IT Strategy & Advisory
Technology debt is a balance-sheet liability. We partner with CIOs and CTOs to rationalise sprawling estates, modernise the architecture that matters, and build a technology strategy the board will actually fund.
The thesis
Architecture is a business decision, not a technical one.
The average Fortune 500 estate carries 900+ applications. Forty percent deliver marginal value. Sixty percent of that spend never reaches the P&L conversation — until it blocks a strategic move.
We treat the technology estate as a capital portfolio. Every application, platform, and vendor relationship is scored against business value, technical health, and strategic alignment — and re-sequenced into an investment plan your CFO will sign.
Before & after
What a 9-month rationalisation looks like on the P&L.
A composite from three recent CIO engagements — banking, healthcare, industrial. Scope, numbers, and sequencing blurred, the shape of the change is real.
Six pillars
The advisory scope. Compressed to the work that moves the needle.
Every application scored on three axes.
Business value, technical health, and strategic alignment — benchmarked against sector medians. The output is a four-quadrant disposition map: invest, modernise, consolidate, retire.
- Financial cost model incl. hidden cost-to-serve
- Technical health scoring (incidents, debt, talent)
- Strategic alignment mapped to capability heatmap
Engagement stages
Six stages. Twelve to eighteen weeks. One decision log.
Mandate alignment
Two-week exec framing — scope, guardrails, success measures agreed with CIO, CFO, and programme sponsor.
Landscape audit
Portfolio, financials, architecture, vendors, and operating model assessed with our proprietary benchmarking data.
Target-state design
Reference architecture, operating model, and investment principles — defended in an exec design review.
Investment plan
Three-horizon roadmap with capex / opex split, dependency mapping, and board-ready narrative.
Governance wiring
Architecture review board, TDO, and FinOps cadence stood up so the strategy survives the first quarter.
Value realisation
Post-board checkpoints at 90, 180, 360 days — we stay accountable to the outcomes, not the deck.
Outcomes we stand behind
The numbers we target, stated up front.
Spend less on technology. Get more from it.
Tell us the shape of your technology estate. We'll come back within a week with a three-horizon investment hypothesis — and the audit plan that proves it.