Holding CompanyDigital Strategy
A group-wide digital roadmap for a holding company
A multi-sector holding company launched a comprehensive roadmap program for its subsidiaries’ digital goals and sustainable growth. A framework agreement at holding level and additional protocols per subsidiary maximized legal and operational speed.
- 1/4Discovery: more than 40 interviews, an inventory of systems and integrations.
- 2/4Analysis: the dependency map is drawn, risks are ranked, quick wins set apart.
- 3/4Synthesis: the target architecture and an 18-month roadmap in phases.
- 4/4Delivery: a board presentation; scope, cost and measure for every phase.
- 4 weeks
- Intensive analysis and synthesis time per program
- 8 subsidiaries
- Work pool clarified
- 15+ years
- Minimum industry experience of the consulting team
Problem
- Fragmented application landscape
- There was no clear roadmap for the applications and infrastructure that could be shared across the group.
- Difficulty of central orchestration
- Different financial technologies and regulatory requirements could not be managed from one center.
- A fast-changing market
- Revenue-raising and cost-reducing areas had to be discovered while complying with capital markets regulation.
Solution
- Three-part methodology
- Information gathering (2 weeks), analysis (1 week), synthesis (1 week); in-depth interviews with executives and key staff.
- Benefit–cost synthesis
- A strategic report for senior management based on analysis of revenue-generating and cost-reducing areas.
- Subsidiary-specific scope
- Priority discovery, detailed analysis and an operational program plan for each subsidiary.
Technical notes
- Current-state architecture inventory
- Application portfolio and consolidation analysis
- Benefit–cost–risk matrix
- Program plan and phase sequencing
Related services
What comes next
Short-, medium- and long-term investment strategies were tied to a concrete plan; the group-wide shared intranet project is in its final phase. The route for document management, BPM and next-generation financial solutions has been set.
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