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Strategic Consulting for Business and Technology
Any effective technology architecture begins by thinking big—with a technology strategy and associated aspirational future state operating model.
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Through strategy, roadmap, design, and planning methods, our Advisory Services are uniquely positioned to tackle cross-domain business and technology problems.
- Organizational
- Technology
- Benchmarking
- IT & Business Alignment
- M&A Leadership
- Program Rescue
- Technology Life Cycle
- Large-scale Program Management
- Emerging Technology Adoption
- Change Management
- Baseline Environment Analysis
- Financial Strategy Consulting
- FinOps-as-a-Service for Cloud
- Asset Management Strategies
- Workload Architecture & Placement
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Through facilitated workshops, interviews, and data analysis, both the current-state capability and future-state objectives are evaluated to identify strengths and opportunities for improvement. We develop a high-level technology strategy that captures both business and technology requirements, and then delivers a prioritized list of follow-up actions to achieve it.
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