Strategic consulting helps chief information and technology officers, engineering managers and senior enterprise architects develop superior skills for producing formal enterprise architectures in their usual context: The requirements, objectives and competitive advantages of the business.

Strategic consulting organizes around a core set of pervasive business concerns to offer competitive solutions, practices and strategies founded on long-established business computing principles, accepted technology standards and sustainable practices. Superior use of technology is always for the sake of extending the capacity of the business to acquire superior capabilities and competitive advantage.

Each consulting program is an organized blend of in-person consulting for competitive knowledge, expert-led workshops focused on producing specific objectives, and related technology training. A typical engagement will take 30 to 45 days – transitions could take up to 18 months.

Each consulting program begins with orientation (disorientation rather) and progresses always towards its strategic objective. Performance is consistently monitored and measured. It ends with the successful transfer of superior knowledge to key actors in order to produce and sustain competitive advantages for the company.

Business architecture is gaining traction in the industry and visibility at top standards organizations. Formulating the business architecture will soon become a necessity for large enterprises competing globally. Acquiring the necessary skills and knowledge is a significant and costly effort. We help you lower this cost and ensure your organization is well equipped to produce its business architecture.

Model-driven programs are designed to help our customers learn, adopt and utilize superior MDA principles, methods and practices for software and systems development. The programs include access to our model transformation technology framework, The CephMTF 4, a technology specifically designed to complement standard tooling for model-driven environments. The CephMTF 4 framework makes it possible for our customers to effectively adapt their development environment across the multitude of available model driven environments, architectural frameworks, and their home-grown solutions for model-driven approaches.

MBSE is rapidly gaining adoption across major engineering, defense, and aerospace companies. It is also starting to gain attention with other engineering and technology innovation companies as the consolidation of engineering analysis and design practices for efficiency and improved time to market. We have been involved early in the process and have seen engineering communities attempt their adoption with no signs of success. They failed because they could not take care of the most fundamental concerns in 4 key areas of practice that we have identified as essential. We will help you avoid the inevitable failure of the do-it-yourself (DIY) approach – the only approach you cannot afford.

The shift from a “project-centered” approach to an “Enterprise Assets portfolio” approach requires an upfront strategy for establishing the proper enterprise model taxonomies with tool support, project-specific and project-independent lifecycle management, and the overall practices, policies, and governance structures required to sustain a robust and usable enterprise model in the tool environment. We will help you with a fundamental approach to formulate a strategy specific to your environment, enterprise assets needs, and congruent with your development methodology.