Advisory

One hard question, answered properly.

Some technology decisions are expensive to get wrong and hard to undo. Advisory is a short, fixed engagement that gets you a clear, written answer before you commit, from someone who has made these calls from the inside.

The questions it answers

Build or buy?

Whether to build it yourself, buy a platform, or extend what you already have, with the cost of running each option counted, not just the cost of getting it live.

Which vendor?

Choosing a platform with someone who has been on both sides of the table: years selecting and implementing enterprise platforms as a buyer, and years building the platforms institutions buy.

Is this architecture going to hold?

A review of what you have, or what you are about to build, against where the business is going. What will break first, what it will cost when it does, and what to do about it now.

Where is the work actually getting stuck?

An operations and technology diagnostic on site: time with the people doing the work, one job traced end to end across every record it touches, and findings mapped to standards such as ISO 9001. Records and communication get fixed before anything is automated, and the recommendation is the smallest change that moves the real constraint.

Is this roadmap right?

A second opinion on a plan you have stopped being able to see clearly, from someone with no stake in which way it goes.

How it works

  1. A conversation

    Free, about thirty minutes

    You describe the decision in front of you. I tell you whether it needs outside help at all, and if it does, what a useful answer would look like.

  2. A scoped question

    Fixed fee, agreed up front

    We write down the question, what I will look at, and when you will have an answer. Most advisory work takes days; the larger reviews take a few weeks.

  3. A written answer

    Yours to keep

    A recommendation you can hand to your board, your team or your vendor: the options, the trade-offs, what I would do and why, and what would change my mind.

“His strategic thinking and plan was easily integrated into an already complex system because he began with the end in mind.”
Rob Weaver · CIO — enterprise IT turnaround & ERP recovery

Have a decision coming up?

Tell me what it is. If it does not need outside help, I will say so.

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Other ways to work together: Fractional leadership (a set number of days a month) · Hands-on delivery (a scoped build)