North Star Scoping
Ensuring the success of your next IT transformation.
You'll know as well as us how difficult it is to make IT transformations succeed. North Star Scoping sets you up for success from the start, illuminating your project's path before it begins.
We help you define crystal-clear goals, identify your risks, and aligned stakeholder expectations, all underpinned with a clear understanding of your why. We ensure these become your North Star, providing you with the tools needed to stay on track until you've hit your goals. Saving you time, money and headaches.
Do the costs of your transformation projects consistently outweigh the expected benefits?
Two years into a transformation project, the initial energy has waned and you have no way of determining or measuring whether you are still on track to achieve your original goals. People are starting to doubt the project will succeed.
You are not alone - A Standish Group CHAOS Report found that only 31% of IT projects succeed, wasting time and money due to:
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Incorrect team / resource allocation
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Blockers and risks not identified / no mitigations agreed
- KPIs and measurable outcomes not agreed up front
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No clearly defined scope
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Lack of buy-in from senior stakeholders
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The project is not delivering the benefits you need
Veraxis can help!
We guarantee unbiased results because we are only motivated by ensuring you end up with clear, tangible, measurable goals and outcomes. We are not invested in pushing you towards a certain technology direction, which means we can workshop your ideas with impartiality, ensuring only the best possible decisions are made for your organisation.
Veraxis will help you determine the 'why' - your North Star - and make you one of the successful 30%.
Helping you, helping your organisation
Whatever challenges you are trying to overcome, you need a clear understanding of exactly what you are aiming for and why. And you need precise ways of measuring your progress and success. Without this clarity, you risk wasted investments, misplaced resources and poor experiences for your staff, your customers, your partners and your suppliers.
North Star Scoping solves project failure challenges by constructively testing your aims to get to the root of the issue. Then we can help you to define the right project for your organisation and the metrics that can be used to understand your progress.
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Clarity On Where You Are Now
Understanding your context, challenges, priorities and your why. We build a realistic view of where you are today across people, process and technology.
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Look To The future
Working with stakeholders to build a picture of what your future looks like. We challenge you to establish cohesive, prioritised objectives whilst understanding the risks.
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Plan For Challenge
We can now articulate your North Star. We define the benefits and agree realistic metrics. Your North Star Dashboard keeps you on track throughout your entire transformation journey.
Service Breakdown
Package
A 10 day programme of work tailored to your organisation.
Objective: Clear goals, scope, outcomes and metrics for your project / programme, ensuring you start your digital transformation on the right foot, knowing precisely what you are trying to achieve and the measurable benefits.
Minimal Disruption
Dynamic and flexible approach. Working with key stakeholders and employees in ways that will cause minimal disruption to day-to-day working.
North Star Scoping is quick, lean, cost effective and objective and will significantly increase the chance of demonstrable and measurable project success.
Additional Deliverables
Beyond the scoping exercise, as trusted external advisors, Veraxis can continue to help you challenge and validate your approach, supporting you to ensure the best outcomes for you, your customers and partners.
We are able to deliver a number of additional follow-on deliverables including:
AI & Data Exploitation Strategy
Maturity
Assessment
Service
Blueprints
Validated
Business Case
As well as a pragmatic change and adoption strategy through our Adopt360 Service.
"Why couldn't I do this internally?"
In our experience it helps to use an external, unbiased company. Organisations and staff have their own preconceptions and expected outcomes from the start. Sometimes it's hard to take a step back and that's where Veraxis comes in. We are objective and provide expertise without pushing a particular outcome. We do this efficiently without taking staff away from key operations.
"Won't this be covered in our planned Discovery?"
The North Star Scoping is optimal as a pre-discovery activity, at the point you've identified a need or a challenge and are thinking about how it might be solved. It can also be useful for in-flight reviews. Veraxis are able to remain objective with no preconceived solutions, technology or agenda. The scoping exercise will inform your discovery and ensure the discovery is scoped correctly.
"How will I know if the service was worth it?"
We will work with your leaders and, at the end, measure how clear the goals, outcomes and benefits are. This ensures you have a cohesive leadership team driving the goals forward. During delivery you'll be able to track the benefits and key metrics using the strategy we've provided and there is a follow on service, which will help you to stay laser-focused on the goals.
"Can you give me a real-world example?"
There is a need to view data across disparate systems and you're wondering if AI is the answer. Before embarking on a large transformation our North Star Scoping service will ensure the goals and challenges are clear. We will think about culture, your technical estate, short and long term data management, business change... Getting this right before you start will save you time, money and headaches.