Based on extensive experience with managing professional service providers, we can help you find out whether your provider management strategies and processes are state-of-the-art and identify potential optimization areas. If required, we can help you optimize every single step of the provider management process, both on a portfolio level and on a per-project level. With our advice you'll be able to reduce your provider costs while increasing your company's satisfaction with your provider performance.

impacore will broaden your supplier search beyond well known players and find the best provider for your specific topic. We also verify the performance of short-listed providers by performing Reference Checks on their work. These Reference Checks provide you with evidence of the scope and quality of work done with other clients. This eliminates the risk of selecting the wrong partner. In addition, impacore enables you to compare provider performance with fee levels so that you can choose the best provider at the lowest cost.

There are many ways to implement performance-based fees using Performance Ratings. With our knowledge of the pros and cons of the various models, we'll help you find the approach best suited for your purpose. We will also help you set the right performance targets and rates in your contracts, so that your providers are financially rewarded if they give their best and penalized if they do not.

Our years of experience in the professional services industry have given us exposure to many difficult project situations. Whether you are considering stopping a project or replacing a service provider in the middle of a project, impacore will help you make the right decision quickly so that you can get back to business.

When you need to address an issue that has arisen with regard to your service provider's performance or compensation, impacore can provide an impartial opinion or act as facilitator to help resolve the conflict.