IT Strategy & North Star

The North Star architecture is designed to realise the business strategy and is defined by tailoring a simple structured approach to your needs:

Understand business strategy including key performance drivers and metrics
Align the As-Is IT and Data Architecture with the Business Architecture
Play the desired outcome of the Business Strategy through the Business Architecture, into the IT Architecture
Identify IT Capabilities that directly underpin strategic differentiators, any future gaps or hotspots
Design an actionable North Star Architecture that satisfies the Business needs
Create tangible Roadmaps that demonstrably deliver the desired business outcomes

This transparent and fact based approach secures buy-in at all levels

Roadmaps

Creation of coherent actionable roadmaps in terms of business value outcomes provide transparency, bridging the gap between IT strategy and business outcomes.

Managed on an ongoing basis in line with changing business priorities, they visualise the future whilst managing current resources and navigating constraints effectively.

The combined north star target state and change portfolio present a clear outcome with associated value case.

Process Evolution

Predictable delivery of the North Star is dependent on an enabling IT framework equipped to demonstrate value-add and manage change.

Tailoring freely available best practice frameworks naturally aligns IT with broader governance needs (budgetary, risk, regulatory, quality, etc) and avoids the need to reinvent.

This approach quickly embeds a sustainable process that can evolve along with key maturity milestones and can be realised via existing productivity and collaborative technology (eg. Microsoft365) or dedicated PPM tooling.

Capturing and reporting on KPI’s (standards & principals compliance, exceptions, rework, prioritised utilisation, etc) Architecture value-add is clear to see, with ongoing strategic alignment and subsequent delivery assured.

Approach

Infratecture’s style is one of partnership, seeking to coach and leave you with an embedded & sustainable outcome.

Using a complementary portfolio of services as a starting point, an engagement is tailored to the suit each need.

Each service provides it’s own independent value, a combination of services is structured to address holistic challenges of all scales.

Complementing existing knowledge with publicly available reference material (APQC, TOGAF, NIST, DAMA-DBOK, ITIL, Vendor reference architectures, etc) you are equipped with tried and tested best practices, suitable for further development without restriction.

Engagements

Using real world experience, engagements are tailored around core services and a simple method.

The approach has been actively & successfully used over multiple engagements and transformation activities.

To achieve the desired outcome, various constructs are suitable, from flexible and cost-effective interim and fractional leadership to a classic SoW or Contract basis.