Your technology should be fueling the growth of your business, not constraining it.
But as you employ more people and introduce more offerings, what started as a couple of core apps has now become dozens of recurring subscriptions and custom applications. Your pocket-change tech investment is now tens of thousands, every month, and all you have to show for it is a tangle of integrations and workarounds that your staff are starting to actively avoid!
Over the last decade, we’ve seen this situation countless times, and we know exactly how to solve it. We can align your technology with your long-term business goals, so you’re running exactly the technologies required to excel, and only those technologies.
In collaboration with you and all your important internal stakeholders, we’ll identify how your business operates, its long term goals, and its current and upcoming threats and opportunities. We’ll then prepare a roadmap that articulates a multi-year plan to achieve your target state architecture. One that’s tailored to your organisation’s culture and capacity for change.
This is a valuable governance asset that can be shared throughout your organisation to ensure everyone is working towards realising your strategy. It also enables you to periodically sanity-check your strategy, confirming the direction you’ve set is still the direction you want to take.
Our Managing Director, Andrew Beaumont, will explain exactly how we can help your organisation.
In any architecture piece, governance is key.
You’re juggling dozens of critical initiatives, and you need to know that all your bases are covered. So your documentation must adhere to your governance framework, to the letter. Every “i” dotted, every “t” crossed, every risk mitigated.
But compliant documentation, alone, isn’t enough. You need to be able to deliver on time and within budget, and maintain the resultant solutions into the future. And those solutions obviously have to actually work; they have to support your business roadmap for years to come.
As the blueprint for those outcomes, your architecture documentation needs to be practical, achievable and ‘alive’. It needs to automatically adapt to the technical knowledge of the reader, and update automatically as your architecture changes, over time.
When you engage Target State, that’s exactly what you get. With more than a decade of experience working with 2,000+ seat organisations (including large government agencies), we know precisely how to efficiently document your current, transition, and target state architecture, so you can clearly quantify the gap and accurately define the effort required to bridge it. You’ll have documentation you can rely on, now, for project purposes, and in the future, for change governance purposes.
And, just as importantly, your project team will be able to deliver that end state as documented, so you’ll have no mid-project friction or delays.
Talk to our TOGAF-certified Managing Director, Andrew Beaumont, about your upcoming initiative.
Whether you’re embarking on a full-blown digital transformation journey, or you’re just tightening up ship, and rationalising your technology spend, the execution of your project is every bit as important as the strategy and architecture behind it.
You want your project completed on time and within budget, with all requirements met, and without compromising, whatsoever, on quality or compliance.
For that, you need expert project management.
At Target State, we have more than a decade of experience delivering enterprise architecture and digital transformation initiatives — for a list of high profile clients that includes large government agencies, corporations and not-for-profits.
We can act as your standalone project management team, or work hand-in-hand with your in-house resources to augment your existing delivery capacity. Either way, we’ll ensure everything remains on track.
Talk to our Managing Director, Andrew Beaumont, about how we can ensure the smooth delivery of your upcoming project.
For too long, enterprise architecture was an enterprise-only thing. SMEs simply couldn’t afford it or it was just too hard, so they just had to do without.
But Target State is here to change that.
Based in Brisbane, we’re a specialist consulting firm, founded with the express purpose of providing enterprise-grade architectural services to SMEs.
Whether you have 2 employees or 2,000, you can now take advantage of the specialised architecture practices that, for decades, have enabled large enterprises to successfully deliver complex transformations and realise nuanced strategy.
Why are we able to do this? Because times have changed. And technologies have changed. It’s now possible for an experienced enterprise architect to build out a proprietary suite of templates and repeatable processes that can be applied to virtually any business. (Just as a help desk can develop tools and employ tried-and-tested work practices to fix even the most complex computer problems quickly and efficiently.)
These efficiencies dramatically reduce the marginal costs of conducting the same kind of analyses and producing the same kind of deliverables, time after time, which means we can tailor our fees to your budget.
So there’s no longer any need to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for a full-time enterprise architect or a one-off (usually unaccountable) contractor.
TOGAF and Microsoft Azure certified, we’ve worked with public, private and not-for-profit organisations across all industries. We’ve successfully delivered hundreds of projects, and have had leadership involvement in projects worth tens of millions of dollars.
We’re practical, logical, respectful, curious, sensitive, precise, insightful, proactive and culturally aware. And, once engaged, we consider ourselves your strategic partner, not just your service provider. Our goal is always to provide direction you can trust, and to enable your organisation to seize the opportunities before it, while also mitigating any associated risks.
