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Technology strategy & roadmaps
Connect technology decisions to organizational priorities with a clear vision, investment logic, and practical path forward.
- Maturity assessments
- Technology vision
- Cost optimization
- Investment roadmaps
Objective advice. Informed decisions.
Turn your transformation ambition into confident execution.
Digital and technology advisory for public and private sector leaders.
01Clarity
02Alignment
03Execution
Decisions designed to move
About the firm
Objective advice.
Built for action.
SV Strategy Services is a practitioner-led consulting firm based in Ottawa, helping organizations across Canada and globally make better digital and technology decisions and carry them through to results.
Senior perspective, grounded in delivery.
Meet the leadership We work with executives, technology leaders, and delivery teams, bringing independent advice informed by experience across strategy, architecture, sourcing, assurance, and implementation. Engagements are structured for clear accountability, with senior oversight and delivery leadership aligned to the work.
01Direct senior involvement
02Independent, evidence-led advice
03Strategy grounded in delivery reality
04Public and private sector perspective
Services
Advisory support from
strategy through delivery.
From technology direction and target architecture to solution selection, delivery assurance, and change readiness, we provide objective advice and hands-on support tailored to your needs.
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Enterprise architecture & operating models
Shape the capabilities, governance, processes, information, and technology needed to make strategy operational.
- Target architecture
- Capability models
- Governance design
- Operating models
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Strategic sourcing & solution selection
Make defensible platform and vendor decisions through structured requirements, market analysis, and procurement support.
- Solution gap analysis
- Future-state requirements
- Vendor analysis
- RFx and selection
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Project assurance, readiness & delivery oversight
Bring an independent view to delivery health and organizational readiness, surface risks early, and focus leadership action.
- Project assessment
- Readiness assessment
- Risk analysis
- Executive reporting
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Transformation delivery & implementation
Work alongside teams to govern delivery, modernize processes, implement solutions, and translate transformation plans into results.
- Program governance
- Change management
- Process modernization
- Agile implementation
How we can engage
Support shaped to the decision and the delivery need.
Engagement formats
Focused advisory engagement
A time-boxed engagement to frame a decision, test options, and establish a clear way forward.
Independent assessment
An objective review of strategy, architecture, delivery health, risk, or organizational readiness.
Executive-level hands-on support
Work shoulder-to-shoulder with leaders and teams through planning and execution.
Practical arrangements
- Duration
- From focused work over a few weeks to multi-month or longer delivery support, depending on scope.
- Commercial model
- Flexible fixed-fee or time-and-materials arrangements aligned to the nature of the work.
- Delivery model
- Remote and hybrid delivery, with on-site availability where the engagement benefits from it.
- Partnering
- Available for direct engagements and subcontracting opportunities.
Where we workServing organizations across
Serving organizations across
diverse operating environments.
SV Strategy Services supports organizations operating in accountable, competitive, and service-critical environments, where technology decisions must reflect policy, operations, commercial realities, and delivery risk.
View selected founder experienceAccountable environments balancing policy, service outcomes, stewardship, security, procurement, and delivery risk.
Competitive environments focused on growth, operating efficiency, integration, customer value, and pragmatic investment.
Service-critical environments where access, continuity, workforce readiness, simple processes, and trusted information matter.
How we work
A practical,
collaborative approach.
We begin by understanding your context, then work collaboratively with your team to assess options, make decisions, and move into execution.
Assess
Build a fact base around the current state, decision context, constraints, risks, and opportunities.
Align
Bring leaders and stakeholders together around priorities, outcomes, and the decisions that matter.
Architect
Translate ambition into a coherent future state, roadmap, operating model, and delivery plan.
Deliver
Stay close to execution, manage risk, and equip teams and leaders to sustain momentum.
StrategyServices
“The best strategy creates confidence in the next decision—and momentum for the one after that.”
Leadership
Srivatsan Vijayakumar
Founder & Managing Director
A technology strategy and digital-transformation leader with more than 15 years of experience across public and private sectors.
Srivatsan’s work spans technology strategy, enterprise architecture, operating-model design, strategic sourcing, program assurance, organizational readiness, and complex solution delivery. He combines an engineering foundation with business leadership and has led multidisciplinary teams through high-stakes, enterprise-scale change.
Education
Business AdministrationSchulich School of Business
Computer EngineeringUniversity of Ottawa
Professional credentials
- PMPProject Management Professional
- TOGAFEnterprise Architecture
- CISAInformation Systems Audit
- CSPOCertified Scrum Product Owner
- PSMProfessional Scrum Master
Perspective
Perspectives.
Short-form thinking on strategy, architecture, and delivery from the founder.
Selected founder experience
Selected consulting engagements.
Selected engagements led or supported by the founder across his career. Together, they reflect work across sectors and the firm’s five service areas.
01Service 01 · Technology strategy & roadmaps
Turning IM/IT cost visibility into a transformation roadmap
- Context
- A federal department faced high run costs, limited enterprise-wide spending visibility, and constrained capacity to invest in transformation.
