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Is your technology fit for purpose? 9 checkpoints for a strategic technology review
Nearly every business is a technology business nowadays. Technology has become such a central part of a business and its ability to thrive.
Therefore it’s important to make sure that your technology and your relationship with your technology provider (whether in-house or external) is fit for purpose.
My fellow partner Kevin Cunningham & I recently completed a strategic technology review for a client, and here we detail the 9 areas we examined. They can apply to your whole set up, or just one relationship within it, and they can also apply to your in-house functions.
1. Strategy
How well does your technology align with the strategy of you business? Does your technology enable you to pursue that vision?
For example, if your ambition is to scale across territories or verticals, does your technology scale with you?
An enterprise architecture framework is the highest level view of a technology stack aligning the core functions of the business with the technology to fulfil them. Without this clear view from the very top, it’s easy for technology systems to become over-complicated as new components get added over time. (I call it “spaghetti-fication”!)
