Services

Review of any technology strategy and its alignment to the business plan.

Strategy creation using frameworks from previously successfully delivered strategies and customising them to fit your specific requirement to maximise ROI.

Assessment of how well existing designs fit with the strategy and delivery plans.

Production or enhancement of new architectures based on best practice and templates from proven past experience.

Ensure that the product design is fully thought through and aligned with the business and technology strategies.

Implementation or enhancement of focused product designs to deliver efficient ROI.

Code quality and design reviews to ensure the software meets both immediate and strategic requirements.

• ​Languages, services, open-source, standards, build vs buy, SaaS, code / peer reviews, design, tooling, defect management, etc.

Introductions to and oversite of trusted partners should development need to be improved and/or accelerated.

Configuration quality and design reviews to ensure the infrastructure meets both immediate and strategic requirements.

• ​Hosting, cloud services, scale, resilience, hardware, comms, inventory, database, printers, emails, office tools, suppliers, partners, power, cooling, environment, telephony etc.

Introductions to and oversite of trusted partners should development need to be improved and/or accelerated.

Validation of existing licencing, contracts, agreements etc to make sure they are fit for purpose and without significant cost exposure.

Partnering with procurement associates to negotiate deals with current or new partners.

Review of current project and delivery management structures and methods.

Definition and implementation of tailored Agile or Waterfall project methods to match the needs of your business and your clients.

Assessment of current practices vs industry standard models.

• ITIL, support, on-call, incident management, tools, capacity planning, monitoring, SLA’s, KPI’s, release management, maintenance schedules, patch management, change processes, backups, RTO/RPO, DR/BCP etc..​

Implementation or enhancement of existing practices to meet the current and future requirements of the business.

Checks against industry standards and practices to ensure sufficient measures are being taken to protect against both external and internal threats.

• Cyber essentials plus, OWASP, SoC, IDS/IPS, DLP, IS27001, MDM etc.

Embedding required standards in to the existing team / process and / or introducing virtual / flexible CISO (Chief Information Security Officer) models.​

Ensuring the current structure has the right roles, people and partners to deliver the strategy and plan.

• ​Aligning structure to strategy, succession planning, collaborative working, separation of duties, technology reporting lines etc.

Developing existing and building new teams using existing networks for people and partners.

Capability assessments to make sure that current people and partners have the right mix of skills, experience and culture to deliver on the current and future requirements of the business.

Training, coaching, advising and recruitment support.

Documentation levels, risk assessment, risk/issue management process, methodologies, DevSecOps, review cycles, approval process, KRI’s, KPI's, archiving, GDPR, compliance etc.

Process for continuous and fit for purpose improvements to drive business growth / efficiency and to avoid the build up of technical debt.

Capability, test coverage, automation, monitoring, alerting, security scanning etc.

Design and development of web sites, apps etc.

Review of practices for responsive design, UI/UX etc.

Automation & robotics.

CRM.

CMS

Self-service.

etc.

Data quality, structure, governance and best practice.

Reporting, MI, BI, AI, ML etc.

Tools.

Data science capabilities.

Current and future technology costs.

Opportunity analysis.

Implementation of best in class budget structures using tried and tested methods.

Cost efficiency improvements.