Frankly, I never expected to save as much as you said we would. .. Thanks again for your help. I'd be glad to share our positive experience with any of your clients that may have any questions.

Patrick L. Delaney, Controller

Landry's Commercial Floor Coverings

Key Concepts

• Short-term gains with lasting impact.
• Result turnaround frequently within 30-60 days.
• Potential for lower recurring costs, refunds, reduced billing complexity.
• We don't just look at bills to try to save our clients money.
  • We also evaluate contracts to determine the difference between what a client is obligated to do and pay and what they are currently doing and paying.  We also highlight when clients are unnecessarily exceeding minimum obligations.
  • Similarly, where appropriate or necessary, we will attempt to find ways to void or modify or offset existing agreements, especially for usage services, either by freeing up or redirecting existing usage or by identifying currently contractually unencumbered usage and either renegotiating it for less or else routing it via alternative means.

Notes:
(1) Although every item on this list is strictly limited to reducing telecommunications costs, a key aspect of the Teleconvergence approach is the use of telecommunications and other technologies as a strategic weapon to "cost-effectively" achieve other business objectives in marketing, finance, security, and operations. See the Strategic Telecommunications Planning (STP) and Strategic Telecommunications Marketing (STM) sections for more details.

(2) Cost Reduction may be a means to a different end. For example, consistent with client priorities, the objective may not be reduced costs per se. Instead, the plan may be to use savings or refunds to partially or wholly offset costs for increased capacity, robustness, or reliability. The savings may add a new level of redundancy or backup or may even allow an entire disaster planning contingency plan to be put into place. Similarly, while savings can be reinvested in Procedural Strip Mining projects, part of STP, such projects can create significant savings by themselves.