Managing telecom expenses is not easy; whats more, the larger the organization is, the more complicated that management gets. In Telecom Expense Management for Large Organizations, authors Luiz Augusto de Carvalho and Claudio Basso, who have each worked for more than a decade in the telecommunications industry, share their wealth of knowledge so you can slash expenses and manage business properly. This practical guide is divided into five sections: managerial issues, managerial processes, bill processing, traffic analysis and specific aspects. Each section builds upon the previous one, helping you contract and negotiate with telecom service providers; design a well-controlled telecom structure; oversee the inventory of assets and services; manage contracts, processes, and challenges; and process invoices and navigate auditing processes. This book discusses several techniques which will help you to organize the telecom cost/expenses management in your organization. Take control of your organizations future and plot a path that can help you enhance the quality of your telecom expenses management .

Learn how you can save your organization 50% on telecom, and increase service levels. Are you responsible for your company's telecom spending? Would you and your company benefit from lower costs and better service? Do you want to keep your vendors or switch? Are you under contract, or looking to re-negotiate? This book is here to help.Discover the principles and the step by step methods for managing spending on wireless, landline, voice, and data services. You will learn how to unlock hidden savings in piles of complex bills and multi-location, multi-vendor budgets. You can use these techniques to handle large and small numbers of bills, locations, and services. Standard spreadsheet applications can be used, no custom or expensive software is needed to provide basic telecom expense management as well as automation and reporting.You'll learn to discover what you don't know you don't know. You'll be able to achieve zero based budgeting.Learn how to:Find savings by eliminating billing errors, removing unused services, consolidating underused services, and negotiating fair market rates or better.Align spending to your contracts, business needs, and the marketplace.Look like a hero saving 20% to 60% in complex multi-vendor, multi-location $100,000 a year, or more, telecom budgets.This book also includes:An explanation of how billing errors aren't the biggest problem.Clear checklists showing you the steps to savings.The 57 different things you must do to fully optimize telecom costs.The 102 different things you need to watch out for in contracts. About the author: Anders D. MikkelsenAnders is the founder of Berlin Pacific, a Telecom Expense Management consulting firm. He has over 20 years of professional experience in IT, Telecom, and Vendor Management, helping companies improve performance through implementing solutions that lower costs and solve business problems. A native of Princeton, New Jersey, and a graduate of Colgate University, he lives in New York City.www.berlinpacific.comBook Includes:A detailed "Step by Step Guide to Managing Telecom Costs" for both wireless and landline telecom.As well as bonus materials:Top 7 Ways to Overpay Your VendorsThe Truth about Managing Telecom CostsTop Myths about Managing Telecom CostsContinual Improvement Best Practices for Telecom Expense ManagementTelecom Expense Management Self AssessmentIT Financial MetricsThoughts on the Future and Cloud ComputingAdvice on Vendor ManagementVolume Commitment Telecom Agreements With a Focus on AT&T's MARC Contracts and YouHosted VoIP Contracts with a Focus on How to Protect YourselfThe SLA - Service Level AgreementWhy Does Anyone Need a Telecom Expense Manager?Optimizing Spending on Services

This straightforward book will provide you with the insight necessary to save your organization revenue through the processes of bill auditing, expense reduction, and savvy contract negotiations. Information technology professionals will find the authors' suggestions useful, and yet uncomplicated to implement. After you have used their suggestions

If you manage large telecommunications infrastructures, you know there are lots of moving parts to keep track ofand that failing to do so can lead to big problems. In Telecom Management for Large Organizations, youll learn about five key areas: the telecom manager, macro issues, telecom consulting, bills and billing processing, and the future. Luiz Augusto de Carvalho, who has more than twenty-five years of experience as a telecommunication engineer and business administrator, explains how telecom managers typically work as well as how to: do work efficiently and allocate resources; make quick assessments about telecom needs; determine when to seek help from external consultants; and resolve and navigate problems in the billing process. The author also explores the relative importance of auditing bills, why billing errors often go unresolved, and how to improve expense management. Reduce costs, enhance customer service, and prevent small problems from becoming big ones with the guidance in this practical telecom management guide.

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