Danny truly believes that a good network strategy facilitates successful business outcomes. He has over 25 years of expertise in network and security consulting, engineering, and architecture.
Discovery & Requirements
The objective of this phase is to gain a comprehensive understanding of your network including connectivity, LAN, WAN, WiFi, security, support model, BCP, operational model, capabilities and current challenges. We achieve this with the following:
Documentation: We review your existing documentation and records. Ideally this should include current contracts for network services, utilisation reporting, IT roadmap, incident report, commercials, SLA reporting, network topology diagrams, etc.
Workshops & Interviews: We conduct a number of workshops and interviews with key stakeholders, including leadership, management and IT. Workshops are fully facilitated by the lead consultant with supporting presentations that feature current market trends.
Objectives: Finally, we will have a strategic requirements workshop to fully understand your vision and objectives for the future.
We would then provide you with a Discovery & Business Requirements document to validate our findings. This process helps bring together all project stakeholders together and fully align on next steps as well.
Developing Your Strategy
Next, we consider strategic options to meet your requirements. We use an iterative process to identify options, condense them into diagrams and present them to you. Our analysis includes budgets, benefits, limitations, timescales, etc.
Following numerous workshops, the team will narrow down the options until we identify a preferred strategy. We then pull together a high-level strategy design with a detailed budget. This can then be presented to management to obtain approval to compile the business case.
Building a Business Case
Following any preferred bidder or procurement decisions, we put together a financial business case, starting with updated budgetary costs to reflect the accurate commercials. This will include:
Flexible and adaptable changes in migration scheduling and planning.
Assurance that the business case can be interrogated to get any viewpoint required using meta data on each cost.
A dashboard for visuals and pivot tables to export data, plus segmentation to show business cases for different business units.
CapEx & OpEx expenditure tracking.
Updating the budgetary commercials with values provided through the RFP, to track project costs through implementation.
Roadmapping
Once a strategy has been defined, we work with you to develop the project roadmap, from procurement of any & all services to implementation. We take your priorities, pain points, geographic regions & criticalities into consideration.
We then provide a graphical timeline based on the way your organisation is structured which can be used to present the roadmap to all project stakeholders and internal customers.
Procurement
We can easily integrate into your procurement approach, working to deliver a comprehensive RFP document that ensures a strong market response and meets your requirements.
We fully manage the RFP process including supplier Q&As and evaluation. We use an industry standard approach to scoring and agree a detailed evaluation matrix with the client ahead of releasing the RFP to the supplier short list.
Learn more about our procurement practices here.
Implementation Support
We can also support you during the implementation in the following ways:
- Project & Programme Management
- Business Case Management
- Technical architecture support
- Supplier Management
- Communication Management
- Risk & Issues logging
Check our Project Management Office page for more information.
Previous clients have found many benefits with these services, including:
Delivering In-Scope: As we have managed the process from the start, we are best placed to ensure the project is delivered as defined in the requirements.
Mediation: As a 3rd Party, we can mediate contentious issues during implementation between the supplier & yourselves.
Stakeholder Management: Throughout the Requirements & RFP Process, we will have already built relationships with global stakeholders, helping drive the implementation
Client-First Approach: We will work to the methodologies & processes of the client, to work as a team and not “us & them.”
Measuring Success
A critical part of any project is to validate that investments have yielded positive results. We work with you to develop KPIs, then track their success using Excel, PowerPoint or Power BI to capture that data and present it back.
Boots
In addition to 2000+ UK sites, Boots is a multi-service retailer that operates in multiple countries across Europe, Asia and the America’s. StableLogic audited the existing network arrangements, then undertook a business requirement gathering process and designed a new network strategy.
VocaLink
Part of Mastercard, VocaLink run the UK Link ATM network and the BACS infrastructure which managers the transfers of funds between banks. As critical national infrastructure the reliability and availability of the network is key. StableLogic completed a network audit, benchmarking and contract negotiation to reduce cost and enhance service levels.