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Strategic digital consulting

This work is commissioned when the technology bills are growing and there is no clear answer to «what are we getting for this». Our task is to put things in order: what to start on now, what can wait a year and what is better dropped altogether.

One to one and a half months
for the review
Priority order
by impact on money
Amounts
broken into stages
The document
for the conversation with the board

What the work includes

We start from what the company lives on rather than from technology. The technology is chosen afterwards, once it is clear what actually needs to change.

Discuss the scope

What has been built

The current picture: systems, processes, costs, weak points, risks.

Conversations with the business

What stops the departments working. The answers regularly differ from the technical department's version.

Where the money goes

We break down the spending and separate what delivers a return from what is simply written off.

Putting things in order

We plot the initiatives on axes of benefit and difficulty and explain why the order is what it is.

A plan for years ahead

A calendar covering one to three years with stages, amounts and the points where the next decision is taken.

The presentation

We prepare the document and the presentation in a form you can put in front of the owner.

How it goes

Four to six weeks; the timing depends on the size of the company and the number of departments.

01

We dig in

We study not only the technology but how the company earns and what is holding growth back.

02

We gather the data

A technical review plus interviews with the heads of departments.

03

We compare

We overlay the business problems onto the state of the systems and calculate what each change would give.

04

We write the plan

A costed calendar, a presentation to the management and revisions after the discussion.

Most often we find money disappearing into thin air. Licences paid for with no users at all, a system rolled out and abandoned, two services duplicating each other. Tidying up that part often pays for the first stage of changes by itself, with no need to ask for extra budget.

Questions and answers

A technical survey describes the current state of the equipment. Our work answers a different question: where the organisation should move. A survey can be one stage of that work, but on its own it gives neither an order of priority nor a budget.

Definitely the heads of departments and whoever controls the budget. A plan written from conversations with the technical department alone comes out competent and entirely disconnected from what the company actually lives on.

We say it as it is, including when the root of the problem is not in the technology at all but in the processes or in particular people. Such a conclusion is unpleasant to hear, but thanks to it the budget does not go on a rollout that would not have solved the problem anyway.

We will draw up your IT development plan

Tell us what worries you: costs, speed, risks. We will look into it and propose a plan with priorities.