Strategic Advisory Services

  • Strategic advisory delivered as flexible engagements, tailored to your organisation’s needs and priorities.
  • Engagements can be delivered on a fractional, advisory, or defined-scope basis depending on your requirements.

Strategic Advisory

For organisations seeking flexible access to senior strategic advisory, insight, and guidance without committing to a defined engagement:

  • Direction-setting and strategic sense-checking
  • Support for leaders responsible for IT and change
  • No fixed agenda - priorities shaped by your needs
  • Can be used independently or alongside other services
  • Available in full or half-day increments with flexible scheduling

Business and IT Strategy Review

Does your IT strategy clearly support your current business priorities and future direction?  If not, we can help you:

  • Clarify business priorities, outcomes, and strategic drivers
  • Assess how well the IT estate supports business capabilities
  • Identify gaps, risks, and misalignment between business and IT
  • Define clear, business-aligned IT priorities
  • Articulate the IT strategy in concise, business-focused language

Strategic Value Roadmap

Whether you are establishing or strengthening your Enterprise Architecture capability, a Strategic Value Roadmap helps focus effort where it delivers the greatest business value. Through a structured approach, we:

  • Identify the key questions leadership and stakeholders need answered
  • Define the minimum information required and highlight gaps and dependencies
  • Prioritise activities based on business value rather than architectural completeness
  • Produce a clear, dependency-aware roadmap that enables early insight and measurable outcomes

Strengthen Stakeholder Engagement

Are you finding it difficult to engage business stakeholders, secure time with leadership, or communicate IT priorities effectively? If so, we can assist with:

  • Understanding business priorities and how they relate to IT strategy
  • Identifying key opportunities across business areas
  • Developing clear, business-focused engagement narratives
  • Creating stakeholder-focused engagement roadmaps

Enterprise Architecture Maturity

Is your Enterprise Architecture function struggling to deliver value, but it’s not clear where to start? We can conduct a maturity assessment across key aspects of your EA capability to ensure:

  • Clear understanding of strengths and weaknesses
  • Identified improvement areas with corresponding action plans
  • Realistic expectations for improvement within achievable timescales

Enterprise Architecture Governance

If your Enterprise Architecture governance is informal or not yet established, we can help you:

  • Define governance forums and decision structures
  • Clarify relationships and escalation paths
  • Establish practical approaches to governing change
  • Manage and report Technical Debt
  • Develop recommended reporting templates and practices

EA Tool Value Recovery

Many organisations invest in EA tools expecting improved visibility and decision-making, yet struggle to realise meaningful value.  This service helps diagnose why and reposition your EA capability to deliver measurable outcomes using the EA tool you already have, resulting in:

  • Increased stakeholder adoption
  • Trusted, decision-ready insights
  • Clear alignment to business priorities
  • Tangible return on existing investment

Business Capability Model Development

Are you starting from scratch with no business capability model, or do you have an incomplete or outdated version that isn’t being used? If so, we can guide you with:

  • Engaging business stakeholders to gain their support
  • Approaches to data capture and capability modelling
  • Interpreting findings and presenting insights to stakeholders
  • Developing stakeholder-focused capability roadmaps

EA Recruitment Support

Recruiting Enterprise Architects can be challenging. Strong CVs don’t always reveal whether candidates have the business acumen, stakeholder influence, and technical awareness needed for the role.  We can support confident hiring decisions by:

  • Validating role expectations and capabilities
  • Participating in interviews as an advisor
  • Assessing candidates across core EA competencies
  • Validating experience through practical discussions
  • Providing clear, objective hiring feedback

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