A fragmented platform estate, rationalized to what earns its keep.
Technology spend had grown faster than anyone could tie to value. Overlapping platforms, duplicated capabilities, and unclear ownership made it hard to say what the portfolio was actually buying.
Left alone, the estate would keep growing, each new system adding cost, integration, and operational risk while the return stayed unprovable.
We baselined the portfolio against total cost of ownership and the outcomes each system was meant to serve, identified redundancy and value leakage, and defined what to retire, renegotiate, or consolidate, independent of any vendor.
A repeatable way to judge any future system against cost and outcome, with the decision rights to enforce it.
Redundant platforms retired and stack overlap reduced, with annual run cost cut by 21% and a clearer view of what the firm was buying and why.
- Definethe outcomes the portfolio had to support.
- Assesscurrent spend, overlap, and capability.
- Alignleadership on what to keep and what to cut.
- Executethe rationalization sequence.
- Governthe decisions so the estate stays disciplined.