As the IT Leader of your growing company that's embarking on an upcoming merger or acquisition (M&A), it's your responsibility to ensure a strategic telecom roadmap that leads to an optimized network.
Here are the 5 steps to make sure you're covering your telecom bases in an upcoming M&A.
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1 - Capture
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Locate Invoices
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Pull CSRs
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Find contracts (this is hard!!)
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Confirm portal access
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Build location lists
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Conduct Documented Site Surveys
2 - Organize
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Load base data into the information model
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Map contracts to inventory
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Map Service Assets to locations
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Capture important contract terms
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Pull actual spend data off invoices
3 - Evaluate
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Closed locations
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Over-provisioned services
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Unneeded features
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High MRCs
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Re-contracting opportunities, ETFs
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Ring Outs: Alarm, Fax, elevator identification
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High Mobile Data Users
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Zero Usage Devices
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Lack of Redundancy
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Get quotes and service availability
4 - Roadmap
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Findings and Recommendations
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Timeline View of Actions
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Executive Presentation
5 - Execute
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Tactical Savings Capture and cleanup
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Technology Innovations (SDWAN, SIP, UCAAS)
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Vendor analysis based on technology needed, economic evaluation, service needs
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Network Monitoring and Management
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Renewals and re-contracting
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Carrier Conversion Projects
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Redundancy Implementation Project
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If you lack the resources, expertise, or bandwidth to build and implement your telecom M&A roadmap, we're happy to consult.
Renodis manages Telecom environments for some of the country's leading brands.