Technology Strategy and Management Consulting
BRSG Technology Strategy and Management Consulting practice is a partnership
with the business leadership of our clients that is focused on finding
actionable, reliable technology solutions to meet current business
challenges and to develop and exploit new business opportunities.
We believe technology should serve business and that technology for its own sake is rarely a wise use of scarce resources. It is for this reason that thinking and planning strategically about technology investments must be founded on, and forever subservient to, the over-arching business objectives and realities that drive the investment.
Further, confidently making wise technology decisions requires having solid, objective information. And yet it is often difficult for executive management to get the right information at the right time, or to fully trust the information they receive.
Software development is a fundamentally and intensely human activity whose success is highly dependent on the frequency and quality of communication between participants. Communication between the business and technical communities is one such critical channel of communication that is so often strained or altogether broken. A technology decision that is wise in every way can turn into a major problem if those implementing that decision are unable to work in a productive and coordinated way.
BRSG offers executive advisory services focused on these issues that deliver significant leverage to those charged with making and carrying out critical technology investment decisions.
Some of the valuable services we have provided to our customers include:
- Evaluating emerging technologies for suitability and risk
- Technology proofs of concept that validate assumptions, expose risks and build confidence
- Technology vendor selection
- Participating in business development initiatives, from conceptualizing and writing the sales pitch to delivery
- Prototypes to support business development
- Preparing and delivering technology assessments, including architecture and design reviews
- Project and process assessments
- Software product conceptualization and managemenet
- Serving as liaison between the technology and business communities within the organization and with external organizations
- Building financial models of software business units, including capital, P&L and staffing projections
- Managing and solving critical software crisis
- Overseeing and leading software development organizations
- Designing and implementing software development organizational structures
