Our Planning stage is where we can help you focus on how you deliver your IT strategy. We'll ensure your customers engage with you and importantly, how your IT function will provide the services today's customers have come to expect. Drawing on years of experience and research, we will help you bring your strategy to life, shaping and refining a roadmap for delivery. We'll help you define the best operating model, structure, methods and processes to successfully deliver on time and cost effectively. We'll focus on portfolio and program level planning, avoiding functionally siloed projects, thereby painting a clear picture of the future state and the initiatives and capability required to do get there.
"The Art of the Possible"
We can work with you to create a plan and help to implement an uplift to your overall capability in order to deliver your IT Strategy and Enterprise Architecture roadmap, covering operating model, structure, methods, processes and skills required to ensure success. We can complement your capability with on or offshore resources to fill short term needs or long term initiatives and undertake an end to end assessment of all IT processes to ensure cohesion with your operating model, structure and methods.
We can review and refine your IT related processes, with a particular focus on Architecture and solution development and delivery, including TOGAF, Agile and ITIL. We can implement new or refine existing processes, always keeping your customers and business stakeholders in mind when we do!
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Your guiding star
We exclusively use the TOGAF Architecture Development Method (ADM) to develop an architecture vision and principles that will help define Business, Application, Technology and Data future state models and roadmaps. This will be the basis of developing a portfolio of initiatives that will deliver sustainable results after delivery.
An Enterprise Architecture vision, principles and roadmaps are best if they are dynamic and we recommend a review annually, usually in line with the budget cycle.
Understand your investment
Using various techniques and methods, aligned to the Roadmaps, we can help scope and size the overall program of work, which helps with managing business priorities and expectation as well as investment and budgetary management. You'll also get more for your investment dollar and know that you're spending it on progressing your strategic goals, rather than maintentance.
Control without restraint
It's important to maintain oversight and control without stifling innovation and productivity. Finding that balance of Governance is very difficult especially with ever tightening regulatory and compliance pressures. Setting up the correct Governance structure is one of the most important things that can be overlooked at a senior management level.
The delivery teams must conform to whatever structure you implement, so getting this right will make the difference not only to your productvity and nimbleness but also your team morale and engagement level.
We can help with achieving that the correct balance, implementing or shaping governance forums, management controls, operating model alignment, risk, security, audit and compliance frameworks.