Short, practical notes on IT strategy, programme delivery, architecture and governance — written by senior practitioners, not marketing teams.
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The articles on this page reflect what we have learned across engagements with Australian organisations. They are opinionated on purpose. The job of independent advisory is to have a view and to be willing to defend it. Where we are wrong, we welcome the conversation.
The pieces below cover strategy, delivery, cloud architecture, vendor selection, engagement of advisers, and the operational side of running a technology function. Each is written with the executive reader in mind — boards, CEOs, CFOs, CIOs and heads of risk.
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A field guide for executives and programme sponsors — patterns we see repeatedly in the months before a programme needs intervention.
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How to make an honest cloud decision when your starting point is a tangle of legacy systems and commercial reality.
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How to run a vendor selection that the executive team and the board can defend two years later.
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Five situations where an independent technology advisor adds more value than cost — and three where they do not.
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How to take real cost out of an IT estate without leaving the organisation exposed in twelve months' time.
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The archive is organised around the recurring questions raised in the engagements that fill most of our calendar. They are not academic questions; they are the questions boards, CEOs and CIOs ask when they have a technology decision in front of them and need a considered point of view before the room closes.
Strategy questions sit alongside delivery and architecture, because in practice they cannot be separated. A strategy that ignores the delivery capacity of the organisation is not a strategy. An architecture that ignores the strategic intent is decoration. The pieces here treat them as one body of work, because that is how they arrive in the room.
The articles are also deliberately long. The questions are too involved for short answers, and we have lost patience with advice that fits into a tweet.
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