Consulting · Modernization Assessment
Know what to keep, replace and connect before you commit a budget.
A six-week engagement that turns a patchwork of systems into a costed, sequenced plan your leadership can decide on. Engineers who build and connect systems like yours every day map your systems.
- Typical length
- About six weeks
- Delivered by
- CREA-KO solution architects and engineers
- Ends with
- A decision on the first stage
Who it is for.
Leaders of organizations and institutions running on systems that grew one at a time and must now decide what to fund next.
Signs you need it
- Work leaves the system for spreadsheets, email and paper.
- Growth, a merger, a new mandate or a departing vendor has forced the question.
- Several systems hold the same records, and nobody can say which one is right.
- A budget line exists, but nobody can yet say what it should buy first.
How the six weeks run.
- Week 1
The operating model
How the organization works: who decides, what the system must record and where money and resources move.
- Week 2
The estate
Every system, database and integration inventoried, with its owner, its users, its records and what depends on it.
- Week 3
The breaks
Where work leaves the system, where records split or go stale, and where the operational risk sits.
- Week 4
The options
Each system classified keep, replace or connect, with cost ranges and an order that keeps operations running.
- Week 5
The plan
A staged, costed roadmap, and requirements a procurement or a build can start from.
- Week 6
The decision
A working session with leadership that ends in a decision on the first stage.
What you get.
Built on what CREA-KO has done since 2007: engineering operational systems around how organizations work, and connecting them to the systems already in service.
- Every system in the estate has a named owner and a fate: keep, replace or connect.
- The first stage has a cost range, a sequence and requirements ready to procure or build.
- Leadership has decided on that first stage in the closing session.
- The plan is yours to execute with anyone. It does not oblige you to build with CREA-KO.
Start with one conversation.
Tell us about your situation. If this engagement fits, we will say so on the first call, and if it does not, we will say that too.