A sequenced plan, not a wishlist

Digital transformation is the broadest of the three - process, tooling, and capability change across the business. A digital roadmap is the sequenced plan that makes any transformation actually executable, dependency by dependency. Technology strategy is narrower still - the platform, build-vs-buy, and architecture decisions that either support or constrain everything above them. Most engagements touch more than one of these, because they're genuinely interdependent.

Both are on the table, but they're scoped separately. Some clients want the assessment and sequenced plan and run execution internally or with existing vendors. Others want us to carry specific workstreams through to delivery. We're explicit up front about which parts of the roadmap we're executing versus which parts are handed off, so there's no ambiguity about ownership.

No - and any firm that promises a transformation outcome before understanding your actual organisational constraints is guessing. What sinks most transformation efforts isn't a bad plan, it's a plan built without accounting for who actually has to execute it and what they're already stretched thin doing. What we can commit to is a roadmap that's honest about those constraints and sequenced so early wins build the case for the harder changes later.

A maturity assessment and roadmap usually takes four to eight weeks depending on how many business units and systems are in scope. Technology strategy decisions on a specific platform question can move faster - sometimes two to three weeks - if the evaluation criteria are already clear.

By dependency and by what's actually blocking other work, not by which initiative generates the most internal enthusiasm. We map what has to be true before something else can happen, then sequence around that - a roadmap where three unrelated initiatives are all marked top priority hasn't actually made a decision.

No - the scale of the assessment changes, but the underlying discipline of sequencing by dependency instead of by wishlist applies just as much to a fifty-person company choosing its next platform as it does to a multi-division enterprise.