Case study · Service 02 · Enterprise architecture & operating models
Choosing a target infrastructure and IT service-delivery model
The decision was not simply cloud versus on-premises. Leaders needed to consider internal and outsourced delivery, traditional and converged architecture, containers and virtual machines, cybersecurity, organizational capability, and cost. The engagement brought those choices into one structured decision framework.
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- Setting
- National professional-services firm
- Duration
- Nine-month architecture engagement
- Scope
- Infrastructure and IT service-delivery model
The engagement
From complexity to an actionable path.
The work was structured around the organization’s operating context, existing constraints, and the decisions leaders and delivery teams needed to make. The scope and deliverables reflect the work performed.
Workstreams
What was delivered
Work products built for decisions and delivery.
- 01
Current-state business capabilities, value streams, services, processes, applications, and infrastructure views
- 02
Target-state scenarios and comparative options analysis
- 03
Research on modern infrastructure, application, and service-delivery practices
- 04
Requirements, gaps, pain points, constraints, and risk mitigations
- 05
Prioritized future-state architecture recommendations and roadmap
- 06
Order-of-magnitude cost estimates supporting budgeting and the transformation case
Outcomes
What the work enabled.
- Gave senior leadership a comparable view of materially different infrastructure and service-delivery choices.
- Connected architecture recommendations to skills, governance, security, operating processes, and investment needs.
- Sequenced improvements so the target state could be pursued as a practical roadmap rather than a single technology event.
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