Atos Origin delivers a complete concept evaluation service that enables telecoms companies to construct a solid business case for new product or service development and transformation projects focused on infrastructure. With dedicated expertise and methodologies in people change and process management for the telecoms industry, we provide the processes, tools and templates to justify the expenditure on a strategic business initiative and illustrate the benefits.

Typical business issues that our services address:

• Telecoms companies needing to converge their voice and IP networks to maintain competitiveness
• The need to clearly justify and track the case for transformation projects that will drive down operational expenditure and avoid unnecessary capital expenditure
• The difficulty of obtaining, or the poor quality of information on the existing situation.

Whatever the specific requirement, our experienced consultancy teams have the proven operations, technical and finance skills to qualify the brief and construct a robust programme plan and financial case, ensuring that commitment to the process is tested at senior levels.

Developing the business case

At the outset we’ll carefully define the requirements, analyse the case for change, forecast future outcomes and plan how to get there. Next we focus on the process of engagement, examining change leadership, stakeholder impact and the establishment of breakthrough teams that can develop the programme in detail. Finally, we consider the delivery phase, with the focus on implementation, operational alignment and definition of stringent metrics to measure results.

A proven, pragmatic approach

Our concept evaluation consultancy service encompasses financial modelling, options analysis, balanced scorecard, scenario planning, risk assessment and transition phasing elements that can be developed to the appropriate level of detail required by the board.

We take a pragmatic and focused approach, drawing on a range of specialist resources, including a high-level, assumptions-based tool for scenario modelling that allows for the population of more granular data as it becomes available. We continually monitor and review the client’s IT requirements at every stage, ensuring that we integrate their future service and technology roadmap data into the model, align the model with their accounting principles and provide informed guidance on the implementation plan.

Throughout the concept evaluation process, we apply best practice strategies to ensure that we optimise and integrate people, processes, systems and data in the most effective way, supported with reliable metrics to thoroughly validate the viability of the business case.