Geoffrey Thorpe's Contact Details

Geoffrey Thorpe's Company Details

Cherub Advisory & Consulting - IT Sourcing for Maximum Value

Avondale Heights, VIC, AU • 20 - 49 Employees
Management Consulting

Cherub is a Sourcing Advisory firm. We specialise in providing practical and actionable insight and consulting across the entire sourcing lifecycle.Our single-minded focus is on understanding the Australian IT Sourcing marketplace and leveraging our unrivalled practical experience and market perspective to provide pragmatic and actionable sourcing advice, solutions and consultancy that help clients answer critical questions such as:• Am I getting value for money from my deal?• Is my strategy optimised to business needs?• How can I get the right vendor, with the right services, backed by the right deal?• How do I realise the goals and objectives of my strategy?The sourcing journey has many stages. Our Lifecycle Solutions Framework (LSF) is pivotal in helping clients understand each stage of the journey and where their sourcing initiative fits overall, providing a clear and informed view of foundational steps that preceded the journey; as well as understanding the steps needed to ensure success.At the heart of our LSF is Advisory - the foundation of everything Cherub does and delivers. Our understanding and appreciation of both the ‘hard' and ‘soft' aspects of Advisory means we are able to extend 'thinking' into 'doing' through the application of our best practice approaches, methods and tools.This is achieved through Consulting Solutions that can complement a client's team; or through a targeted consultancy where Cherub delivers an end-to-end solution, focussing on some or all aspects of the sourcing lifecycle, such as:• Strategy to set direction• Go To Market to select a solution• Price Benchmarking to set a baseline;• Transition• Value Strategy to review, refine and rectify the contract to maintain and improve the relationship &• Vendor Governance to support management of the relationship.We pride ourselves in our flexibility to either "roll our sleeves up"; or to simply provide expert guidance in a more advisory role.