Effective technology roadmap planning begins with the clear understanding of business objectives and strategy. Understanding scope, boundaries, requirements and focus of the technology roadmap and incorporating a broad understanding of market and industry technology direction is key to development plans and a successful outcome. A collaborative approach with incumbent client support functions and stakeholders ensures technology lifecycle and development plans are finely tuned against business and IT requirements.
Once defined, a controlled and structured plan encompassing system requirements, required technologies, drivers and targets, technology alternatives and timelines can be developed and a summary recommendations report produced. This is achieved through the provision of a repeatable service framework that underpins a robust and rigorous ‘evergreening’ process that can support ongoing technology lifecycle planning.
The service comprises of a phased approach where each phase closely aligns with the activities that an organisation might reasonably adopt when planning roadmaps for technology.
Discover
Building an understanding of business and IT objectives, IT capabilities, operational IT , commercial IT models and defining the scope, boundaries, requirements and focus of the technology roadmap
Analyse
Assessing technology options, aligning technology capabilities to IT and business objectives, provision of technology ‘evergreening’ process framework to ensure continued improvement and innovation
Develop
Develop the technology roadmap, critique and validate ensuring development plans continue to underpin IT and business alignment, provision of a report detailing recommendations