Trusted Advisor

We make an experienced CIO/COO available as a trusted advisor to CIOs, CEOs or board members, enabling you to turn IT, Data & AI into measurable business results faster and at lower cost.

Assignments typically start with an IT, Data & AI Maturity Assessment or Strategy & Roadmap exercise. After this, support can be called off on an ad hoc basis for maximum flexibility. Support can also be booked upfront for a certain period, resulting in cost savings and confirmed availability. Within reserved capacity, priorities and planning can be adjusted flexibly as business needs evolve.

Typical areas of support include:

• ✓ Sounding Board: Get independent advice, a fresh perspective and access to best practices, tailored to your individual needs, tapping into 30+ years of specialized executive experience at companies such as AB InBev, Aviapartner and Cegeka
• ✓ Data & AI: We benchmark your Data & AI capabilities against best practices and support you in defining and delivering a concrete Data & AI strategy and roadmap
• ✓ IT Organization & Processes: We benchmark your IT capabilities against best practices and support you in optimizing your IT organization and processes, improve business-IT collaboration and manage change. Our proven tools and checklists are based on a pragmatic application of ITIL, Agile and Composability concepts
• ✓ IT Budgeting & Cost Optimization: We identify cost optimization opportunities across infrastructure, applications, vendors, organization and processes, and strengthen IT budgeting, initiative prioritization and cost-benefit analysis
• ✓ Board & Management Meetings: We support you in defending IT investments and preparing effective and efficient executive meetings, leveraging our experience and proven templates
• ✓ IT Vendor Management: Having experience from multiple perspectives (CIO/COO/IT Customer, IT Supplier, Consultant), we support you in IT vendor selection, contracting and follow-up
• ✓ M&A: Having extensive experience in the IT aspects of M&A, we support you in due diligence, successful integration and IT carve-outs
• ✓ Application Modernization: We identify opportunities to create business value and reduce cost and risk by modernizing your application landscape, leveraging Data & AI, sovereign, hybrid and public cloud, containers, DevSecOps, low-code and integration platforms where appropriate

IT, Data & AI Strategy & Roadmap

We deliver a concrete strategy and actionable roadmap to turn IT, Data & AI into measurable business results. Deliverables include:

• ✓ Strategy on a Page: Translating your business strategy and objectives into concrete IT, Data & AI initiatives and KPIs, summarized in a pragmatic one-page format optimized for C-level communication and alignment
• ✓ IT, Data & AI Maturity Assessment: Leveraging our proven templates and checklists to benchmark your IT, Data & AI capabilities against best practices and provide actionable improvement recommendations
• ✓ Prioritization: High-level assessment of potential roadmap initiatives based on cost, benefit and risk, in a pragmatic executive summary format optimized for C-level decision-making
• ✓ Roadmap: A concrete multi-year actionable roadmap, with clear C-level ownership and a clear link to business strategy and objectives, covering not only IT, Data & AI but also People, Organization & Processes

IT, Data & AI Maturity Assessment

We leverage our proven templates and checklists to benchmark your IT, Data & AI capabilities against best practices and provide actionable improvement recommendations, including:

• ✓ Applications: Assessing whether your key applications support the realization of your business strategy and objectives, evaluating functional fit, technology fit, vendor fit and cost versus value
• ✓ IT, Data & AI Platforms: Assessing platform capabilities regarding internal and external integrations, application development and DevSecOps, low-code, digital experience, data & AI
• ✓ IT Infrastructure & Cybersecurity: Assessing capabilities regarding IT infrastructure & cloud, digital workplace, security & compliance, connectivity & 5G, observability