Technology

Architecture

We partner with our clients to optimise their architecture landscape to drive pragmatic technical solutions throughout the transformation delivery lifecycle. We know what architecture best practice looks like, and we’ll share our knowledge and embed it into your organisation.

Enterprise architecture

We’ll work together to define your architecture vision and roadmaps. This will keep your technology initiatives and delivery capability centred around a common technical vision—one that’s linked to your organisational objectives and leads to tangible business value.

Governance and assurance

By partnering with your technology delivery functions, we’ll perform health checks to identify the root cause of problems. We’ll then provide targeted recommendations that will help you streamline your governance processes and embed the best practices for structured, robust and rapid technology change.

Operations architecture

We’ll make sure you have the operational tools in place to provide and run IT services effectively. To do that, we’ll support you to define and validate the infrastructure, platforms and application architecture you need.

Solution architecture

We’ll help you define your end-to-end architecture by developing current, target and transition-state blueprints. These will provide scope and direction when it comes to selecting vendors and executing your design.

Cloud and infrastructure

We’ll help you forge a path through the complexities of cloud transformation by crafting a sustainable cloud strategy that’s aligned to your business. Our cloud and infrastructure advisory team will partner with you to consider people, process and technology.

Cloud strategy

Strategy is the first step on your journey to cloud enablement. We’ll help design the target architecture, operating model and controls that will drive the business outcomes you’re looking for.

Cloud migration

Shaping and driving the migration is an essential part of cloud transformation. We’ll help you establish the strategy and sequence to inform the technology workstreams for a risk-managed, successful outcome.

Cloud optimisation

This emerging discipline involves managing the business demand and cloud commercial constructs. Starting from this approach, we can help optimise the business value you see from your cloud activity.

Digital workplace

Digital workplaces make employees more productive. We’ll set up your technology and collaboration tools so you can benefit from the security, availability and adaptability of the latest ways of working.

Cyber and resilience

We’ll help you acquire the resilience and foresight you need to safely operate in a threat-rich landscape. We’ve worked across industry and government to assess risk, build strategy, implement technology, and—in the worst case—support after incidents. We come to cyber with a rich IT and enterprise skillset, driving secure outcomes while ensuring cyber strategy is executed within the broader business context.

Cyber strategy and change

We’ll collaborate with you to build a cyber strategy that enables your business to achieve its goals in a safe and scalable way. Our team can then design an operating model that unlocks your strategic potential. Our specialists bring knowledge from across different industries to help you:

• identify the optimum sourcing model and expert suppliers that best suit your goals
• ensure your strategy is enabled by effective change capabilities
• embed the process and governance that can help calibrate the strategy when
  demand changes.

Cyber risk and resilience

We’ll work with you to effectively reduce your risk exposure and dramatically improve your cyber resilience posture. We’ll help you identify and quantify the cyber risks you face, target your strategy towards resilient business outcomes, and understand and manage the risks in your supply chain.

Cyber regulation and transformation

We’ll work with you to assess the regulatory change affecting your business and plan and build the programme of change you need for compliance and broader benefits. We can also deliver independent compliance assurance, guide you through independent audits, and review the strategy and approach of in-flight programmes so your leaders can be confident they’ll deliver the right outcomes.

Strategic IT and operating model

We shape technology agendas for our clients, helping CIOs to transform their organisation and deliver a step change in performance.

You’ll benefit from our real-world experience in organisation design, IT architecture, technology transformation delivery, cost optimisation and infrastructure management. We work across multiple industry sectors and offer a genuine, realistic and independent service.

IT Strategy and Operating Model

We develop technical strategies and operating models that shape transformational IT change and bring your business’ vision to life.

CIO Leadership Development

We’ll support your new and future CIO leaders with the development and mentoring they need to thrive at C-level.

M&A, PMI and Separation

From pre-deal due diligence to the CIO’s day-one and longer-term strategic responses, we’ll support you through mergers and acquisitions, post-merger integration, and separation.

IT Optimisation

We’ll provide maturity assessments and in-depth reviews of your CIO organisation to show where you can optimise, looking at areas such as costs, project portfolios, capabilities, and competitor platforms and systems.

Sustainable Technology

We’ll help build sustainability into the fabric of your technology supply chain. We’ll show you how technology can support sustainability throughout the organisation, and help you minimise your overall carbon and environmental impact.

Technology Sourcing

We’ll advise on strategic sourcing, procurement activities, and optimising your IT supply chain for sustainability.

Technology delivery

An increasing number of our clients see the value in choosing an independent technology delivery partner. We’ve worked with lots of different system integrators and technologies, and we combine our technical knowledge and independent eye to assess the best technology and delivery partners for you. This helps our teams accelerate change programmes while working in a considered and measured way that minimises risk.

Tech delivery

We partner with our clients on their largest and most complex technology transformation programs, and manage the full lifecycle, from vision and strategy to mobilisation, technology delivery and benefit realisation. Our experienced technology practitioners add pragmatism and innovative thinking to your delivery teams, helping you achieve the business and technology outcomes you’re looking for.

Testing

We call on the extensive experience of our executive and senior manager group to support your test strategy, test execution and test QA work. This helps us share best practice and transfer knowledge and skills with your teams.

Cutover

The earlier we start planning for go-live, the better we can help you guard against the common pitfalls. We’ve used our robust approach to help clients cutover to their future model and system landscape across complex global transformations, joint ventures and post-merger integrations.

Enterprise platforms

Our clients tell us they’re facing skills gaps in the main enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions they use to run their business. We can support you with roles and skills for packages from the major technology providers including, but not limited to, SAP, Oracle, Microsoft and WorkDay.

Enterprise and engagement platforms

Our enterprise platform team is set up to work as your strategic, independent partner. We’ll advise and support you to choose the right technology platforms to transform your IT estate, across a variety of needs from enterprise resource planning (ERP) to customer relationship management (CRM) and engagement, and more. We’ll also help supplement skills and talent gaps for the platforms you use.

Strategic advisory

We advise on best practice and key trends in the enterprise platform space: what’s hot, what’s not, and what’s next.

Market guidance

We’ll advise on the platform(s) that are best for your use case and budget; including, whether a smaller tactical solution may be a better fit for your technology estate while still delivering the capabilities the business needs. We can help you across all these areas and more:

• enterprise resource planning (ERP)
• customer relationship management (CRM)
• supply chain management (SCM)
• human capital management (HCM)
• integration platforms (cloud and on-premises)
• engagement platforms.

Requirements specification and vendor selection

Our view of the enterprise platform marketplace is backed up by real-world implementation experience. We’ll help you spec your requirements, and shortlist and select the vendors that are right for your business needs.

Core process and business capability analysis

When it’s time to shift your core business processes and capabilities over to enterprise and engagement platforms, we’ll draw on our implementation experience to make sure the transition is smooth and has the right level of user engagement.