IT strategy and roadmap design, technology portfolio rationalization and modernization, and a sustained independent advisory relationship. Three offerings for the leaders who set the technology agenda and own the decisions that carry it.
Each offering is a discrete engagement with defined deliverables that can be tailored to fit the client's needs, scoped individually, sequenced together, or delivered through any of AXD's two engagement structures.
A strong IT strategy is one that drives technology and services toward what the business needs to advance capabilities and meet its objectives. AXD works with IT organizations to build the strategy that sets the direction and the roadmap that delivers it. The strategy aligns that direction to the capabilities the business is working to build, and the roadmap turns it into a sequenced plan of initiatives the organization is ready to absorb. Where the strategy reshapes the IT operating model, AXD ATOM provides the design.
A common reality impacting enterprise IT organizations is the accumulation of technology over time. A new project, a system renewal, or a recent acquisition are just some of the reasons for this growth. AXD provides a solution to this problem using a methodical process that evaluates each application, system, and platform against the business capabilities each asset supports. Every asset is assessed for the value it returns, the cost it carries, and the risk it holds, then assigned a clear decision: retire, consolidate, sustain, build, or acquire. Technology portfolio decisions are based on what is needed to advance business capabilities, and sequenced into a modernization path that fits what the organization can absorb.
The decisions a technology leader carries are hard to test from inside the organization, where reporting lines, vendor relationships, and internal positions all hold a stake in the answer. AXD provides a sustained advisory relationship that works through those decisions from outside that dynamic, on a standing cadence across strategy, operating model, sourcing, and platform direction. The same relationship reviews programs already under way, assessing health, sequencing, and risk against the outcome the program was funded to produce, and reporting where it stands to the leader who owns it.
Engagements begin with a direct conversation about what you are navigating and where AXD can help.