Welcome

Op2i is a Business Improvement Firm
Specialising in Global Strategic Sourcing

Our Mission:

"To help client organisations cost effectively exploit resources, partners and markets in order to innovate, differentiate and win in a convergent world*."
* Convergent world - the interaction, overlap and absorption of different industries converging together in a more competitive and deregulated global market. A world where: skill sets are available everywhere; everywhere is connected; knowledge is ubiquitous; everything is now; everywhere is here; resources are globally distributed.

Dr. Bharat Vagadia, CEO of Op2i, is running a Best Practice Outsourcing Workshop at the IIR Managed Services and Network Sharing Conference on 19th April 2010. Click on this link to register with the IIR organisers.

Turnaround and improve poorly performing outsourcing programmes

Quickly locate and contract with global outsourcing partners

Our Services:

Mentor and support boards and individuals responsible for championing outsourcing in their business.
Facilitate, resolve and mitigate issues and disputes that inevitably arise between outsourcing client and provider partners.
Mediate the development of integrated governance programmes to extend the span of management control across the boundaries of outsourcing “partners” operations.

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Our Market Focus:

"Industries associated with and supported by ICT convergence."

ICT convergence - A state in which networks and intellect globally are interconnected, integrating all forms of electronic communications into a single universal transmission system which interconnect processing resources, and deliver all forms of content from one to the other, on whatever device and wherever an individual desires such content.

Research by Op2i into attitudes to outsourcing has clearly shown that the business functions most closely associated with and supported by ICT are the areas that businesses believe have the greatest propensity to be relocated or outsourced offshore.

Propensity to outsource offshore

Our Specialisation:

"Helping organisations transition and transform their business through global strategic sourcing."

Transitioning involves managing the move between current approaches to business and a desired future state of business (including: people, processes, technology, markets, products, finance) whilst embracing new opportunities, tools and talent on a global basis.

Transforming involves adapting business models, structures and value chains to compete and seek new opportunities afforded by convergence (changes in economic, regulatory, competitive, geographic, customer or technology conditions).

Global strategic sourcing includes a wide range of sourcing activity involving: external sourcing (outsourcing), whether onshore, nearshore, offshore, shared services or multi-sourcing; or internal sourcing activity including contracting in, transfering in and delegation (insourcing), in a globally distributed organisational context .

Our Expertise:

"Providing advice, thought leadership and professional management services (including strategic review, advisory, training, implementation, brokerage and managed external sourcing solutions) associated with the implementation of global sourcing strategies."

We have experienced business improvement practitioners and process consultants with deep consulting, operational and business experience within global strategic sourcing – from both client and supplier perspectives.

Our breadth and depth of knowledge provide a strong combination of business, commercial and programme management skills to help ensure organisations achieve optimal effectiveness and efficiency. Where appropriate we utilise external sourcing as a means of business transformation, to bring about large and sustained business improvement: reducing costs, accessing relevant skills, improving efficiency and enabling organisations to concentrate on what is core to their business. Our consultants only pursue the external sourcing option if this is the right strategy for the organisation.

Op2i's deep industry knowledge combined with strong quantitative analysis and leading-edge right practice thinking, facilitates the identification of opportunities for business improvement, and the assessment of possibilities for externally sourcing processes and/or functions as a value creation initiative. Note: we focus on the right practice for your business rather than the best practice in your industry, as the right practice is the best practice for you.

We anticipate and take advantage of the wealth of opportunity now available to our clients through global strategic sourcing, by working with them to reinvent their businesses with practical, well-conceived and flexible business strategies.

Op2i has several lateral partnerships that, together, offer a broad set of services across various functions of a company. Harnessing our relationships, extensive industry knowledge, strategic expertise, implementation and commercial skills, we accelerate growth and shareholder value for our clients.