glue:’s Consulting Services Framework provides a number of specialist pre-packaged services that help our clients clarify status and expedite decisions, plans and investments.
Strategy Definition
To help our clients clarify, define or validate the medium to long term (i) strategic intent for (ii) focus of direction of (ii) or investment plans in a particular opportunity or initiative. More 
Roadmap Creation
To help our clients understand their current state in relation to a future/desired state. In order to achieve this glue: creates the “management plan” with a sequential milestone plan of activities with risks & considerations to achieving the desired state. This includes the initial budgetary input effort required for an organisation to move from one state to another. More
Selection
A proven method that can help the management team to select the appropriate tools/technologies/applications for implementation. More
Business Case
To help our clients determine the commercial viability of a given initiative, intended change/investment or project.
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Upgrade/Migration Framework & Planning
The Upgrade/migration service assists the management team to define the scope and plan a migration/upgrade using a proven technology migration framework. More
Proof of Concept
To help our clients prove the capability of new technologies, methods or approaches via the definition of a narrow and well defined sample scope and clear success criteria.
The objectives of the Proof of Concept are to:
: Test, validate or prove certain assumptions behind the client's selection or claims made by the vendor or service provider
: To understand in further detail the 'impact' of the proposed investment so as to create a more informed 'readiness' plan pre or post investment
: To define some clear criteria for success against which an investment commitment will be made and the organisation proceed to execute on such investment.
Delivery and cost are controlled by the introduction of the relevant sections of glue: or best proactive methodology for the given domain.
Impact Assessment
To help customers review the potential impact of new technologies, processes, and methods on the current environment.
The objective of the impact assessment are to:
: Create a clear statement as to the synergies, overlaps, conflicts and implications of change or the introduction of something 'new' into the organisation
: To provide summary recommendations for the process of implementing the change or introduction.
Readiness Assessment
To help assess their readiness of the to proceed with a project/programme/Initiative.
The initiatives readiness is reviewed in terms of:
: Organisation
: Architecture, methods & approach
: Capability
: Risks, issues & constraints.
Project/Programme Mobilisation
The Mobilisation service assists the project team to define and plan the project using a proven initiation/mobilisation framework.
The objectives of the Mobilisation service are to:
: To provide the input and capability to complete the initiation stage of a project;
: To set-up the organisation, processes, methods, approach, scope and "RAID" for project delivery.
Maturity Assessment
The maturity assessment service supports the organisation in understanding exactly where it sits in terms of the overall maturity of its capability and investment to identify opportunities for future evolution and change.
The objectives of the Maturity assessment are to:
: Increase management understanding of the benefit of the capability and the required/nominated changes
: To provide guidance to it management about how to improve, evolve or adapt the competency.
Audit
The audit service provide management with a view of the current and future capabilities and limitations of the technical environment or, to provide management with a view of the current health of a situation in order to make stop/go decision.
The objectives of the Audit/health check are to:
: To identify performance issues and bottlenecks (root cause)
: To review current organisation, processes, methods, approach, scope and raid for the project (adherence)
: To provide recommendation to proceed/not proceed and implementation options for improvement
: To provide recommendations and options
Review
The aim of the review service in help management assess the current situation to determine its relevance and if it has sufficient definition to be translated in to a set of viable objectives, plans and deliverables.
The objectives of the review service are to:
: To identify key issues & concerns
: To provide options for decision making
: To remove constraints and imposed limitations
