Who it's for
Designed around these roles
CIOs, CTOs, enterprise architects, technology leaders and business sponsors evaluating vendors or platform change.
Purpose
Make technology choices that fit the business and the systems around them.
Compare options in the context of business needs, existing platforms and transition constraints. Build a roadmap that explains the choices, not just the sequence of purchases.
- Best for
- CIOs, CTOs, enterprise architects, technology leaders and business sponsors evaluating vendors or platform change.
- Planned outputs
- 3 draft outputs for your team to review
- Topics
- 6 topics of learning and practice
- Formats
- Online, Onsite, Hybrid
- Engagement
- Standalone workshop or a module in a wider engagement
At a glance
Why teams take this workshop
Challenges this workshop addresses
Vendor-led roadmaps
Legacy dependencies blocking change
Technology decisions without explicit trade-offs
How the workshop works
From your challenge to working material
Follow how the topics build towards each planned output. Select a stage or a topic to step through it.
Learning outcomes
What your team leaves with
The outputs below are proposed workshop deliverables: drafts and working tools for your team to review and develop. Final scope is agreed before an engagement. Business results depend on subsequent decisions, implementation and context.
- Output 1A capability and dependency map for a defined technology decision.
- Output 2A draft vendor and platform evaluation scorecard.
- Output 3A modernisation roadmap with decision gates, transition risks and ownership.
Workshop outline
Topics and the outputs they feed
The outline below shows the learning scope. Sequence, depth and timing are agreed during scoping.
| Session | Topic | Builds towards |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | Business capabilities and technology requirements | A capability and dependency map for a defined technology decision. |
| 02 | Current platforms, dependencies and technical constraints | A capability and dependency map for a defined technology decision. |
| 03 | Build, buy, extend and replace options | A draft vendor and platform evaluation scorecard. |
| 04 | Vendor evaluation, integration and portability | A draft vendor and platform evaluation scorecard. |
| 05 | Modernisation sequencing and transition risk | A modernisation roadmap with decision gates, transition risks and ownership. |
| 06 | Roadmap governance, ownership and review gates | A modernisation roadmap with decision gates, transition risks and ownership. |
01
- Topic
- Business capabilities and technology requirements
- Builds towards
- A capability and dependency map for a defined technology decision.
02
- Topic
- Current platforms, dependencies and technical constraints
- Builds towards
- A capability and dependency map for a defined technology decision.
03
- Topic
- Build, buy, extend and replace options
- Builds towards
- A draft vendor and platform evaluation scorecard.
04
- Topic
- Vendor evaluation, integration and portability
- Builds towards
- A draft vendor and platform evaluation scorecard.
05
- Topic
- Modernisation sequencing and transition risk
- Builds towards
- A modernisation roadmap with decision gates, transition risks and ownership.
06
- Topic
- Roadmap governance, ownership and review gates
- Builds towards
- A modernisation roadmap with decision gates, transition risks and ownership.
Engagement paths
Two ways to run this workshop
Our team will work with the requirements and platform context you are authorised to share, without treating a workshop scorecard as technical due diligence.
Standalone workshop
Use a decision workshop to compare options for a defined platform or capability and outline the information still needed before selection.
