A Technology Strategy engagement delivers:
Current State Assessment
Comprehensive inventory and assessment of your existing technology platforms, infrastructure, vendor relationships, and technical debt.
Technology Roadmap
A 3-5 year roadmap aligned to your business strategy, showing which technology investments to make, when, and why.
Vendor Strategy
Assessment of your vendor relationships, consolidation opportunities, and decisions about best-of-breed versus integrated platforms.
Infrastructure Optimization
Analysis of your cloud infrastructure, data center costs, and opportunities for optimization and cost reduction.
Technical Debt Assessment
Prioritization of technical debt: which legacy systems need to be modernized, which can be maintained, which should be retired.
Build vs Buy Framework
A framework for making build-versus-buy decisions on future technology initiatives, based on your business priorities and capabilities.
3-5 Year Financial Model
Projection of technology costs under your current path versus your proposed roadmap. Quantification of cost savings from optimization, consolidation, and strategic prioritization.
Fractional CTO Leadership
Strategic guidance for mid-market companies that need senior leadership without the full-time executive overhead.
The Deep Dive
Many mid-market companies lack a Chief Technology Officer or have a CTO who is focused on day-to-day operations rather than strategy. DSV offers a fractional CTO service: we engage on a part-time basis to provide strategic technology leadership, help prioritize platform decisions, and guide technical direction.
This provides access to senior technology leadership that would otherwise be unavailable to mid-market companies, ensuring your technology roadmap is aligned with your business growth.
Engagement Model
Focused, high-impact sessions designed to provide maximum strategic value in minimal time.
Typical Investment
A fraction of the cost of a full-time CTO, with the same level of senior strategic expertise.
Strategic Leadership
Expert guidance to navigate complex platform decisions.
Investment Prioritization
Helping Boards focus on ROI-driven tech initiatives.
Execution Oversight
Ensuring vendors deliver against your strategic roadmap.
The BPR Foundation
Technology strategy is most effective when informed by business process understanding. When you reengineered your processes, you understand what capabilities technology needs to enable. When you develop technology strategy without understanding your processes, you often make decisions that don't solve actual business problems. Many clients conduct BPR first, then develop technology strategy that supports the reengineered processes. This sequence ensures alignment.
Professional Services:
Rationalizing Fragmented Tech Debt
The Challenge
A professional services firm with 150 staff and A$25M revenue had accumulated significant technology debt. They were running five different time and billing systems across practice groups, three different CRM systems, and a legacy business intelligence platform. Technology costs were growing, integration was poor, and staff were frustrated with fragmented systems holding back business growth.
Current State
Infrastructure cost A$800K annually. Data silos prevented effective business intelligence as data wasn't flowing to a common warehouse. Client visibility was poor due to inconsistent tracking across systems, making the financial close process complex and manual.
What DSV Did
Conducted a 9-week assessment mapping all systems. We developed a 3-year roadmap recommending the consolidation of five billing systems and three CRMs into single cloud platforms, implemented a central cloud data warehouse, and retired legacy BI infrastructure.
The Results
Delivered A$180K in annual cost reduction (from A$800K to A$620K) through consolidation and cloud migration. Rationalized platform landscape enabled real-time business intelligence, improved client visibility, and allowed the firm to scale service delivery without increasing technology overhead.
Engagement Phases
Mapping existing systems, technical debt audit, and stakeholder interviews.
Platform evaluation, consolidation opportunities, and strategic alignment.
Developing the 3-year roadmap and quantifying cost savings.
Refinement of recommendations and delivery of the final strategy.
Strategic FAQ
Clarity on technology leadership and roadmaps.
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