Strategy, Architecture & Modernization

Make technology decisions with the whole landscape in view.

MC helps organizations assess complex technology environments, define pragmatic target states and govern the decisions that connect business priorities to platforms, integrations, data, engineering and operations.

Discuss Your Architecture

Connected enterprise architecture spanning experiences, platforms, integration, data and infrastructure

What this capability covers

Architecture across the decisions that shape change.

Relevant areas can include the business, technology and operating decisions that determine whether change remains coherent from direction through delivery.

Scope is engagement-specific; not every dimension is included in every engagement.

Business alignment

Business capability and technology alignment

Landscape

Application and platform landscape

Architecture

Enterprise, solution and commerce architecture

Connections

Integration, APIs and middleware

Intelligence

Data and AI readiness

Foundation

Cloud and runtime architecture

Trust

Scalability, performance, resilience and security by design

Delivery

Engineering, deployment architecture and observability

Sustainability

Maintainability, technical debt and vendor dependency

Investment

Technology cost and modernization sequencing

Governance

Architecture governance and operating model

Typical needs

Bring us the decision, constraint or transformation.

01Architecture health checks
02Platform and replatform decisions
03Modernization planning
04Integration redesign
05Composable and headless transition
06Enterprise landscape simplification
07Transformation blueprinting
08AI readiness
09Architecture governance during delivery

How MC works

Architecture that remains connected to implementation.

MC can operate independently at assessment and advisory level or remain involved through engineering and realization when appropriate.

01
Diagnose

Understand the landscape, constraints and decision context.
02
Strategize

Connect business priorities to a pragmatic direction.
03
Architect

Define target states, principles and dependencies.
04
Plan

Sequence the work into executable priorities.
05
Govern

Keep delivery decisions aligned with intent.
06
Realize

Carry architecture into engineering and change.
07
Measure

Review outcomes and adapt as the landscape evolves.

Outputs

Create clarity that teams can execute.

Depending on scope, outputs can include:

01Architecture scorecards
02Current-state and target-state views
03Findings and risks
04Architecture principles
05Decision records
06Dependency maps
07Modernization roadmap
0890-day priorities
09Governance model
10Executive and technical decision packs

Principles

Vendor-neutral. Outcome-led. Engineering-aware.

We do not start by forcing the problem into a preferred product. Architecture choices should reflect business objectives, existing constraints, total landscape implications and the ability of teams to implement and operate the result.

Connected pathways

Move from capability depth to the right engagement.

Relevant evidence

Approved work, when available.

Our Work

Architecture evidence will appear here when an approved CMS record is published.

No customer claims or outcomes are invented to fill this space.

Related insights

Thinking for complex decisions.

Insights

Relevant architecture and modernization thinking will appear here when published.

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What technology decision needs more clarity?

Bring us the decision, constraint or transformation. We will determine the right level of architecture support.