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Advisory sprint
A time-boxed engagement to answer a defined question, a strategy, a target architecture, a second opinion on a critical decision.
What we do
Organised around the outcomes you’re buying.
Four technology transformation outcomes, supported by the disciplines beneath them. Engaged individually or end-to-end, and owned throughout by the person doing the work. Not ready for a full programme? Start with Accelerate.
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Accelerate
A fixed-scope health check that turns a problem into a costed, prioritised plan, in weeks, not months. We review a capability, platform or programme, give you a clear read on where you stand, and set out the next steps. No long commitment, and a sound basis for whatever follows.
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What you get
- A current-state assessment of the area in focus
- Prioritised findings, risks and opportunities
- A costed, sequenced set of next steps
- A board-ready readout
Outcome 01
Set the direction
Decide what to do, and get it funded.
4-8 weeks
IT Strategy & Shaping
A clear, costed technology direction aligned to commercial strategy, and a roadmap you can fund and deliver.
- Technology vision & guiding principles
- Costed, sequenced roadmap
- Options & investment direction
Business Case Development
An idea turned into a funded mandate, options, costs, benefits and risk, in the language your board and finance function use.
- Options appraisal & recommendation
- Cost, benefits & ROI modelling
- Board- & Treasury-ready cases (Five Case where required)
AI Strategy & Readiness
A grounded view of where AI earns its place, what it takes to adopt it safely, and the architecture to support it. No hype, just a defensible plan.
- Use-case prioritisation & value case
- Data, platform & readiness assessment
- Architecture for AI and agents, with guardrails
Outcome 02
Design it so it works
Turn the decision into a design your teams can build.
8-16 weeks
Enterprise Architecture
One clear picture of how your business, data and systems fit together, and where to invest, what to retire and why.
- Business-capability view, not just diagrams
- Target architecture & transition path
- Maturity assessment
Programme Blueprinting
The up-front design of a complex programme, structure, sequence and interfaces that make it deliverable before build begins.
- End-to-end solution coherence
- Dependencies & interfaces
- Non-functional requirements & risk
Solution Design
Detailed, build-ready designs that balance cost, performance, security and risk, and bridge cleanly into engineering.
- High- & low-level design
- Integration, data & security
- Cloud & platform design with cost modelling
Outcome 03
Deliver with confidence
Keep delivery honest, and rescue it when it slips.
Retained
Technical Design Authority
Independent governance that upholds standards, controls technical debt and assures key decisions across the lifecycle of your change.
- Standards stewardship & design sign-off
- Technical-debt & risk visibility for sponsors
- Independent, vendor-neutral escalation
Delivery Assurance & Recovery
An independent read on whether a programme will deliver, and a plan to get it back on track when it won’t.
- Delivery & programme health review
- Red-to-green recovery planning
- Sponsor-level reporting & escalation
Outcome 04
Platforms: CRM & ERP
Land the platform, whether Salesforce or SAP S/4HANA, and make it stick.
CRM · design to adoption
Salesforce & CRM
Design and delivery of Salesforce and CRM platforms, from target design through configuration to adoption. Built around your business, not the licence.
- CRM target design & roadmap
- Salesforce solution design & configuration
- Data migration, integration & adoption
SAP S/4HANA & ERP
Transformation architecture for global ERP, from direction and business case through platform selection to delivery, to simplify, standardise and automate processes end to end. Currently architecting a 32-country S/4HANA rollout.
- ERP target architecture & transition roadmap
- Platform selection & business case
- Process standardisation across markets
How to engage us
Three ways to work together.
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Embedded & delivery
Working alongside your teams through design and delivery, hands-on, including platform implementation where you need it.
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Retained design authority
An ongoing, independent authority across your change portfolio, keeping standards high and risk visible to your sponsors.
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Tell us the result you’re after. We’ll tell you, plainly, how we can help, or where to start.