Modernize Your IT Stack

Don’t settle for a one-size-fits-all approach to modernizing your technology foundation.

We’ll help you determine what’s truly holding back progress and create a roadmap to tackle it quickly — while setting you up for longer-term improvements, too.

At FlexPoint Consulting, we help clients envision, plan, and deliver business transformation.

We consult a bit differently than most of our peers: we want to make you the hero of the story. We’ll enable you to succeed in the immediate effort and equip you to apply learnings to future efforts, with our support as needed.

We helped a new manufacturing CIO understand existing IT systems and processes, paint a picture of an optimized future state, and build a multi-year technology roadmap to bridge the gap in a prioritized manner.

Click on the above graphic to read more of the client success story.

A highly specialized manufacturing business spent considerable effort supporting redundant, outdated technology across 75+ systems and tools

Driver

The manufacturing company received a prioritized, actionable roadmap, with:

  • Clear understanding and visuals of existing technology landscape, with corresponding system dictionary

  • Diagrams depicting optimized future state technology and processes

  • Three-year roadmap of prioritized projects, to move through three phases of technology and process enhancements

Outcomes

Ready to take the next step in delivering real value through modern information technology?

Set up time with our Founder & CEO to share what you’re looking for, and to discuss how we can help.

Founded by consulting veteran Michael Daehne, FlexPoint Consulting is a management consulting firm with extensive experience in business transformation, technology modernization, process optimization, and organizational change management.

Based on our experience and expertise, we follow a proven approach to IT modernization. Together we’ll cut through the noise and prioritize your technology investment to deliver real value.

We’ll work with you to:

  • Understand true business needs and how your technology foundation is (and isn’t) holding back progress.

  • Map out your tech stack, highlighting standards and practices that are likely to serve you going forward.

  • Identify options to transition legacy technologies to modern offerings and work with your business and technology teams to define long-term goals and guardrails.

  • With a sense for what is possible in the long-run, work with you to identify the first area to address.

  • Create a high-level plan for the first digital modernization effort, including success factors, pointed questions to ask vendors, and more.

  • Customize a lightweight framework to use in further modernization decision-making, weighing potential impact against feasibility.

  • Combine all of these inputs into an IT modernization roadmap that includes the first effort, as well as the building blocks that make sense with your goals, guardrails, and timeframe. We’ll expect this modernization roadmap to change as you go along, so we’ll make sure you’re comfortable owning and adapting it going forward.

Approach

You’ll see serious benefits with this approach:

  • You can target finite resources toward technology enhancements that will best serve customers and team members

  • You and your team will practice the prioritization and planning process with a seasoned guide, so you’ll be confident doing it yourself next time

  • You’ll be a pro with reusable materials that we co-create to support ongoing decision-making

  • We’re just a phone call away for a sanity check as you navigate IT modernization over the coming years

Outcomes

Working with FlexPoint, you can gain:

We equip your team to move forward self-sufficiently

Confidence

We ask a lot of questions to understand then heart of what you’re after, then we work to address root causes, not symptoms

Focus

We use value- or deliverable-based contracts whenever possible so that we win together

Aligned Incentives

Every client and project is unique, so we customize all advisory, planning, and deliverables to meet your needs

Tailor-Made Guidance

During each engagement, we share tools and knowledge for you to succeed without us after the project completes

Transferable Skills

You’ll save money in the long run through capacity-building, skills development, and reusable tools and templates

Financial Savings

Read more about the why behind our approach, or contact us to learn more.