Challenges of achieving operational efficiency
Are you feeling pressured to increase revenue and improve efficiency? Must you support new business initiatives, while also managing corporate re-alignments and acquisitions? To stay ahead you need a convergence strategy that streamlines your communications and optimises your workforce. Unify your business to drive customer service and sustainable growth into new markets. And let efficiency boost your bottom line.

Operational Efficiency IP overview

Operational Efficiency (OE) is an approach that establishes an efficient and complete networked infrastructure. It takes you on a journey to consolidate, converge and extend your systems and networks. Building an application- and unified communications-ready infrastructure can help you reduce costs and improve service levels.

Integration of voice, data and applications takes convergence to the next level and can change the way people live and work. BT’s global capabilities in these services connect people to people, people to systems, and business to business.

This converged platform and service gives you the agility to align business processes within verticals. OE can help banks speed up transactions and connect branches, manufacturers streamline supply chains, and fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) companies provide field representatives with up-to-date information.

Operational Efficiency IP streamlines your business

Operational Efficiency IP can deliver these benefits:

Commercial flexibility: Consolidate global and regional services to achieve economies of scale and reduce supplier numbers. This can free up budget for re-investment.
Specialised IT skills: Legacy systems require diverse and specialised IT skills, but managed services complement and reduce your requirements for in-house skills.
Simplicity: A complete service with fewer suppliers simplifies administration and problem resolution.
Enhanced productivity through collaboration: Users require access to a multitude of applications from a range of devices as work styles change. Convergence optimises application performance, minimises downtime and enables mobility.
Compliance: Operational Efficiency IP helps you comply with changing legislative requirements, such as Basel II, providing flexible working for parents and cutting carbon emissions.