Business alignment
Start with the services, operations and decisions technology needs to support. The strategy must make sense outside the ICT function.
Advise / ICT / IM Strategy
A technology direction your executive team can stand behind.
We help large organisations find where their technology and information foundations are holding them back, then set a costed direction to fix it.
The challenge
Connect ambition to the capability behind it.
A useful strategy makes the relationship between business direction, technology capability and investment explicit. It gives leadership a basis for deciding what to keep, what to change and where to invest.
Technology decisions get made one at a time: whatever broke, whatever a vendor pitched, whatever budget was available.
Over a few years the gap between what is spent and what is achieved widens.
Strategies get written, then sit on a shelf because they are not tied to funding or delivery.
When this service makes sense.
Technology investment is disconnected from business priorities.
Your operating model or organisational direction has changed.
Leadership needs a clear position before committing funding.
From need to outcome
A clear line through the work.
Understand the starting point. Do the work that matters. Give your team something practical to carry forward.
Understand
Business direction
Current capability
Investment constraints
Do the work
01Assess the current state
02Define the target capability
03Prioritise investment
Carry it forward
An executive-ready ICT and IM strategy
Scope of work
The detail behind the delivery.
A clear technology and information direction, tied to what your organisation is trying to achieve. The scope reflects your priorities, the operating environment and what needs to be achieved.
An honest baseline
Review systems, information practice, governance and capability together. A target state is only useful when the gaps are understood.
A deliverable direction
Connect investment priorities to security, architecture, people and delivery capacity, so the recommendations can move into planning.
What we cover
ICT / IM Strategy- Current-state assessment of ICT and information management
- Alignment to business strategy and operating model
- Target capability model and architecture direction
- Investment priorities and sequencing
- Security and governance position
- Operating model and resourcing implications
- Executive and board engagement
Our approach
Structured work.
Purpose at every stage.
The method follows the work, not a generic playbook. Each stage connects to the decisions, capability or delivery your organisation needs.
Our approach / stage 1
Understand the business and its objectives
Connect technology and information priorities to the operating model and business direction.
Your operating environment
Different pressures.
The same need for clarity.
Governance, obligations and delivery constraints differ. The engagement is shaped around the organisation you run, not an assumed environment.
Public sector
Agencies and councils setting direction through funding cycles, machinery-of-government change or new legislative obligations.
Commercial organisations
Enterprises aligning technology investment to growth, acquisition or cost objectives.
Intended outcomes
What this work is designed to change.
A direction leadership uses in budget decisions.
A shared language between IT and the business.
A defensible investment case.
Specialist expertise. Practical application.
Technology strategy belongs in the business conversation.
Start with the right conversation
Define the need.
Shape the engagement.
We begin with what needs to change and the decisions or work your team needs to support. These are useful starting points for a conversation about ict / im strategy.
Business strategy and operating model
Existing ICT plans, architecture and system registers
Known constraints, priorities and executive stakeholders
The scope, people involved and expected outputs are agreed around your organisation’s needs.
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What you need to know.
How is this different from a roadmap?
The strategy sets the direction and priorities. A roadmap turns them into a funded, sequenced plan. Many clients do both.
Who do you need from our side?
An executive sponsor, IT leadership and a cross-section of business stakeholders, agreed up front.
Can YOKU deliver what the strategy recommends?
Yes, through our delivery services, but the strategy stands on its own and you are free to take it elsewhere.
Let's move the work forward
Make the next decision with confidence.
Tell us what needs to change, what is at stake and where you need support. We will discuss the advice, delivery or specialist capability the work calls for.