Current-state assessment
A structured review of applications, infrastructure, licensing, suppliers and internal capability, scored against a defined maturity model.
Service 01
IT Strategy & Consulting
Independent advice on where your technology should go next, plus a costed, sequenced plan for getting there.
Overview
Senior judgement, on demand.
Most technology problems are not really technology problems. They are decisions that were never written down, ownership that was never assigned, and spend that was never questioned. We start there.
Solvidian works as an external technology function for organisations that need senior IT judgement without carrying it as a permanent headcount. We assess what you have, benchmark it against where the business is going, and hand back a plan your team can actually execute.
Every engagement produces written artefacts you own outright: a current-state assessment, a target architecture, a prioritised roadmap and a cost model. Each recommendation carries the reasoning behind it, so your team can challenge it now and still understand it two years from now.
Scope
What's included
Scope is agreed in writing before an engagement starts. These are the components we most often build it from.
Target architecture
A documented end-state for applications, data and infrastructure, with the trade-offs and the reasoning behind each decision written down.
Prioritised roadmap
Initiatives sequenced by dependency, risk and payback rather than by whoever shouted loudest, with indicative effort and cost per phase.
Technology due diligence
Pre-investment or pre-acquisition review of a target's technology estate, engineering practice, key-person risk and remediation cost.
Vendor & contract review
Independent evaluation of proposals, licensing positions and renewal terms, with a defensible scoring matrix behind the recommendation.
Operating model design
Team structure, RACI, service ownership and the governance forums needed to keep decisions moving after we leave.
Deliverables
What you receive.
Tangible artefacts you own outright, in editable formats, with no dependency on us to read or maintain them.
- Current-state assessment report with maturity scoring
- Target-state architecture diagrams and decision record
- 18–36 month roadmap with phasing and dependencies
- Indicative cost model and business case
- Risk register with owners and mitigations
- Executive summary pack for board or investor review
Approach
How we run it.
Four stages, with a decision point at the end of each. You can stop after any of them.
01
Discovery
Stakeholder interviews, document review and read-only access to inventories. We map what exists before we form any opinion.
02
Assessment
Findings scored against a maturity model, with gaps and risks evidenced rather than asserted.
03
Design
Target architecture and operating model built with your team in working sessions, so decisions carry internal ownership.
04
Handover
Roadmap, cost model and board pack delivered and walked through, with an optional review cadence afterwards.
What changes
What you should expect to be true afterwards.
If these are not true at handover, the engagement has not finished.
- A single agreed version of where the estate stands today
- Technology decisions traceable to a documented rationale
- Spend redirected from maintenance toward capability
- A plan your own team can pick up and run without us
Questions
Common questions
A focused assessment for a single business unit usually runs three to four weeks. A full estate review with target architecture and roadmap typically runs six to ten weeks, depending on how many systems and stakeholders are in scope.
Yes, and most engagements run that way. We work with the people already in place rather than around them, and the handover is structured so your team can carry the plan forward once we step out.
Related
Other service lines
Network Design & Consultancy
Network architecture, segmentation and performance engineering: designed on paper, validated in test, documented for the people who run it.
Systems & Communications Software Design
Design of software that runs on and around computer systems and communication equipment: device interfaces, control planes and the platforms that manage them.
Cloud & Infrastructure Advisory
Cloud adoption planned properly: landing zone design, migration sequencing and a cost model that still holds twelve months in.
Next step
Bring us the symptom. We will help you name the problem.
A short scoping call costs nothing and usually saves a great deal of specification work later.
At a glance
What a first conversation covers
- What is actually happening, in your words
- Which discipline the problem belongs to
- Whether we are the right firm for it
- Rough shape, effort and sequence if we are
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