Our framework is versatile, allowing us to design either (1) a ‘top-down’ IT strategy encompassing the full spectrum of capabilities or (2) to focus on a subset of capabilities for a ‘bottom-up’ approach. This flexibility ensures that we can tailor our solutions to meet the unique needs and goals of each customer, driving maximum business value and efficiency.
Additionally, as part of the Cronos Group, we can tap into the broad set of skills and experience of over 600 competence centers and about 10,000 IT professionals, ensuring comprehensive support and expertise. In this way we can execute engagements in a broad scale of IT domains.
Strategy Capability Services
At 45 Degrees, our Strategy Capability Services are designed to provide pragmatic and reusable solutions across key strategic areas. We focus on delivering actionable insights and frameworks that empower our clients to continuously improve and innovate. Our approach is not about creating lengthy documents that gather dust, but about providing practical tools and methodologies that drive real-world results.
Key Capabilities:
- Business Alignment: ensuring IT initiatives are in sync with business goals.
- Benefits & Risk Management: identifying and managing potential benefits and risks.
- Operating Modelling: designing efficient and effective operating models.
- Financial Management: implementing robust financial management practices.
- Portfolio Management: managing a balanced portfolio of IT projects.
- Rationalization: streamlining and optimizing IT assets and processes.
- Business Change Management: facilitating smooth transitions during change initiatives.
- Business Readiness Management: preparing the organization for new initiatives.
- Innovation Management: fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.
Our Services:
- Benefits Dependency Networking: mapping out the dependencies and benefits of IT initiatives.
- Target Operating Model Design: creating new operating models tailored to your business needs.
- FinOps Services: from assessments to full-scale FinOps implementations, we ensure financial efficiency.
- Application Rationalization Framework: streamlining your application portfolio for optimal performance.
- Innovation Management Framework: our framework consists of six domains: Education, Ideation, Managed POCs, From POC to Production, Feedback Loops, and Innovation Culture.
People Capability Services
At 45 Degrees, our People Capability Services are designed to enhance organizational effectiveness through pragmatic and actionable solutions. We focus on developing capabilities that empower your workforce, streamline operations, and foster a culture of continuous improvement.
Key Capabilities:
- Accountability Modelling: simplifying task and activity assignments with a pragmatic "we do, they do" approach, avoiding the complexity of full RASCI modelling.
- Service Enablement: establishing service enablement teams that own defined platforms and empower other teams through platform services, best practices, knowledge sharing, training, and targeted consulting interventions.
- Organization Structure: eesigning efficient organizational structures that support strategic goals.
- Organization Change Management: facilitating smooth transitions during organizational changes.
- Workforce & Talent Management: managing talent effectively to ensure that the right people are in the right roles.
- Career & Incentive Management: developing career paths and incentive programs that motivate and retain employees.
- Skills & Readiness Management: conducting comprehensive skills assessments to identify gaps and prepare the workforce for future needs.
- Communication Management: enhancing internal and external communication strategies.
- Knowledge Management: implementing systems to capture, share, and utilize organizational knowledge.
- Supplier Management: managing supplier relationships to ensure quality and efficiency.
- Backlog, Planning & Resource Management: optimizing resource allocation and project planning.
Example of some of our Services:
- Accountability Modelling: as part of designing a strategic new Target Operating Model, we use a pragmatic "we do, they do" approach. This simplifies task and activity assignments, avoiding the complexity and unproductive discussions often associated with full RASCI modelling.
- Service Enablement: we propose a proven approach to set up a service enablement team that owns a defined platform with associated services. This team empowers different teams through platform services, best practices, knowledge sharing, training, and targeted consulting interventions.
- Skills & Readiness Management: our comprehensive skills assessment is designed to identify skills gaps without causing unnecessary disruption. The assessment is conducted in a way that does not come across as a threat to the people being assessed, fostering a supportive environment for growth.
Our approach ensures that each capability can be addressed with practical and reusable solutions, enabling your organization to continuously improve and adapt.
Platform & Security Capability Services
At 45 Degrees, our Platform and Security Capability Services are designed to provide comprehensive and pragmatic solutions across key areas of IT infrastructure and security. We focus on delivering actionable insights and frameworks that empower our clients to continuously improve and secure their operations.
Platform Capabilities:
- Reference Architectures: establishing standardized architectures to guide IT projects.
- Core Platform: building robust foundational platforms for IT operations.
- Automation Platform: implementing automation solutions to streamline processes.
- Application Development Platform: providing tools and frameworks for efficient application development.
- Data Platform: creating scalable and secure data management solutions.
- Workplace Management: enhancing workplace technology and management practices.
- (Hybrid) Application Management: managing applications across hybrid environments.
- Services Catalogue Management: organizing and managing IT services.
- License Management: ensuring compliance and optimization of software licenses.
Security Capabilities:
- Security Architecture: designing secure IT architectures.
- Identity & Access Management: managing user identities and access controls.
- Security Monitoring: implementing continuous security monitoring solutions.
- Security Incident Response: developing effective incident response strategies.
- Policy & Compliance Management: ensuring adherence to security policies and regulatory requirements.
Example of some of our Services:
- Azure Landing Zone Assessment: based on the Well Architected Framework, we assess existing Landing Zones using a pre-defined framework. We report back with a dashboard that includes recommendations ranging from urgent fixes to future enhancements. This assessment can be repeated periodically, such as every six months, to track progress.
- Data Governance Assessment: we take a holistic view of data governance, linked to nine domains: Data Classification, Access Control, Data Encryption, Data Quality & Metadata Management, Data Compliance & Regulatory Measures, Data Lifecycle Management, Data Cost Management, Data Monitoring & Auditing, and Data Incident Response & Disaster Recovery. We report back with scores for each domain and recommendations for next steps.
- Setting up a Service Catalogue
Our approach ensures that each capability is addressed with practical and reusable solutions, enabling your organization to continuously improve and secure its IT infrastructure.
IT Operations Capability Services
At 45 Degrees, our IT Operations Capability Services are designed to ensure smooth and efficient service management based on ITIL best practices. We focus on empowering our clients to take control of their service management processes, whether managed internally, by a single outsourcer, or multiple outsourcers. Our goal is to provide practical solutions that enhance operational efficiency and reliability.
Key Capabilities:
- Incident Management: efficiently managing and resolving incidents to minimize impact on business operations.
- Problem Management: identifying and addressing the root causes of incidents to prevent recurrence.
- Change Management: ensuring controlled and effective implementation of changes to IT services.
- Monitoring & Event Management: continuously monitoring IT services and managing events to maintain service quality.
- Release Management: planning, scheduling, and controlling releases to test and live environments.
- Capacity Management: ensuring IT infrastructure is capable of supporting current and future business needs.
- Performance Management: monitoring and optimizing the performance of IT services.
- Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery: preparing for and managing disruptions to ensure business continuity.
Example of a services offering:
- Service Management Assessments: We offer pragmatic assessments of key service management processes. Using a standard process approach, we evaluate the current state of each process without getting lost in methodology jungles or theoretical discussions. Our assessments provide actionable insights and recommendations to improve service management practices.
Our approach ensures that each capability is addressed with practical and reusable solutions, enabling your organization to continuously improve and secure its IT operations.
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Part of the Cronos Group
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