How we help

We offer three tightly connected services. Strategy without delivery is a slide deck; delivery without analysis is a gamble. Most engagements draw on all three.

We work on a small number of engagements at a time, and we’re deliberate about fit. The work we do best is senior, consequential, and hands-on — the kind where an outside perspective with real depth changes the outcome, not the kind that needs another pair of hands.

Service 1: Technology Strategy

The challenge: R&D organizations face relentless pressure to modernize — new platforms, new data demands, new expectations from scientists and leadership alike. But technology investments made without a clear line of sight to research strategy become shelfware, technical debt, or both.

What we do

• Develop technology roadmaps aligned with your R&D strategy and portfolio priorities
• Assess your current landscape: what’s working, what’s redundant, what’s missing
• Evaluate build-vs-buy and platform selection decisions with fit-for-purpose rigor
• Align R&D and IT stakeholders around a shared, achievable plan
• Right-size governance so decisions get made without bureaucracy

Outcomes

A technology direction your scientists, IT team, and leadership all recognize as theirs — with investment decisions that trace clearly to research value.

Who benefits

R&D leaders planning significant technology investment; IT leaders seeking genuine alignment with the science; organizations at an inflection point — growth, reorganization, or post-merger integration.

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Service 2: Project Management

The challenge: R&D projects fail differently than other IT projects. Scientific priorities shift, regulated processes constrain options, and the people who most need the solution have the least time to spend on the project. Generic project management doesn’t survive contact with a research organization.

What we do

• Lead technology delivery across the R&D lifecycle, from initiation through go-live and stabilization
• Streamline project activity ruthlessly around what adds value to the science
• Manage vendors, integrators, and internal teams to a single coherent plan
• Pace delivery to your organization’s real capacity for change
• Keep sponsors honestly informed — progress, risk, and trade-offs without spin

Outcomes

Projects that finish, solutions that get adopted, and teams that aren’t burned out by the process.

Who benefits

Organizations without spare senior delivery capacity; initiatives that have stalled and need experienced recovery leadership; teams implementing platforms in parallel with day-jobs that can’t pause.

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Service 3: Business Analysis

The challenge: The most expensive words in enterprise technology are “that’s not what we needed.” Requirements gathered superficially — or filtered through too many layers — produce systems that technically work and practically don’t.

What we do

• Elicit and document requirements directly with the scientists and operators who do the work
• Map current-state processes honestly before designing future state
• Translate between research language and technical specification, in both directions
• Validate that proposed solutions serve both immediate needs and long-term R&D goals
• Stay engaged post-deployment to confirm the delivered system creates the intended value

Outcomes

Solutions that fit the way your organization actually works — and a durable, shared understanding of your own processes that outlasts any single project.

Who benefits

Any technology initiative where the cost of getting requirements wrong is high; organizations selecting platforms; teams whose last implementation taught them this lesson the hard way.