If we begin with the end in mind, the following solution spaces represent a dynamic range of high-value applications of my core competencies and experience to addressing opportunities, risks, and problems that we can take on together during our engagement.
Ranging from tactical, to strategic, to transformative, these solution spaces may not be all that we focus on together, but they give us common visions and objectives to work towards when enabling value for the organization.
Architecture Modernization
Architecture Modernization starts with making sense of your current enterprise applications and systems, mapping them to the business capabilities and business processes that they support, and designing the future state of the architecture with a technology strategy in mind that aligns with business goals and objectives. Sounds simple enough, right?
Business Process and Workflow Automation
Business Process and Workflow Automation entails a deep understanding of the structures and flows of an organization, as well as the end-to-end steps required to create customer value. Before any process can be automated, it must first be optimized. Before any process can be optimized, it must first be understood.
Delivery Process Optimization
Delivery Process Optimization gets to the heart of why your technology organization struggles to release system and application changes in a consistent, repeatable and transparent manner, then focuses on designing and implementing effective and scalable service delivery processes that drive quality, predictability, and ongoing improvement.
Enterprise AI Preparedness
Enterprise AI Preparedness in 2024 will unfortunately have more to do with parsing hype cycles and understanding where the opportunities to infuse Artificial Intelligence into the enterpirse actually exist, than implementing long-term solutions that are still waiting to emerge.
Enterprise Solution Design
Enterprise Solution Design is about addressing business challenges with thoughtful technology solutions that take into account the impact on the organization as a whole. Modern enterprises are incredibly complex socio-technical systems, resulting in fragmentation, constraints, and process friction that emerge from systemic inefficiencies and the attempts to resolve them over time.
Merger and Acquisition Integration
Merger and Acquisition Integration involves evaluating and analyzing the tools, platforms, and systems in use by a target entity, and making sense of the processes and flows underlying the operations of the acquired organization.
SaaS Application Rationalization
SaaS Application Rationalization is the process of identifying, evaluating, consolidating, and optimizing the use of cloud-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) tools and systems in use throughout an organization.
Strategic Roadmapping
Strategic Roadmapping can be an invaluable, transformative experience when it’s done right, and done for the right reasons. Roadmapping is a way to align technology with business strategy and objectives through thoughtful planning that takes into account the short-term and long-term goals of the organization.
Technical Debt Reduction
Technical Debt Reduction assumes that you have technical debt to begin with. Do you? How do you know? Before we talk about how to approach technical debt, let's make sure we're aligned on what technical debt is, and what it is not. Simply having issues with redundancy, obsolescence, suboptimal design, performance degradation, neglected maintenance, or unmanaged complexity do not necessarily mean you are experiencing technical debt.
Project Rescues, Reboots and Revivals
Project Rescue could mean many things, but the overarching objective is to get a stalled initiative back on the right path regardless of its history or how much has already been spent on it. Projects can go off the rails at any time for any number of reasons, but if there is business value that can be captured, the only thing that matters is how things move forward from that point.
Residencies and Board Advisory
In Residence and Board Advisory are options for bolting on my knowledge and expertise to your organization as the go-to source for enterprise architecture and technology strategy guidance.
Team Building and Interim Leadership
Team Building and Interim Leadership are options for applying my decades of team leadership to design the technology organization your enterprise needs. Finding competent leadership in the technology space is not easy, and sometimes you just need a temporary solution to buy the time needed to evaluate and implement more permanent options.