Superior Technology Consulting

We can work with your business and technology leadership to formulate your technology strategy. This can take the form of a strategy for the operation of a technology function, or a strategy for leveraging technology for business growth, productivity and efficiency.

We pride ourselves on executing an inclusive approach where we gather a wide range of insights and opinions. We anchor our strategic recommendations against your business's goals and objectives. If your business's goals and objectives need to be refreshed we can faciltate an initial process of working with your executive leadership to formulate your business strategy.

Our technology strategy work can include other artefacts such as current and target state architectures, initiatives' definition and technology roadmaps.

Any technology program whether on track or off-track can benefit from a program review. We use our proprietary framework to assess factors such as risk, delivery likelihood, delivery methodology, budget, benefit realisation and resourcing.

We can also develop top-to-bottom business cases for technology-centric programs of work including benefits capture and modelling, effort and resourcing and developing the executive pitch.

Business architecture covers business operating models (processes, people, structure, products, services, assets), and business strategy and capabilities. Business architecture is the corresponding practice to technology architecture.

Business architecture has an operational dimension that measures performance, progress against strategy, cost-effectiveness, and identifies pain points and challenges.

Business architecture has a strategy dimension that defines the business goals, objectives, and strategy and how to achieve these.

Business architecture is often practised in a siloed way either by a Strategy function, sometimes by the Technology function or the Products and Marketing function.

We espouse a holistic, integrated approach to defining a firm's business architecture so that all of the above functions work together for common good.

Solution architecture defines a system design for a new or enhanced solution. It is often the artefact used to cost a program of technology work and as such needs a commensurate level of detail. Equally, a solution architecture is not a detailed technical specification.

We can develop a written solution architecture for your project or initiative based on business requirements, covering integration, data, application, security, infrastructure and business architecture dimensions.

The IT function is a critical enabler of the business's strategy and its operational execution. Technology is a major cost in any competitive business's budget.

Our IT BU Performance Review service involves reviewing the IT function from outside-in and inside out. We assess the services provided by IT to the business, the level of business satisfaction with them, and their pricing and quality. We can assess IT spend in terms of run vs build spend, resourcing, efficiency and productivity.

Sometimes IT is functioning as well as it can with the funding it has, but perceptions of the function are still negative. Our review can help IT to demonstrate the value it is already delivering and make the case for more funding. Other time, the IT function is not meeting business needs and needs to be restructured to reflect new technology and business priorities.