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“We are acquiring or merging and have to bring our IT together.”

IT Landscape Workshop

Business and IT at one table: in one to two days you get a shared picture of your applications, their dependencies and risks. The result is a basis for deciding on budget and next steps.

Occasions

When companies call us in.

Usually a decision is due. The business holds the budget, IT knows the systems, and neither can answer the question alone.

“Every department has its own tool.”

Sales, procurement and service have introduced their own solutions. Costs rise, the data does not fit together, and nobody has the overview.

The workshop deliversAll applications with their owners, the duplicates and rules for future purchases.

“The end of maintenance is set.”

The vendor ends maintenance, and the system integrator puts a seven-figure proposal on the table. Do you have to, and what comes first?

The workshop deliversWhat is really affected, what depends on the ERP and what comes first.

“We have acquired a company.”

Two landscapes, duplicate systems, synergies in the business plan. What do you merge, what do you switch off?

The workshop deliversA shared application map and first candidates for merging or switching off.

At the table

One map that management, business and IT read the same way.

  • Management or division heads: decide and own the budget.
  • Business departments: know the processes, the value and the daily gaps.
  • IT: knows the systems, dependencies and risks.
  • Us: neutral facilitation, translating between both sides.

What you get

A basis you can decide on.

  • An application map that business and IT understand alike.
  • The systems that need action, assessed by risk and business relevance.
  • An action list with owners and dates.
  • A results document to take into your next budget round.

Also available as a pure training on the fundamentals of IT management, for example for new IT leads or key users.

How it works

Four steps, fixed dates.

  1. Step 1Advisory call30 minutes by video. You describe your landscape and the decision ahead.
  2. Step 2PreparationYou receive a short template. We review existing lists and documents in advance.
  3. Step 3WorkshopOne or two days with IT and the business: remote, at your premises or at a venue we arrange. First the method, then your landscape.
  4. Step 4OutcomeApplication map and action list as a document. Assumptions and open points are marked.

Agenda

The day in detail.

Times, content and exercises of the one-day workshop. Two details about your landscape are enough, and we will send you a proposal that fits.

  1. Opening
  2. Method in brief
  3. Inventory
  4. Dependencies
  5. Assessment
  6. Actions
  7. Close

You will see the times and content of each block once you have sent the form.

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Experience

From practice and from the lecture hall.

We have worked in the IT landscapes of large and mid-sized companies since 2007. We have taught the fundamentals at a university and examined students on them.

  1. 2021–2022 · Teaching

    Lectureship “Introduction to IT Management”

    Heilbronn University of Applied Sciences, business informatics programme, in the teaching area of Prof. Dr. Helmut Beckmann. Summer semester 2021 and winter semester 2021/22, more than 140 students examined. Content: information management, data management, lifecycle management, enterprise architecture management and strategic IT planning.

  2. Projects

    Architecture in large landscapes

    Solution and integration architecture in S/4HANA programmes and grown SAP landscapes, among others at Körber, ALDI SÜD, Carl Zeiss and Berliner Stadtreinigung. See our client work

Once the map is in place and a decision is due: Architecture Safeguarding Review →
When it should grow into lasting architecture management: EAM Implementation →

30 minutes, and you know whether the workshop fits.

You describe your landscape and what is ahead. We tell you which format fits, or that none does.

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