Aphari Ltd
Aphari Programme Health Check
Aphari helps organisations transform their digital/technology operating model, adopt cloud services, establish system and service integration capabilities, and manage multi-supplier delivery. Our programme health check provides an assessment of programme status against our best practice framework. Applicable throughout the transformation lifecycle from definition, procurement, and delivery to live service.
Features
- Provides validation of programme status against 'known-good' best practice frameworks.
- Assessment of scope, stakeholders, risks, roadmap, benefits, capability, sourcing, solutions.
- Conducted by multi-disciplinary team, with extensive supply-side multi-sourced delivery experience.
- Provides an integrated and holistic view across all programme functions.
- Addresses specific challenges including managing parallel procurements and multi-supplier delivery.
- Covers legacy contract exit and transition management aspects, where appropriate.
- Assessment approach based on pragmatic application of public-domain best practices.
- Our framework includes MOP, MSP, PRINCE, COBIT, TOGAF, ITIL, P3O.
- ‘Big IT’ experience yet independent of suppliers and large consultancies.
- Deep domain expertise across programme, technical, security, service, commercial aspects.
Benefits
- Enables management control of technology transformation and cloud adoption programmes
- Provides programme stakeholders with an independent assessment from experienced perspective.
- Enables the programme to confirm strengths and address any weaknesses.
- Identifies key risks and issues based on 'real world' experience.
- Highlights cross-functional inter relationships, concerns and opportunities for improvements.
- Highlights techniques for mitigating risks of multi-vendor/cloud delivery models.
- Helps to ensure continued viability of the programme business case.
- Aphari's assessment approach avoids lock-in to proprietary or 'branded' methodologies.
- Our experienced team speaks to stakeholders in their own language.
- Aphari provide proven techniques and knowledge to enhance programme capability.
Pricing
£350 to £1,650 a unit a day
Service documents
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Framework
G-Cloud 14
Service ID
1 7 1 0 5 5 6 7 4 9 6 6 1 5 6
Contact
Aphari Ltd
Andrea Williams
Telephone: 07734 723044
Email: enquiries@aphari.com
Planning
- Planning service
- Yes
- How the planning service works
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This service provides validation of the overarching programme status, fitness and quality, against our integrated best practice framework, and can be applied at any point in the transformation/cloud migration lifecycle – from strategic alignment in definition through to optimum procurement, delivery, transition to live service and realisation of business case benefits.
This service can be used at the planning stages of a transformation/cloud migration programme to validate the initial programme definition, delivery approach, plans and business case.
Our assessment is carried out against our reference framework of products and methods, built from deep knowledge and integration of public-domain standards such as COBIT, MSP, TOGAF, PRINCE, and ITIL, combined with real-word experience of their application when implementing cloud-based services and/or transforming the digital and technology operating model.
At the planning stage, the emphasis of our programme health check is on providing confidence that the programme business case is viable. We can also focus on areas of known risk, such as managing parallel procurements and multi-supplier projects, and highlight mitigating activities that can improve the programme achievability. - Planning service works with specific services
- No
Training
- Training service provided
- No
Setup and migration
- Setup or migration service available
- Yes
- How the setup or migration service works
-
This service provides assessment and validation of the overarching programme status, fitness and quality, against our integrated best practice framework, and can be applied at any point in the transformation/cloud migration lifecycle – from strategic alignment at definition through to optimum procurement, delivery, transition to live service and realisation of business case benefits.
This service can be used during the sourcing and delivery stages of a transformation/cloud migration programme to provide senior stakeholders with a summarised view of programme effectiveness.
As part of our standard approach to health checks we will assess the current reporting practices and latest outputs as well as any underlying plans. In addition, we will review the quality and implementation of programme governance arrangements, including functional governance, to determine their overall fitness for purpose in a cloud based, multi-supplier model. In doing this we can provide an end to end, independent assessment across areas such as risk, issues, dependencies, and scope deficiencies which could all negatively impact the programme’s ability to realise the benefits and objectives in its business case. - Setup or migration service is for specific cloud services
- No
Quality assurance and performance testing
- Quality assurance and performance testing service
- Yes
- How the quality assurance and performance testing works
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This service is designed to help clients transform their digital and technology operating model, adopt cloud services, establish system and service integration capabilities, and manage multi-supplier delivery.
A robust test function and test/QA processes are critical success factors for such programmes. Our health check service can include assessment of the test and acceptance strategy planned in for the programme; and identify key areas of risk (such as timely provision of environments, availability of test artefacts, and business engagement with, and acceptance of test phases).
