Managed Services
Harness your organization’s full potential
Discover how TSIA can help guide the profitable growth of managed and XaaS revenue across your entire customer life cycle.
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How can your TSIA Managed Services subscription help you today?
10%
Less than 10% of managed services organizations are optimized for success.
Is yours one of them?
800+
There are over 800 organizational capabilities to be mastered for profitable growth in managed services.
Where do you stand?
15%
The top 15% of managed services providers have a 99% recurring revenue retention rate.
Want to learn how they do it?
28%
The top performers in managed services have a median operating income of 28%.
Want to learn how they do it?
Organizational strategy and structure
Formalize the critical roles and responsibilities required to operate and govern the managed services and XaaS business, with a focus on crucial P&L models and investment plans.
Offer portfolio and value engineering
Understand the organizational capabilities required for successful managed services offers. Learn how to evolve from product focused to value-centric, outcome-based offers.
Successfully selling value and business outcomes
Understand the most critical skills required to sell service-led, outcome-oriented offers successfully.
Scalable, data-driven digital delivery operations
Create a best practice delivery organization for managed services operations and learn about organization structure, standards, processes, tools, and technologies.
Customer success for managed services
Understand the roles and responsibilities of customer success functions in managed services, and identify practices to improve core metrics such as retention, expansion, and CSAT.
Critical insights to transform your managed services organization
Navigating tough economic times
Where to cut back
Leverage signal liquidity
- Analyze delivery operations data to identify and digitize complex or repetitive service delivery activities.
Reduce on-premises activities
- Evaluate high-cost on-site functions to be executed through remote operations.
Rebalance resource distribution
- Leverage insights to identify opportunities to properly balance resource distribution between high-cost and low-cost functions.
Where to find revenue
Evaluate offer portfolio for completeness
- Identify gaps in offer continuum and introduce new offers that provide a complete continuum of services.
Monetize customer success
- Monetize premium customer success for managed clients—especially large, complex, or multi-national companies.
Accelerate XaaS offers
- Accelerate introduction of fully managed cloud and technology XaaS offers.
Staying ahead of the AI revolution
Task automation
Efficiently automate routine tasks, reducing manual intervention and allowing focus on more complex activities.
Predictive resource planning
Optimize resource planning by analyzing data, predicting demand peaks, and adjusting staffing, reducing overall costs.
Compliance monitoring
Automate compliance monitoring with AI for continuous, industry-specific tracking, minimizing risks and costs.
Solutions designed with you in mind
Check out some of the biggest challenges we’re privileged to help our Managed Services subscribers solve
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Proprietary data.
Real results.
From inquiry and expert guidance to data services, workshops, virtual advisory sessions, and interactive strategy reviews, we help you more efficiently align people, processes, and technology to your financial results.
Inquiry and expert guidance
Make informed decisions, identify gaps, and mitigate risk with the knowledge of our Research Experts.
Interactive strategy reviews
We’ll review and validate your strategies against proven data to help make sure your organization is on the right track.
Benchmarking
Track your organization against industry standards using a wealth of critical key performance indicators.
Virtual advisory sessions
Let our team customize a hyper-targeted plan for your organization, designed to tackle the challenges you’re facing right now.
Data services
Targeted quick polls and surveys showcase the latest industry trends so you can always see how your business compares.
The TSIA advantage
Efficiently tie people, process, and technology to your financial results with industry-validated best practices and guidance.
Understand what “good” looks like
Track the metrics that matter
Stay current on up-to-the-minute industry trends
See where the industry is headed
Tackle unique business challenges
Meet your research team
With over a century of collective experience, our Research Experts are here to make sure your business gets the most out of your Managed Services subscription.
Thomas Lah
Executive Director and Executive Vice President
Luke Ronkowski
Sr. Director of Managed Services Research
George Humphrey
Distinguished Vice President and Managing Director
Supported by expert analytics and insights teams
Our Data and Research Analysts and industry insights teams are here to make sure your researchers have everything they need to help your business thrive.
Data Analysts
Skilled in automation, visualization, and data engineering, our Data Analysts scale and maintain TSIA’s data engines.
Research Analysts
Using rigorous statistical analysis, our Research Analysts identify and define the critical insights that fuel our research.
Data Journalists
Through data-driven storytelling and targeted interviews with member companies, our Data Journalists interpret and present our research analysts' findings.
“TSIA's exhaustive industry knowledge base [...] provided us with most of the strategic and operational performance metrics required for preparing both our defensive and offensive business case.”
Dilip Chathanath
Chief Digital and Global Business Services Officer
“The TSIA benchmarking process supported our goals in prioritizing investments for improvement to become more effective and competitive.”
Laurie Harvey
Senior Director Product Management
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