Focus on your Core tasks, whilst we manage your context operations.
What is Core versus Context?
In simple terms:
We provide you with the ability to focus on your Core business functions, activities that provide the foundation for your business, so that you are not distracted by the ‘Contextual’ or external activities which support your Core. We manage these context operations for you so you can concentrate on what you do best.
In detailed terms:
Core versus Context deals with the classification and management of ‘Core’ tasks, tasks that deliver sustainable competitive advantage, and ‘Context’ tasks, all other tasks that support your business.
Supporting and growing IT Infrastructure and Business applications, although very key to businesses today, are Context tasks and can deflect companies from concentrating on their ‘Core’ tasks. As an IT Engineering company, these tasks are ‘Core’ for us at aap3.
So, by looking to move (or outsource) your Context tasks, IT Services in this example, to aap3, we will deliver a focused, high quality ‘Core’ service. So you concentrate on what you’re best at, your Core tasks, and we do what we’re best at, delivering your Context tasks, which are our ‘Core’ tasks.
Core: Any process that contributes directly to competitive advantage.
Context: All other processes required to fulfil commitments made to one or more stakeholders in the enterprise.
aap3 will work with your business and technical strategists to develop an overall IT and Business Applications strategy. A fundamental part of that strategy will be to look at the ‘Core’ and ‘Context’ tasks and processes of your business. Taking your business goals and strategy as the driver, we will map the Core and Context tasks on top. This will show how much emphasis you are placing on your Core tasks and which resources are supporting and driving them.
The overall aim is to maximise the value of Core tasks, while at the same time streamlining, standardising and optimising Context tasks. The intent being to ‘ready’ your Context tasks to be outsourced to a suitable partner. aap3 is your outsource partner because those ‘Context’ tasks become our ‘Core’ tasks, so we apply the same rigors and focus as you do, e.g. maximising the value of our Core tasks.