Security testing
- Security services
- Yes
- Security services type
-
- Security strategy
- Security risk management
- Security design
Ongoing support
- Ongoing support service
- No
Service scope
- Service constraints
- None
User support
- Email or online ticketing support
- Email or online ticketing
- Support response times
- We aim to respond to all queries regarding our services within 1 business day.
- User can manage status and priority of support tickets
- No
- Phone support
- Yes
- Phone support availability
- 9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
- Web chat support
- No
- Support levels
- Our support and account management arrangements for all our services includes the following: establishment of clear and agreed reporting lines; pairing our engagement lead with the appropriate client stakeholder; formal and regular reporting of our services provided. All our services are subject to a standard set of internal and customer-facing quality checks. Our directors take an active role in assurance and delivery of our services which ensures that we understand how we are performing against your requirements; and provides an escalation route in case any issues are encountered with our service provision.
Resellers
- Supplier type
- Not a reseller
Staff security
- Staff security clearance
- Other security clearance
- Government security clearance
- Up to Security Clearance (SC)
Standards and certifications
- ISO/IEC 27001 certification
- No
- ISO 28000:2007 certification
- No
- CSA STAR certification
- No
- PCI certification
- No
- Cyber essentials
- No
- Cyber essentials plus
- No
- Other security certifications
- No
Social Value
- Social Value
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Social Value
- Fighting climate change
- Covid-19 recovery
- Tackling economic inequality
- Equal opportunity
- Wellbeing
Fighting climate change
Our services help clients to achieve their transformation/cloud migration programmes more quickly. By adopting cloud services, our clients will typically be enabling energy-hungry and under-utilised legacy systems to be decommissioned, and so reduce the need for associated on-premise cooling systems. The transition to cloud services typically moves computing workloads to more efficient, higher utilised systems, hosted in modern facilities with reduced cooling requirements. Delivery of cloud migration programmes therefore delivers significant overall reduction in energy consumption. Our services help clients to deliver these benefits more quickly and with more certainty.
In addition, subject to client preferences, the majority of our services can be delivered remotely, significantly reducing the need for our team to travel to our client's premises, and the associated carbon footprint.Covid-19 recovery
Our services help clients to achieve their transformation/cloud migration programmes more quickly. In adopting cloud services, and moving applications and data from on-premise legacy systems to cloud-hosted solutions, our clients will typically be enabling these to be 'accessed from anywhere on any device'. By helping our clients to deliver such changes in a more timely and reliable fashion, we are enabling them to better support a wider variety of working styles including flexible working and remote working. These in turn have been shown to provide significant benefits to staff who are responding to the impact of the Covid pandemic on themselves and their teams.
Our own team is fully enabled to work flexibly and remotely, and a number of our consultants work part-time. We have the ability to flex workloads between our consultants as needed to adapt to the different constraints that have arisen during the pandemic. This is coupled with a strong ethos of collaborative working, which helps us support each other and our clients. Through our first-hand experiences of flexible working, we are able to provide real-world advice and guidance to clients who are making changes to their ways of working.Tackling economic inequality
Our services support innovation and adoption of new technologies, improved productivity, and better supply-chain relationships. As an independent consultancy, we have no ties to particular vendors or service providers. This means we are able to assess new service providers, new services and new technologies objectively and provide candid advise on the benefits and risks of their adoption. Furthermore, in bringing our 'supply-side' delivery expertise to our clients, and helping them to more clearly define their programme objectives, requirements, 'to-be' architectures and delivery management processes, we typically help to establish improved communications and relationships throughout the supply-chain.Equal opportunity
Our services help clients to achieve their transformation/cloud migration programmes more quickly. As part of our ethos, we take special care to ensure that end-users are not unfairly disadvantaged by the changes in technology which we help to deliver. As part of this we can provide support and guidance to our clients on ways to manage the impact of the programme upon the workforce, and to take into consideration those with particular needs. This may often include assistance with meeting occupational health requirements, management of technical issues related to maintaining or adding support for specialist end-user IT equipment, assistance and advice regarding individual training/skills enhancement needs, and support for wide scale training needs analysis. In all such matters, our service are provided in full support of the client's diversity and equality policies.Wellbeing
Our services help clients to achieve their transformation/cloud migration programmes more quickly. However, we understand that technology change programmes have a human aspect. An ill-defined, over-ambitious, or poorly-executed change programme can cause significant wellbeing issues, often arising from conflict and stress - both within and between teams. We believe that clear definition of programme objectives, requirements, solutions and delivery plan, coupled with senior stakeholder support, effective governance, and open communications, all help to orientate the project teams and supply-chain towards common and achievable goals. In turn, this fosters collaborative and supportive working relationships; which help the project teams and end-user community through the change lifecycle.
Pricing
- Price
- £350 to £1,650 a unit a day
- Discount for educational organisations
- No
Service documents
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