Build, Buy, Keep, Replace, or Stop Decisions
A council compares complete strategies for its benefits system, separates migration from future exit, and calculates when a higher-priced option pays off.
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Vendor Management and Contracts
A supplier announces a feature removal fourteen months ahead. The buyer must check rights, recover business rules, and test an alternative before negotiating.
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Cloud Cost Operations and FinOps
Trace a rising cloud bill through usage, commitments, unit costs, and service requirements, with clear owners and evidence for each spending decision.
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Technology Budgets and Total Cost of Ownership
A partial four-million estimate becomes nine million over the same three years. Reconcile the costs, then test the assumptions behind the next case.
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Program Management Across Projects
Eleven projects reported green, yet the combined forecast missed a regulatory deadline. The recovery plan makes integration, decisions, and readiness visible.
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Project Portfolio Management and Priorities
Ninety-four projects were approved, forty-one were running, and the one the strategy depended on had been waiting for staff for eleven months.
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Adoption and Benefits Realization
The new claims system had been live for a year and a third of the branches used it. The business case had booked the savings in month one.
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Data Migration Reconciliation and Cutover
Row counts matched on both sides at cutover. Month-end totals disagreed by eleven thousand. The count had been the only check anyone wrote down.
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The Strangler Fig and Coexistence Architecture
Three years in, sixty percent of features had moved, twenty-three adapters kept the old system alive, and nobody could say which system owned a customer record.
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Migration Strategy and Estate Assessment
The register mapped 203 systems to 299 hosts. Discovery found 340 hosts, including 41 unregistered ones; the initial migration plan had missed their dependencies.
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Migration, Modernization, and Transformation
The program moved three hundred servers to the cloud in fourteen months and called it transformation. Two years later billing still changed once a quarter.