One proposal and nothing to compare it against
A supplier’s proposal arrives, with its price and its list of advantages. Nobody knows whether half of it is needed.
IT consulting to decide on technology with judgement, and in writing
We put the options on the table with their cost and leave you a written plan. Carrying it out is a separate job, and anyone can take it on.
What you get, by name
Documents you can open and take with you.
- The diagnosis of your infrastructure’s real state and what you pay.
- The options, each with its cost and with what it leaves unsolved.
- A phased plan: what to do now and what can wait.
- The starting point, to measure against later.
- The criteria we decided with, so you can use them again unaided.
Technology decisions made blind
Consulting gets bought when something expensive must be decided and nobody inside can judge it.
Paying for things nobody uses
Licences from a project that stalled, services that renew themselves, tools bought by somebody who has since left.
Buy a tool or build it
There is a product that does what you need, and there is building it. What each costs and who maintains it afterwards are almost never on the table.
All three miss the same thing: a written criterion for choosing between the technology in place.
How a consulting job runs
Four steps, and almost nobody writes down the fourth.
Diagnosis
What is installed, what is being paid for, and where the business stops if something fails. Charged for, and short.
The options
Each route with its cost, what it solves and what it leaves unsolved. No single recommendation.
The plan
What to do now, what can wait and in what order, with the starting point.
It ends here
The plan is the deliverable.
Who this is for, and who it is not for
A good fit
- Businesses facing a technology investment with nobody inside to judge it.
- Anyone who suspects they pay for things they never use.
- Anyone torn between buying a tool and building one, who wants the numbers first.
Not a fit
- Anyone after a second opinion with no intention of changing anything.
- Anyone arriving with the solution already chosen, looking only to have it endorsed.
Frequently asked questions
Why is the diagnosis charged for?
It is the work of finding out what you have: what each depends on and what is paid for it. The plan gets written afterwards.
What gets measured to know whether it worked?
Time spent on the process, manual errors, volume handled with the same resources and what it costs to run, before and after. The reference is the situation before.
What has a client decided with this?
One client built a solution in-house rather than buy a tool, because the cost and the features did not justify it. Another stopped paying for services it barely used.
Can you carry out the plan yourselves?
Yes, contracted separately; your supplier or your staff can follow it. If the relationship continues afterwards, that is a separate engagement.
Tell us about your situation
Tell us what decision you are facing. The first call costs nothing.
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