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Well-Planned™ — The Technology Strategy Operating Model

A strategy-assurance approach that takes a business from problem to funded roadmap — assessing the as-is operating model and defining a target operating model with the proprietary Strategic Alignment Roadmap (SAR).

Two focus areas

Assess where you are — engineer where you need to be

Well-Planned™ addresses every aspect of business and IT change: from planning and strategy development, through opportunity and capability assessment, to program mobilisation and implementation. It concentrates on two things.

Assess
Assessing the as-is operating model

Analyse business problems, current investments and technology trends to identify and prioritise the opportunities for business performance improvement.

Implement
Defining & implementing the target operating model

Define and implement a target operating model that aligns with the organisation’s objectives — using Signify’s proprietary Strategic Alignment Roadmap (SAR) tool.

The approach · four phases

From strategic context to a funded roadmap

Well-Planned™ delivers comprehensive strategy-assurance and development activities to assess and implement the needed capabilities, a future-state architecture, and an integrated roadmap.

Phase 1
Strategic Context Confirmation
Project InitiationGoals DefinitionOpportunity DefinitionGuiding Principles DesignDocumentation Gathering
Phase 2
Current State Baseline
Opportunity ValidationBusiness Gaps IdentificationSkills AssessmentCapabilities AssessmentTechnology Assessment
Phase 3
Target State Definition
Business Impact AssessmentTechnology MappingPeople PlanningEnterprise Architecture DesignConceptual Architecture Design
Phase 4
Roadmap Development
Business Case DevelopmentInvestment Financial PlanningStrategic Roadmap AlignmentRisk ManagementProgram Monitoring
Disciplines

Technology Strategy · Risk Management · Portfolio Management

The output is the same every time: the needed capabilities assessed and implemented, a future-state architecture defined, and an integrated roadmap your leadership can fund and your teams can deliver against.