You keep it all.
Whatever you decide to do next, and whoever you do it with.
Why it matters
Most organisations have a strategy. Few have the order.
Strategies describe where you want to be. They rarely say what to do first, what it costs, or what you can stop paying for, so boards can’t fund them and teams can’t start.
The Technology Review and Roadmap does. It is surveyed at the level of the estate, not summarised from interviews, and every finding carries a financial picture you can stand behind.
Written by the people who would build it
Architects and engineers, not a strategy team. That is why the roadmap can be costed, and why a board can fund it.
What we look at
Your whole estate, system by system.
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Every system, one by one: servers, licences, end-of-life dates, integrations and security posture.
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Your data: where it lives, who owns it, and whether a number can be traced back to its source.
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What it costs to run today, by system and by supplier.
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How your reporting actually gets made, and how long each return takes.
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Your people: the skills and capacity you have, and what change will ask of them.
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Your AI readiness: whether your data, controls and people could support AI safely.
What you get
Five things you keep.
Numbers you can take to your board, and an order of work you can defend.
A data maturity score.
DataWhere your data stands today, scored so you can measure progress against it.
Your ICT run cost and estate size.
CostWhat you spend, on what, and how many systems you are really running.
Stray and duplicated documents, counted.
InformationHow much of your information sits outside the systems meant to hold it.
How long your reporting really takes.
ReportingThe hours behind each return, measured rather than estimated.
A costed order of work.
RoadmapWhat to do first, what each stage costs and returns, and what you can stop spending on.
The terms
Useful whatever you decide next.
Stop at the end.
If it isn’t working, you stop. There is no obligation to go further.
A named team.
The same senior architects and engineers from the first conversation to the final report.
Proof
The review that became the plan their Board funded.
A housing association of around 8,000 homes had two earlier strategy reports and no route its Board could fund. After our review, the Board approved a sequenced three-year programme, which has stayed on the plan and the budget the review set.
“Two earlier pieces of strategy work told us where we wanted to be. The detailed discovery completed by the Scout team was the first thing that told us the order, what it would cost and what we could stop spending on, and the Board funded the programme on that basis. Over three years the plan and the number have held, and the people running the platform are ours.”
Executive Director, a housing association
Find out where you really stand.
Start with a Priorities Session. We research your organisation before we arrive, and we will tell you whether a Technology Review and Roadmap is the right next step.
Book a Priorities Session
No cost, no commitment. Every enquiry is read by Stuart Arthur.
Who this is for
Who this is for.
Chief executives and finance directors who need a plan they can fund; boards carrying technology risk without a costed plan; heads of IT who know the answer but need it costed and approved.
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We do the research, you pick the top three objectives, and you leave with a shortlist and a written summary.
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