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Develop Practical Digital Strategies with ThinkDigital™

Aligning IT with Corporate Strategy in the Age of Digital Transformation 

Managing the shift to business-driven IT

There was a time that IT services played little more than a supporting role in the overall success of an enterprise. That’s no longer the case for today’s digitally transformed businesses. At this point, IT has become central to almost every company in every industry. With that shift, though, there has also been some drift away from the core purpose of IT within many organisations. 

What has happened is that the integration of technology into the modern economy has often created a sense that IT is an end unto itself, rather than a means of achieving business goals. That has led to a measurable disconnect in how technology staff and management see their work in relation to their company’s overall strategy; with many information technology service management (ITSM) professionals having a clear understanding of their company’s strategy, but only a few believing that the work they do is aligned with that strategy. 

That lack of coordination can prove costly to any business if allowed to continue unchecked. Digital technologies should be seen as an integral element and a strategic enabler to delivering specific organisational goals. 

ThinkDigital™ - shaping your digital future

 ThinkDigital™ is Arrk’s methodology for rapidly conceiving and developing practical digital strategies. It connects the executive level processes of developing the enterprise vision and business planning, with the process of designing and delivering digital platforms and products. 

It is a structured framework, which is nonetheless highly collaborative and inclusive. We use a rapid, time-boxed, flexible process that balances the need for rigor with the wisdom of doing just enough and doing it quickly. 

Working with your senior people, our consultants use a set of Arrk proprietary methods based upon proven and visual design thinking, as well as lean tools and techniques. Collaborative, inclusive and feedback driven, it’s workshop oriented to rapidly create shared understanding between all participants. 

The Playback - A Digital Roadmap Based on Business Value

The most critical outcome from ThinkDigital™ is a common understanding amongst senior people as to the vision and objectives for the digital programme. However, we go much further and ensure we deliver tangible business-related outputs. 

Working together we help identify key dependencies and consider aspirational timescales and milestones, whilst defining products, services, and interfaces that need to be digitised – culminating in an agreed prioritised digital roadmap based on business value and outcome modelling of the ‘best few’. 

Whilst having standalone value, the outcomes from ThinkDigital™ have been designed to dovetail seamlessly into our Architecture and Design engagement services. 

ThinkDigital™ Outcomes:

  • Defined vision, drivers, objectives, constraints
  • Defined boundary of scope
  • Record of relevant personas and interfaces
  • Prioritised digital roadmap
  • First iteration of lookahead grid and identified best few

Our Case Studies

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Design and Shape Your Digital Outcomes with EmbArrk™

Solving big problems. Fast.

Effective Planning Drives Success

Each year, organisations around the world face astronomical project failure rates, often wasting millions of pounds per failed project. Projects most commonly fail because there is a lack of attention and efforts being applied to key project performance factors.

From the outset, there needs to be a clear link established between the project and the organisations key strategic practices. The project plan needs to cover the planned delivery, the business change required and the means of benefits realisation.

There should also be a detailed plan developed before any release date of a project is announced. Inadequate planning is one of the major reasons why projects spin out of control.

Designing Your Digital Solutions

EmbArrk™ is Arrk’s solution definition workshop methodology that sharpens the focus on IT development projects. It provides a rapid understanding and confirmation of an organisation’s problem and looks to establish user requirements to allow group brainstorming sessions to shape and design the digital outcome. It is a structured but highly adaptable approach that uses story finding, high levels of visualisation and the “realtime” development of project artefacts to build stakeholder consensus and translate the agreed need into a project delivery roadmap.

Customer stakeholders and Arrk consultants participate in a series of workshops, sessions and practices, this close collaboration results in looking in detail at project management, technical analysis, product analysis and business analysis. As the team progresses along the process the level of fidelity around the project increases.

Each EmbArrk™ engagement follows a six-step core process:

Orchestration

Defining the agreed outcomes, identifying all the appropriate participants (sponsors, knowledge experts and end-users) and logistics

Investigation

Understanding your business, market, competitors and end users through both interview and desk research methodology

Consideration

Defining customer personas and prioritising their goals and pain points through smart planning, and matching them to your current ‘As Is’ process

Realisation

Designing and modelling proposed solutions, mapping out new ‘To Be’ user journeys and translating emerging concepts to paper prototypes

Validation

Socialising design progressions with internal knowledge experts, whilst resolving any identified technical and business spikes

Demonstration

A comprehensive playback of the outcomes to sponsors and stakeholders, showcasing digital simulations and a costed delivery roadmap

A Cohesive, Shared Vision

A typical EmbArrk™ engagement is highly adaptive and responsive to the information and understanding gained by each of the parties as the workshop progresses. Therefore, the precise scope and nature of activities can change during the engagement, subject of course to the mutual agreement of the parties.

However, due to the extremely collaborative approach involved in an EmbArrk™ discovery, it brings together all stakeholders to form a cohesive, shared vision and it is a highly efficient and effective way of engaging with busy stakeholders. Outcomes from an EmbArrk™ engagement have been designed to dovetail seamlessly into our development methodologies.

Typical EmbArrk™ Outcomes:

  • Shared project or program vision
  • High level release plan and/or roadmap
  • Visual (low fidelity) prototypes
  • Prioritised master story list
  • User personas and red route analysis

Our Case Studies

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