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Experience Assessment Services

Measuring your strategic relationships and workforce experience. 
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Time to Assess Your Enterprise-Provider Relationships?

We all know how hard it is to establish and maintain any type of good relationship, and that includes how tough it is to make sure the relationships between a company and its providers stay positive. How confident are you in the strength of your client-provider relationships? Are you helping each other to be successful? Will the relationship continue into the future? Take this self-assessment to benchmark your own relationship and learn more about where you could improve.

Elevate the Experience & Value of Your Strategic Partnerships and Services

Usually, it all starts off on the right foot. But when services fall short or relationships fray, performance and productivity suffer. A competitive rebid can cost millions, and it can be difficult to put your finger on exactly where an experience or relationship is faltering or where to invest to ensure the greatest ongoing value. So, how do you assess and optimize your relationships with providers, shared services and workforce?

ISG offers a customized and comprehensive assessment that diagnoses the current situation – what is working, what is not working and what can be optimizedx. We help companies and their providers learn more about the health of their partner relationships and workforce experiences through diagnostic data and benchmarking. We also offer leadership-alignment optimization since more than 90 percent of IT projects over $10 million fail to achieve their potential, with alignment and lack of it as a documented root cause.

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Voice of the Investor

Get reliable, detailed data about what your investors are thinking and feeling to guide decision-making, assess the impact of changes and make course corrections early. 

WHAT WE DO

Gauge & Recalibrate the Lived Experience of Your Partnerships & Workforce

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Partnership Experience Assessment

Deepen your understanding of your company's strategic relationships and get recommendations for optimization.

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Shared Services Experience Assessment

Help IT and other internal, shared services enable the business units they serve and develop strategic partnerships.

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Workforce Experience Assessment

Evaluate your workforce satisfaction with services, tools and experiences to increase talent retention and productivity.

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Leadership-Alignment Optimization

Make sure leaders are on the same page for initiatives and optimal everyday business outcomes.

Want to learn more about how we can help you assess and elevate your strategic relationships and workforce experiences?

HOW WE DO IT

Find out what's working, what's not working and what can be optimized

INVESTIGATE

An assessment specific to your unique context

Leveraging our proprietary library of industry- and tower-specific questions, we help you uncover the root causes of sticky operational issues. 

Our expertise across both technology stacks and industry verticals allow us to create a targeted assessment for your business needs. 

Interpret

Diagnostics from a wide range of sources

We'll quickly get to the origin of your pain points by analyzing findings from several sources, like quantitative assessments, qualitative surveys, market intelligence and benchmarking data. 

From there, ISG helps you understand the complex nuances of interconnected problems and areas of potential growth in partner relationships and/or workforce experiences. 

 

Act

On-the-ground support for positive change

Clients rely on our deep history and relationships with the provider ecosystem, as well as our enterprise change (OCM), business operations, cost optimization and future of work practices, to optimize partnerships and experiences. 

After providing recommendations, next steps can be self-serve, or our trusted independent advisory can help you move from action plan to action. 

Why Choose ISG?

ISG has completed 200-plus relationship-health engagements over about a decade, helping organizations assess and improve their relationships and workforce experience. The assessment itself is a rapid and enlightening experience, and the results are customized to your business and actionable immediately upon handover. You get recommendations that are easy to consume, solution-centric and prioritized for your organization, so you’ll know where to focus your limited resources – and exactly how to make your next move.

Key Features:

ISG’s Experience Assessment Center provides an objective, independent and proven approach to understanding the health of client/provider relationships and workforce experience.

Standardized quantitative questions diagnose common problems, benchmarked against the market

Thematic analysis on qualitative feedback, such as pain points & change needs

Baseline of performance that can help measure impact of OCM activities

Recommendations from ISG on best practices derived from broader industry experience

Targeted focus on how to address your key challenges

Identification of next steps to drive improvements and position the relationships for success

Meet Our Team

Jaimee Colenso

Jaimee Colenso

Research Manager

Jaimee Colenso

Jaimee Colenso

Since joining ISG as a Data Analyst in 2015, Jaimee has been involved in the design and delivery of over 15 ISG UserX™ programs.

Jaimee’s focus at ISG is managing the benchmarking database and analyzing business-to-business engagements for some of the largest Australian and international organizations. She takes an active role in the end-to-end research process from design to data analysis and report delivery. One of Jaimee’s most noteworthy projects at ISG is to expand the ISG UserX™ question library and the ISG Performex™ database, which has led to a considerable broadening of ISG’s benchmarking capabilities.

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Sebastian Chia

Sebastian Chia

Research Manager

Sebastian Chia

Sebastian Chia

Sebastian Chia is a Research Manager who analyses the health of business to business engagements among some of the largest Australian and international organizations. Sebastian specializes in the analysis, benchmarking and reporting of customer satisfaction in technology service levels within local and global technology supply chains. He is skilled in report design and delivery, survey coding and benchmarking of end user research.

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Narelle Hanratty

Consulting Manager

Narelle Hanratty

Narelle is a specialist in assessing the health and effectiveness of business-to-business relationships, the factors that determine performance, and how to optimise those relationships. She has deep complementary experience in assessing the impact of technology services and systems such as Service Desk, onboarding and devices on employees and the organisation as a whole. 

Her role includes analysing and benchmarking the results of these assessments, communicating the findings with clarity, and providing new actions and possibilities.

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