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05/05/2020

DID YOU KNOW?

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03/05/2020

WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT TO SEE WITH SERVICES VIRTUALISATION?

You can expect to achieve the following:
1. Accelerated service delivery,
2. Lower resource cost,
3. Broadening of your customer base (Co-opetition), and
4. A transformation of the profitability profile normally attributed to services businesses.

01/05/2020

WHEN DOES SERVICES VIRTUALISATION TYPICALLY START DELIVERING RESULTS?

Services Virtualisation typically starts delivering results when the consulting firm has invested a few hours to understand how the platform can virtualise their services, most firms start making additional revenue within 2 weeks of build, with some firms reporting that the new revenue stream exceeded their original business within 12 months.

30/04/2020

IS VIRTUALISATION IN YOUR FUTURE?

Services Virtualisation become increasingly important to businesses in the future because it just makes sense.

If knowledge can be encoded in a dynamic questioning process that produces a level of insight usually on required from interacting with a consultant, they all of a sudden, services can be democratized, medical diagnoses can be made anywhere, legal judgments can be produced, and new strategies can be developed in places that may or may not have been able to afford them in the past.

28/04/2020

STILL NOT CONVINCED? WHY VIRTUALISE?

Firms start seeing a return when they start to offer their virtualised services to other consulting firms in non-competitive jurisdictions. This intellectual property leverage commences a flow of revenue that is not normally possible. All of a sudden, firms are now able to generate export revenue without spending hours or days on flights and in airports.

26/04/2020

2020 IS WELL UNDERWAY, HAVE YOU DEVELOPED YOUR VIRTUALISATOIN STRATEGY AS YET?

To get started firms often start looking in a services virtualisation marketplace for a DIY tool on services virtualisation.

This will guide them through the process and will help them to prepare their virtualised service. Some will even engage a consultant themselves to build their first one or two tools.

24/04/2020

DO YOU WORK WITH ONE OF THESE?

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23/04/2020

POWERING SERVICES BUSINESS SUCCESS

The key success factors identified to date relate to the commitment to developing a strong capability in virtualisation tool development. Without the level of commitment and an understanding of the importance to the future survival of the business, many firms will make a half-hearted effort and deploy a tool that ultimately becomes an orphan, unsupported and unused.

21/04/2020

HOW IS SERVICES VIRTUALISATION BEING USED BY OTHER BUSINESSES?

Leading firms are now generating new form of revenue that is not linked to time. By deploying these “virtualised services” in a validated marketplace, they are able to benefit from international marketing that they may not have the experience or resources to undertake themselves.

19/04/2020

It important to learn more about Services Virtualisation from other businesses because others will have experienced ups and downs with virtualisation.

Some product offerings will have been technically successful whilst others will be commercially successful. The more you can understand before you get started the greater the chance of creating a beneficial outcome from the outset.

17/04/2020

In implementing your strategy and bringing your new Virtualisation Manager up-to speed, you can look for further information on other Services Virtualisation techniques by reviewing case studies on vendor websites, watching interviews with other services business owners and downloading whitepapers on virtualisation (such as this one).

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Services virtualisation is transforming the consulting industry by enabling the capture of existing knowledge and intellectaul assets in new ways, enabling the creators to earn revenue each and every time their intellectual property used.  See below for our whitepaper on Services Virtualisation 

16/04/2020

THE "POWER USER" STRATEGY

Once you have selected a service to virtualise select a "power user' from within the organisation (can be founder or partner).

This person is often the individual or group in the services business currently responsible for methodology development. Typically their title will be augmented with the title “Services Virtualisation Manager”, which will often be part-time initially.