For the people accountable for business-critical processes and applications
For the people accountable in banks, insurers and large enterprises who have to modernise a business-critical process or an established business application — and who want to establish, before they invest, what really has to change.
Typically: unstable legacy applications, knowledge that sits with individuals, landscapes of Excel, Access and VBA, pressure from a platform decision, manual re-keying between systems, or a migration that is due.
Three clearly bounded planning stages. Transparent prices. No obligation to have Agile-IS deliver the implementation afterwards.
The path is for people who face a real modernisation decision and want to avoid putting the wrong solution in place too quickly.
Scope and pricing
Three stages that build on one another — from a robust view of the current state through to preparing the internal alignment.
What really needs to be modernised?
We make visible how the business process, knowledge, responsibilities and applications work together today, where the critical dependencies lie and which risks affect the process.
Target state
A robust view of the current state
Fixed price €3,000 plus VAT
For situations where it first has to be established reliably what actually needs modernising.
Which modernisation path is viable?
Building on the current-state assessment, we develop and evaluate possible modernisation paths. We consider business impact, technical viability, risk and organisational requirements together.
Target state
Ready for decision
Fixed price €7,500 plus VAT
You then know which modernisation paths are viable and can justify a preferred direction internally.
Includes the Clarity stage.
How can the chosen path be aligned across the organisation?
We make the chosen modernisation path specific enough for internal alignment and prepare it for subsequent implementation.
Target state
Ready for internal alignment and implementation
Fixed price €12,500 plus VAT
The preferred path is made specific enough for the necessary business, technical and organisational alignment to be conducted on a sound basis.
Includes the Clarity and Direction stages.
You do not have to have picked a stage yet. In the conversation we check how far the decision has already come and what is actually needed.
Not sure yet whether there is any need to modernise at all? Start the Initial Assessment
Fixing the solution too early does not only put budget behind the wrong direction. It also ties up the people, the time and the attention that a second attempt often struggles to mobilise again.
The process
The basic structure stays the same. How deeply we go into the target state, the options and internal alignment depends on the stage chosen.
Existing information, documentation and the current situation are placed in context together.
The business process, the reality of its users, the knowledge, the roles and the application are recorded systematically.
The core problem, the risks, the dependencies and the actual need to modernise are worked out.
The findings are consolidated, to the depth of the planning stage chosen, into a view of the current state, a basis for decision or a path ready for alignment.
The results are discussed together and the sensible next step is agreed.
When the technology, the business logic and the knowledge sit with a handful of people, modernisation planning first creates transparency about what actually has to be done, and a robust basis for the internal decision.
We sort out the problem, the risks and the routes to a solution, and build the basis on which you can defend the next modernisation step internally.
For your internal alignment
Download the compact overview of the Path to Successful Modernisation. It sets out the three planning stages, their target states, what each includes and what each costs — ready to pass on to managers, budget holders or purchasing.
Frequent questions
The three planning stages are priced individually: Clarity €3,000 plus VAT, Direction €7,500 plus VAT, Alignment €12,500 plus VAT. Each later stage includes the one before it, so the amount named is the full price of that stage and not a surcharge.
No. If a robust view of the current state already exists, you can begin directly with Direction or Alignment.
That depends on how far the decision has already come: Clarity builds a robust view of the current state, Direction leads to readiness for decision, Alignment prepares the chosen path for internal alignment. In a 20-minute conversation we work out together which stage your situation actually needs.
Yes. The results are meant for internal alignment and can be passed on to managers, IT, governance and budget holders. For the alignment that happens before you commission anything, the service overview is ready — it sets out the three planning stages, what each includes and what each costs.
No. The path exists precisely to avoid premature technology decisions. Which solution makes sense follows from understanding the problem and the target state.
Yes. What matters is that the application supports a business-relevant process and that the situation cannot be solved by an isolated technical repair.
At minimum the person accountable in the business, plus people who know the actual workflow and the application. Further roles from IT, governance or management are involved depending on the situation.
No. You receive a robust basis for decision-making and modernisation. A detailed specification written before the problem is sufficiently clear would fix the solution too early.
No. The results form a basis for decisions you can use independently. If Agile-IS does take on the implementation, work can continue without repeating the fundamental clarification.
It ends with a specific, aligned modernisation path. That can be targeted stabilisation, step-by-step modernisation, a migration, a new application, or an organisational change first. Implementation is then the modernisation itself.
