Make-or-buy economics: Baseline and evidence diagnostic

Executive summary

A method for comparing what an activity really costs to keep with what it would really cost to buy, before anyone decides.

What is inside

What the baseline diagnostic covers

The asset walks a diagnostic lead through scoping, avoidable cost, landed cost, quality, dependencies, capital needs, claim grading, and sign-off. It ends with a diagnostic questionnaire and an evidence inventory.

Choosing the activities in scope
Absorbed against avoidable cost
Landed cost from supplier quotes
Quality, delivery, and dependencies

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How teams use it

Teams use it when procurement brings a supplier quote, when equipment is due for replacement, or when leadership questions what should stay in house. Finance, operations, procurement, and engineering run it over four weeks; the COO signs the baseline.

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Stratenity Advisory Team. (2026). Make-or-buy economics: Baseline and evidence diagnostic. Stratenity Library. https://www.stratenity.com/resources/library/diagnostic-templates/make-or-buy-economics-baseline-and-evidence-diagnostic

Stratenity Advisory Team. "Make-or-buy economics: Baseline and evidence diagnostic." Stratenity Library, 2026, www.stratenity.com/resources/library/diagnostic-templates/make-or-buy-economics-baseline-and-evidence-diagnostic.

Stratenity Advisory Team. "Make-or-buy economics: Baseline and evidence diagnostic." Stratenity Library, 2026. https://www.stratenity.com/resources/library/diagnostic-templates/make-or-buy-economics-baseline-and-evidence-diagnostic.

Stratenity Advisory Team (2026) Make-or-buy economics: Baseline and evidence diagnostic. Stratenity Library. Available at: https://www.stratenity.com/resources/library/diagnostic-templates/make-or-buy-economics-baseline-and-evidence-diagnostic (Accessed: the date of access).

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Make-or-buy economics: Baseline and evidence diagnostic

What the baseline diagnostic covers

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