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With extensive experience across technology markets and international jurisdictions, we are well-versed in what it takes to make tech an integral part of delivering for customers, colleagues and constituents.
Our tech research and advisory practice areas span the tech stack, its integration with product and operations, plus the cost intelligence and value management that finance requires.
Furthermore, we regularly publish fact based insights for tech executives on our articles page. Our perspectives are also regularly quoted up in the mainstream media and industry journals.
Practice Areas
The specific tech research and advisory practice areas that we cover are:
• Artificial Intelligence: From pilot to production, we provide strategic advice about governance, platforming and model integration with an outcome focus: effectiveness over efficiency.
• Sustainability: Beyond the carbon intensity of IT (including AI), we also help with digital literacy and inclusivity, future of work, modern leadership and adaptive governance.
• Data and analytics: Spanning the insights function from data governance, platforming, information architecture, DataOps, master data management and data quality.
• Software: Focus areas include agile/DevOps, release management, quality engineering, integration model and enterprise architecture.
• Cost intelligence: Covering trends & practices that allow executives to gain true visibility into the full extent of organisational tech spend (in and beyond IT) and the value created.
• Security: Anchored on cyber resilience with reference to NIST 2.0, deepening cyber awareness, zero trust, provider convergence and the evolution from logs to insights to agentic actions.
• Vendor selection and management: Taking a vendor agnostic approach to assessing and advising on the vendors in the above practice areas. Focus includes engagement models, value management and vendor selection/rationalisation.
• Research value management: Ensuring that you maximise the value for your spend with other research and advisory providers throughout the life of your research contract.
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Articles and press
We regularly publish fact based insights on our articles page. Topics span our practice areas, including the tech strategy implications and opportunities. Our perspectives are also regularly quoted in the mainstream media and industry journals.
Mastheads and journals include The Australian Financial Review, The Australian, Information Age, itNews, CFOtech, The Stack, TechMonitor and IT Brief.
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