- Founder’s contribution
- Combined maturity assessment, expenditure analysis, public-sector comparators, operating-model opportunities, and prioritization into an actionable transformation roadmap.
- Value created
- A fact-based view of cost, maturity, risk, and investment choices that supported executive alignment on how to run, grow, and transform IM/IT.
02Service 02 · Enterprise architecture & operating models
Architecting secure screening services for modernization
- Context
- A federal organization needed to replace long-standing screening and controlled-access applications that created operational, integration, data, security, and compliance risk.
- Founder’s contribution
- Connected business architecture, application, information, security, infrastructure, process redesign, and Agile requirements into a coherent target-state platform and roadmap.
- Value created
- A secure, integrated architecture and operating foundation with clearer traceability from business needs and processes into solution delivery.
03Service 03 · Strategic sourcing & solution selection
Selecting modern platforms for stakeholder, finance, HR and pay services
- Context
- A national arts organization needed to replace separate legacy platforms supporting stakeholder information and reporting as well as finance, HR, payroll, and enterprise operations.
- Founder’s contribution
- Across two related selections, translated current-state needs into future-state requirements, procurement documents, use cases, evaluation tools, due diligence, and implementation foundations.
- Value created
- Structured, evidence-based selection processes that connected platform decisions to operating-model improvement, integration, data, adoption, and delivery readiness.
04Service 04 · Project assurance, readiness & delivery oversight
Building readiness and oversight for enterprise HR and pay transformation
- Context
- A government-wide HR and pay transformation needed coordinated oversight across interdependent workstreams and an objective way to assess organizational readiness for cutover.
- Founder’s contribution
- Supported transformation governance, integrated risk and dependency management, executive reporting, and development of a standardized readiness framework and scorecard.
- Value created
- A clearer, evidence-based mechanism for monitoring delivery and organizational preparedness while escalating risks and dependencies to leadership.
05Service 05 · Transformation delivery & implementation
Launching the digital foundation for national health coverage
- Context
- A national health program required new operating processes and digital infrastructure to support accessible coverage at country-wide scale.
- Founder’s contribution
- Led cross-functional delivery across enrolment, provider management, claims, payment, and reporting; shaped processes, requirements, data models, releases, and implementation quality.
- Value created
- An integrated and scalable service platform supporting healthcare access for hundreds of thousands of residents and the long-term operation of a new national authority.
06Service 05 · Transformation delivery & implementation
Delivering defence renewal through process change and performance management
- Context
- A national defence organization needed to modernize maintenance and supply-chain operations while strengthening enterprise performance visibility and accountability.
- Founder’s contribution
- Combined field-led process transformation across five workstreams with Agile delivery of a pilot SAP-based enterprise performance-management solution.
- Value created
- Evidence-based operational improvements and a scalable performance foundation connecting strategic objectives, KPIs, enterprise data, and transformation oversight.
07Service 02 · Enterprise architecture & operating models
Unifying a fragmented technology landscape to support growth
- Context
- An automotive leasing and services group had grown organically and through acquisition, leaving two operating businesses on distinct technology stacks with limited collaboration, information siloes, and manual processes.
- Founder’s contribution
- Assessed business, information, application, integration, and infrastructure needs; evaluated target-state scenarios; and defined prioritized recommendations across finance, CRM, leasing, rentals, and reporting.
- Value created
- A practical target architecture and implementation path connecting business priorities to platform choices, integration needs, process improvements, and adoption risks.
08Service 03 · Strategic sourcing & solution selection
Selecting enterprise finance technology for a multi-company organization
- Context
- A northern development corporation needed to replace a legacy finance platform across multiple subsidiaries while reducing paper-based work, improving integration, and strengthening access to management information.
- Founder’s contribution
- Led needs assessment, process and requirements analysis, market scanning, vendor evaluation, demonstration design, scoring, implementation planning, and commercial due diligence.
- Value created
- A transparent selection process that connected solution fit to operational improvement across finance, reporting, projects, budgeting, and fixed assets.
09Service 03 · Strategic sourcing & solution selection
Modernizing care delivery and back-office platforms through two connected selections
- Context
- A community healthcare provider relied on fragmented legacy systems and manual processes across client services, HR, payroll, and finance, limiting efficiency, integration, and decision support.
- Founder’s contribution
- Across two engagements, defined target capabilities and requirements, redesigned processes, assessed solution options, supported procurement, and established implementation and change foundations.
- Value created
- Two structured enterprise selections aligned technology decisions with improved service processes, integrated information, stakeholder readiness, and practical implementation planning.
10Service 02 · Enterprise architecture & operating models
Choosing a target infrastructure and IT service-delivery model
- Context
- A national professional-services firm needed to decide among cloud, hosted, edge, hybrid, and on-premises options while addressing legacy risk, service-delivery constraints, and investment priorities.
- Founder’s contribution
- Assessed the IT operating model, architecture, applications, skills, governance, and processes; compared target-state alternatives; and converted the preferred direction into a costed improvement roadmap.
- Value created
- An evidence-based target-state direction with prioritized architectural improvements, risk mitigations, and order-of-magnitude investment estimates.
Contact
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