What we do

We work closely together with our clients and help you in deciding and executing on how to optimize your current IT delivery

We work closely together with and help you in deciding and executing on how to optimize your current IT delivery and on what actually works in the ever faster digital revolution. Our assignments put us at the forefront of cloud computing giving us expert knowledge of how you can become a truly data driven company.

IT procurement and sourcing advisory services

Sourcing in the right way is increasingly becoming a competitive advantage. With our primary focus on IT services in the digital age, we assist our clients in the strategic sourcing decisions and help them with implementation and continuous improvement.

In short, we bring value in the entire sourcing lifecycle from strategy over procurement to governance and on – going benefits realization. Protecting and maximizing the investment in IT and the people behind it plays a crucial role today, more than ever. This expands to the entire sourcing system, be it internal or external sourcing.

Most IT services are produced and delivered through a detailed and often complex orchestration of numerous systems and applications. At Advisor House we know the value of sourcing IT in the right way and we use this competence to the benefit of our clients. In this way we can help our clients maximizing the value of their IT investments and reducing risk. Our approach and areas of expertise within sourcing advisory include:

Developing the right IT sourcing strategy that is aligned to the business and IT strategy, that can be executed and lead to reaching the strategic goals.

Collaborative sourcing process by adopting market dialogue and a collaborative mindset to establish and maintain mutually beneficial partnerships between our clients and their service providers.

Identify sourcing areas that can be improved and maximized, including reviewing current sourcing set-ups, strategic supplier base, partnerships and delivery performance, re-negotiate where feasible and expand corporation with selected partners.

Multi-vendor sourcing governance and service integration (SIAM) – balancing service tower efficiency with end-to-end service delivery.

Drive larger sourcing initiatives such as tenders and re-tenders to ignite change projects.

Contract and vendor management by adopting a strategic approach to vendor management for optimum value creation and benefits realization.

Contact
IT PROCUREMENT AND SOURCING ADVISORY SERVICES

Bo Smith

IT Strategy and sourcing advisory
info@advisorhouse.com
+46 8 52 500 666

Digital&IT and Business Transformation

All organizations today face a need for digital business transformation. Having the right IT environment in place at any time is a key prerequisite to be able to compete in tomorrow’s digitalized world and in the future. We have the hands-on experience and know-how to help you navigate through the on-going digitalization and beyond, with a focus on Digital IT

Our capabilities within Digital IT evolve around how we can best assist our clients in the on-going shift and transformation of their businesses to the digital age, and beyond. We work from both ends, with core competences about the technology behind and how it enables the business and services ultimately delivered to customers.

Focusing on how IT system and services are procured, sourced, continuously improved and managed in an optimized way, allows us to bring real and lasting value to clients. We work closely together with them, often as an integrated part of their core teams, on creating a digital infrastructure that is flexible, on-strategy and evolves with, or defines, the future of the business.

At Advisor House we are proud to be retained as trusted advisors and help our clients with the development and implementation of digital and IT strategies. We assist in the set-up and adjustment of the organizational design, IT operating models and in general support leaders in complex decision-making and continuous improvement initiatives. Often we assume lines roles, as interim IT-managers and strategic advisors or are engaged as program and projects managers. Our core competences and typical assignments include among other:

IT Strategy, Management, Governance and Benefits Realization

IT program and project management leading specific change projects

Continuous improvement across the entire specter of IT services

Agile approach and fast implementation focus by use of agile methods such as Lean and Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)

Transition and Transformation project management in connection with insourcing and outsourcing projects

Security Enablement from strategy development to review of current IT security level and implementation of resilient security systems

Contact
DIGITAL&IT AND BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION

Karl Jungstedt

IT Management, operations, continuous improvement <br> Certified SAFe® 5 Program Consultant
info@advisorhouse.com
+46 8 52 500 666

Legal services & negotiation support

Commercial law and IT law are often both complex and require quick solutions. We provide business-oriented easily accessible expert legal advice and assist our clients in negotiations and contract drafting.

Our legal consultants offer proven practical experience in combination with staying alert from on-going legal training and skills building. This benefits both our people and our clients. Our legal expertise is centered around commercial law, IT law and related negotiations.

We support our clients in different ways, e.g. as interim legal counsels in legal departments or as legal advisors in projects where contract drafting, be it of a simpler nature or extensive and more complex service agreements, is blended with expert legal advice and legal project management. Our ambition is to be perceived as experts on providing legal advice and at the same time be pragmatic in finding sound solutions considering also the commercial perspective. The areas we most often work with include:

Commercial agreements including drafting and advising on shareholder agreements, partnerships, investment agreements, development agreements, distribution and various kinds of cooperation agreements

IT- and technology agreements, drafting among other outsourcing service agreements, MSAs and APSs, cloud and ‘as-a-service’ agreements, system agreements, licensing, transfer, technology acquisition agreements, as well as advising on internet and e-commerce issues

Data protection and integrity focusing on General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other issues regarding personal data and privacy, being involved in the drafting of e.g. DPAs and also supporting DPOs in the follow-up and audit phases

Negotiations, mediation and dispute resolution providing strategic and operational negotiation support, often involved from the outset and though the entire contract negotiation and facilitating mediation and solution advice in case of disputes

Public and private procurement with primary focus on procurement of IT services and IT solutions and related legal frameworks, the public procurement legislation, tender structuring and drafting as well tender compliance and evaluation

Contact
LEGAL SERVICES & NEGOTIATION SUPPORT

Patricia Radler Smith

Legal advice and negotiations
info@advisorhouse.com
+46 8 52 500 666