Workshop · Cost Optimization · Managed IT Infrastructure

TCO is not one number.
Take it apart with us.

Total cost of ownership hides more than it reveals until someone takes it apart. This working session decomposes infrastructure TCO line by line — support contracts, refresh cadence, premium SLAs nobody uses, the carrying cost of OEM lock-in — and shows exactly which lines the 30–50% consolidation savings come out of. Bring your estate’s numbers or work the model with ours. Sessions run under the two principles every WUC engagement runs on — Exceptional Service and Strategic Engagement — and every one is available as a private rerun for your team, with your estate’s numbers on the table.

Workshop
Format
Delivered by the practitioners who run these engagements — not a marketing team with slides
Half-day
Session length
Matched to how deep the material goes — and reruns can go deeper on the parts your team needs
June 2026
Original session
Available on demand as a brief and as a private rerun — the material stays current with the practice
1:1
Private rerun
Your team, your calendar, your estate’s numbers — the partner-in-the-room format
The Agenda

What the session covers.

01 REQUESTthe session brief 02 REVIEWwith your team 03 PRIVATE RUNyour estate’s numbers 04 ENGAGEthe partner-in-the-room
From brief to briefing — how a session becomes a working relationship.
  1. The TCO lines that hide money: support renewals, forced refresh, and SLA over-tiering.
  2. Decomposition exercise — the worksheet that turns one big number into decisions.
  3. Where consolidation savings actually land, with ranges from documented engagements.
  4. Rebuilding the model on your calendar: refresh when evidence says so, not when the OEM does.
What You Leave With

Working material, not slideware.

Workshop · Cost Optimization

Infrastructure TCO Workshop: Decomposition Brief

Every session ships its working material — the frameworks, worksheets, and documented ranges the practitioners actually use — because Strategic Engagement means your team can interrogate the reasoning, not just admire the conclusions. Request the brief and it arrives with the private-rerun offer attached.

WorkshopHalf-dayBrief on requestPrivate rerun 1:1
This session maps to a practice you can put under contract SESSION Workshop · Half-day MODEL YOUR ESTATE savings calculator ENGAGE managed services
Session, model, engage — the same arc every documented outcome followed.

Session materials follow our methodology standards — documented sources, ranges rather than point estimates, client environments anonymized. Model the economics with the infrastructure savings calculator. Operating practices referenced align to the NIST Cybersecurity Framework and guidance from CISA.

Ready for the private version?

Request the brief, or book this session as a private rerun for your team — your calendar, your estate’s numbers, and the three biggest overspend and risk signals in your current contracts surfaced along the way.

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