Andrew Hewat

Melbourne Area, Australia Australia

Owner

Human Resources / Recruitment

LODESTAR was established to do better outsourcing deals with a strong focus on value and the relationship between the parties, rather than just hammering away to the lowest cost. While we don't necessarily like the term "governance", structuring the way the parties work together has been an essential ingredient to the overall success of the deals - both IT and business process outsourcing. In looking at better ways to structure pricing discussions, we searched for IT costing tools and have become the re-sellers for SEER suite of tools in Australia and New Zealand. While great for all aspects of estimating IT project costs using knowledge bases for comparison, they provide a mechanism fo...