under severe stress.

As a trusted third party SCS worked with both the client and service provider to stabilise the existing service ... enabling the transformation programme to proceed, delivering the expected benefits... a clear breach of contract was avoided and the relationship with the service provider improved considerably; avoiding the associated legal and transitional costs ... estimated to be in excess of £1m to the client and in excess of £4m to the service provider. The service provider also retained a revenue stream which was in excess of £40m.

 

Stabilisation