IT STRATEGY AND ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE
IT strategy and enterprise architecture planning
We assess your application estate, agree investment priorities and turn IT strategy and enterprise architecture into a phased roadmap your teams can deliver.
- A TIME-scored disposition for every application
- A costed, phased target-state roadmap
- The architects who set direction stay through delivery
IT strategy and enterprise architecture services.
Each engagement stands alone and connects to the next, so the assessment leads to a plan, the plan leads to delivery, and the delivered estate stays clean.
Application Portfolio Rationalization
A TIME-scored inventory with a disposition and business case for every system in the estate.
MIGRATECloud Strategy and Migration
A 6 Rs migration plan that translates the target state into a sequenced, costed move to cloud.
EXECUTEStrategic Portfolio and Program Management
The governance and delivery cadence to execute the roadmap at scale, across many teams.
GOVERNIT Governance, Risk and Compliance
Guardrails so the rationalised estate stays rationalised instead of sprawling again.
When the estate needs a clearer direction.
Enterprise architecture fails when it becomes a modelling exercise disconnected from budget.
We anchor it to the questions leadership actually has to answer: what do we keep, what do we change, what do we kill, and what will each cost. The output is a decision, not a deck.
Duplicate systems nobody will retire
Several applications do roughly the same job, but no one owns the decision to consolidate, so all of them keep getting funded.
Platforms no one is certified to support
Business-critical systems run on stacks the current team cannot maintain, and the risk only surfaces when something breaks.
Critical apps one quarter from failing
A handful of systems carry the business and sit on foundations that are quietly aging out from under them.
No agreed view of keep versus kill
Every leader has an opinion on the portfolio, but there is no scored, evidence-backed basis a committee can approve together.
Spend with no line to business value
Applications are quietly costing more than they return, and nothing connects the run-rate to the value each system actually creates.
A diagram is not a decision. The value is in what you keep, change, and kill.
Every application lands in one of four dispositions.
The TIME model forces a decision by scoring each system on business value against technical fitness. Frameworks like TOGAF give us a shared language for the target state; the value is in the choices, sequenced so the highest-risk and highest-cost items move first.
**Typically eight weeks to a costed target-state roadmap.** We confirm the scope and timing after reviewing your application inventory and access to business owners. The roadmap records the recommended disposition, dependencies and investment priorities for the applications assessed.
Typically eight weeks to a costed target-state roadmap. We confirm the scope and timing after reviewing your application inventory and access to business owners. The roadmap records the recommended disposition, dependencies and investment priorities for the applications assessed.
Architecture that stops at the roadmap is where programmes stall.
Our dedicated-team model closes the gap between the target-state deck and the engineers who realise it, so migration, modernisation, and consolidation decisions do not sit in a document waiting for an owner.
Most rationalisation roadmaps produce a queue of systems marked Migrate, and that queue is a modernisation programme in itself. See [Application Modernisation](/application-modernisation) for how we execute the Migrate disposition, and [Cloud Infrastructure](/cloud-infrastructure) for the foundation those systems land on.
The roadmap hands directly to the teams who build it.
Cloud and Platform Engineering
The wider practice this sits within, from strategy through platform, migration, and run.
EXECUTEApplication Modernisation
Move the systems your TIME assessment marks Migrate to cloud-native, without a big-bang rewrite.
FOUNDATIONCloud Infrastructure
The resilient, governed foundation the rationalised estate is built to land on.
What leadership asks before an assessment.
A first-pass TIME view lands inside three weeks. A full, costed target-state roadmap across a large estate runs six to ten weeks, typically eight, deliberately time-boxed to force decisions rather than prolong analysis.
We use TOGAF for a shared target-state language and the TIME model to force a disposition per application. The frameworks give structure; the value is in the sequenced choices, not the diagrams.
The application inventory, however messy. We return a first-pass TIME view of what to keep, change, and kill, then refine it with the business and finance owners who hold the budget.
Send us the inventory, however messy. Get back a plan you can fund.
We will return a first-pass TIME view of what to keep, change, and kill, then refine it with your business and finance owners.