An independent answer to whether IT investment was built to keep the lights on, or to help the business grow.
8X
Guaranteed return, delivered
$215K
Annual savings identified
5 weeks
Kickoff to opportunity review
The situation
The client's CEO, CFO, and CTO needed a shared, independent answer to a fundamental question: was IT investment built to keep the lights on, or to help the business grow? Resourcive's IT Spend Impact Assessment, a $25K fixed-fee engagement backed by a 3X ROI guarantee, was built to answer that directly, with independent data instead of internal opinion, while surfacing real, fundable savings across the technology stack.
Why this was hard without help
The business had recently stabilized a major system implementation and hadn't yet agreed on what came next. A long-standing, single-vendor infrastructure relationship had never been tested competitively. And nobody had an independently validated view of whether the IT organization itself, its structure, staffing, and licensing, was built for where the business was actually headed, as opposed to where it had been.
What Resourcive brought
The assessment ran as a single five-week engagement across three Resourcive practices at once: Executive Advisory reviewed IT strategy and organization design, the value engineering team reviewed infrastructure and vendor spend, and the cybersecurity practice reviewed the managed security stack, all three answering one question against the same independent data set.
The executive question: is IT investment aligned with the business?
Resourcive benchmarked the client's IT spend against industry peers, confirmed it was appropriately sized, and helped leadership prioritize the highest-value opportunities ahead, from manufacturing and quality systems to early AI use cases in back-office processes, connecting them to a double-digit organic growth agenda.
The assessment also found a long-standing, single-vendor infrastructure relationship that had never been tested competitively, a $20K to $50K opportunity simply by injecting real competition, and reviewed how the IT organization was staffed and licensed relative to the business it supported, identifying a $30K to $50K licensing opportunity during the assessment itself.
This is the layer a benchmark alone can't provide: not just whether spend is in the right range, but whether the organization behind that spend is built for where the business is going next.
From the assessment findings
Results
Documented outcomes
- 8X the guaranteed return, delivered against a 3X ROI guarantee on a $25K fixed fee.
- $215K in annual savings identified across infrastructure, licensing, and security.
- $465K+ in realized savings beyond the identified opportunity, between the managed security replacement and the broader organizational decision the assessment informed.
- A complete opportunity review delivered in five weeks from kickoff.
Related offer
This engagement is an example of the IT Spend Impact Assessment: a $25K fixed-fee, five-week engagement backed by a 3X ROI guarantee.Learn more about the Impact Assessment →
Savings figures reflect annualized opportunity identified during the assessment. Realized savings vary by workstream and client implementation timeline. Client name withheld by design, consistent with Resourcive's standard practice of anonymizing buyer-facing case studies.
