Making the case
Today all businesses, large and small rely upon technology. Increasingly consumers expect interactions with companies to be a simple, hassle free, delivered through a smart phone with minimal interaction. How well you implement and manage technology directly impacts your customer experience as much as your business performance.
To maximise the value from your technology you need to be proactive, have a plan, and make conscious decisions. In a nutshell, you must be Strategy Led.
Many businesses often have limited resources focused on systems architecture and strategic planning, leading to disjointed technology solutions which have ‘evolved’ organically and reactively rather than by design, and with little in the way of documentation. Technology teams often struggle to stay aligned with business needs, feeling overwhelmed and disconnected.
Common architecture approaches and frameworks tend be complex, academic and bureaucratic requiring significant resources, time and investment to see any real value. Our approach aims to take only the essential techniques from common frameworks that large organisations commonly use and adapt them into a leaner more accessible methodology. Our approach enables existing staff to focus and deliverer tangible results without the need for armies of consultants or expensive staff.
What we do
Making sound decisions and choices about technology is critical to the success of your business. Developing successful technology and applying enterprise architecture techniques doesn’t need to be expensive, complicated, overbearing or the preserve of large organisations.
It is not about jumping on the latest tech bandwagons, adopting the latest buzzwords or setting unrealistic goals. At Strategy Led we follow a simple three step approach to helping you develop good technology :
- Assess – understand what you have today, where the pain points exist and present ideas for a way forward.
- Plan – identify where you need to focus to drive the most value from your technology and define principles to help you stay on track.
- Change – execute your plans with control and rigour making conscious technology choices and implementing in line with your principles.
In each of these phases we have proven ways of working and artefacts that get results. Technology never stays still and demands on businesses constantly evolve, organisations that get the best results when they follow our 3 step approach on a regular basis e.g. quarterly, every six months.
We offer several engagement approaches, whether it be training and enablement of in-house teams, mentoring or consulting.
What Others Say
The comments below are just a sample of the many people we’ve helped with our Lean Architecture Framework approach.
“Prior to progressing a large change programme, it was important for MHFA England to understand the potential impact of changes to its IT architecture. Strategy-Led were engaged to enhance the level of understand of the ‘as is’ architecture. Their report and recommendations were insightful and massively helpful in terms of helping plan the next steps towards the desired ‘to be’ vision. The help Steve and the team provided is such that we’ve re-engaged and sought help with the next steps of the programme.”
Want To Learn More?
Our learn architecture framework is a simple and straightforward approach to understanding, improving and driving value from your technology. Our free whitepaper outlines our approach in more detail, with real world examples.
