Our work, methods and tools
Methods and skills we use
Business design
The proposition for the use of Business Design is simple ‘Design the business well once or rebuild it poorly many times’. Behind that obvious statement are several considerations which are worth expanding on.
Design is everywhere. Look around you whilst reading this and everything you see will have been designed (unless you are looking at a loved one, pet or plant). In fact, most things you see will have been redesigned as well. I can extend the analogy to include architecture of the building that you are (probably) in. Therefore, design happens at different level of detail but now benefits from it being done holistically in a way that identifies the connected impacts of the modern world.
Enterprise architecture
There is a growing maturity in what the applications should look like for the business of the future, and it is very different to today. The designer should understand this and use it to create flexibility in the business operations supported by the tech. All too often the tech is not linked to the business successfully. It used to be that the tech should understand what the business would like to achieve and then fulfil that. With new digital technologies, the rules have changed as tech can enable a business to operate in a way not previously thought of. The enterprise architecture method therefore looks at what new business capabilities can be unlocked and then how tech will fulfil that.
Solution architecture
Tech solutions are becoming more complex and can be delivered in more complex ways with the advent of cloud computing. Before significant investment occurs, developing a solutions architecture allows and organisation to
Get a solution’s functions, features and scope right
Identifies how to integrate into a complex internal and external environment
Shows how it will be delivered on the right infrastructure