Digital Roadmap and System Selection Support

Major technology investments are high risk, high impact endeavours involving significant operational change. Many of the challenges we see clients face are the result of early decisions that, once made, are difficult to reverse. Often, clients spend too much time evaluating software and not enough considering how they want to run their business. These challenges can quickly manifest into significant issues including scope creep, delays, spiralling costs and, ultimately, project failure. Staying competitive requires careful planning of technology change and diligent selection of digital solutions.

When to act

You plan to invest significantly in technology change and related business transformation
You want to digitally transform your organisation, ensuring you do not fall behind your competitors, and are able to meet ever increasingly demanding customer expectations
You are not sure what technology solution(s) your business needs
You have a project or digital transformation in-flight and need to be sure you are on track to reap the benefits of your investment and hard work
You need the support of 3rd parties to achieve your transformation goals and need assistence determining the right partner(s) for your organisation
You are not sure you have considered all relevant business requirements or impacts of technological change

What good looks like

Your plans for technology change are aligned with your overarching business strategy and objectives
You are able to track the progress of your technology and business change projects against their intended benefits
Key risk areas and solution gaps are identified early in the project to reduce costly solution redesign
Your system architecture including security design and controls is aligned to your project and objectives

Roadmap for digital change

Provide advice and assurance over the strategic roadmap for technology-enabled change
Confirm that your plans for change are aligned to wider business strategy, organisational needs and external and technological drivers of change

Business case support

Confirming your business case for digital change is consistent with your technology strategy, is robust, takes account of costs, benefits, assumptions, risks and resource implications, and is rigorous in its analysis of alternative change options.

Technology and partner selection

Help you to:

Specify requirements for technology solutions and implementation partners
Engage the market
Issue requests-for-proposals
Define evaluation criteria, evaluate responses and select preferred suppliers
Confirm the contract with the chosen supplier is fit for purpose

Project mobilisation

Ensuring your project organisation structure clearly outlines the project team structure, reporting relationships and resource gaps
Verify that your proposed risk management process is consistent with your overall approach to risk management
Ensure your budget assumptions are reasonable, and in line with actual costs of similar projects
Assess the design and operating effectiveness of change controls and wider project governance

Solution development, delivery and go-live support

Ensuring that the risks to technical delivery, business readiness and data migration are understood throughout the delivery phase and through the go-live period.

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