Tech Due Diligence
Understanding your systems to optimise your business
At Elemental Concept, we take the time to understand your business model and goals and gauge how well your current tech systems are fit for purpose.
Evaluating your tech systems
When investing in a company that is about to scale there is a temptation to believe that the systems and products they have that work today are fit for that growth.
In a rapidly changing technology environment, organisations continually face the need to refactor and transform their processes and systems to meet emerging business requirements. This is a huge risk when you are investing in a company.
This transformation demands specific expertise that is not always available from within the organisation. At Elemental Concept, our skill-sets are both deep and broad, with capability spanning from software design and development to product and technology leadership.
We can parachute in various experts as required to analyse all systems and elements of your business so that you can understand how well they perform today as well as identify what’s needed financially and technologically to enable them to scale.
Our due diligence services
To understand if your technology and associated systems and practices are fit for purpose and enable you to scale, we drill down into the following areas:
Infrastructure
Assess the current setup for the following factors:
Security, availability, scalability, performance, maintainability, cost efficiency, regulatory compliance and reliance on 3rd parties.
Architecture
Understand alignment of business & tech choices as regards:
Availability, scalability, performance, testability, maintainability and use of 3rd party solutions and software.
Code
Review current code practices to assess the following factors:
Current code quality, storage solutions, languages, libraries and frameworks used as well as future supportability and scalability.
Processes
Review current processes to understand and assess:
Current processes, value chain, information flow, development/QA processes as well as programme management, incident management and overall adequacy of documentation
Operations
Review current operations to understand and assess:
Core capabilities, organisation structure and any gaps/opportunities within the existing team. We’d also look to understand current tech expenditure and budgets, as well as adherence to regulatory frameworks.
Data, ML and AI
Understand the sources and quality of your data assets:
Current data optimisation, compliance review with data/privacy laws and regulations, current AI processes around deployment and monitoring as well as current database technology, architecture, scalability and auditability.
Technologists as a Service
We recognise that you’re not always going to have the expertise in house to get your change strategy up and running. That’s where our experts come in.
Technical Architects
Avail of proven experience building complex ecosystems and ability to solve high-level strategic issues. Our architects can help define the strategic architecture direction, identify the tech solutions needed and coach teams in the implementation of all tech strategies, ensuring minimum business impact.
Data Architects
Our data architects can help make sense of your data sources to create opportunities for improved service and additional revenue streams. Whether you need to better design, deploy and manage your data architecture or identify innovative use cases for application of ML and AI, our experts are ready to supplement and train your teams to optimise data from the get-go.
UX Strategists
A strong UX lead can help understand your current business drivers, audit current digital assets and prioritise the critical strategic recommendations. We aim to enhance usability across key user touch points, with a solid content strategy and end to end customer experience and help your team to implement all recommendations, with easy handover for in-house designers.
Software Specialists
Avail today of an extensive team of full stack developers, QA engineers and infrastructure specialists who can supplement your existing teams. Our experts can help you refactor or rebuild elements of your systems to support further growth. We can also train your team on the new tech stack as well as provide full platform management services to support & maintain your new systems.
Product Managers/Owners
Have a dedicated manager or product owner to ensure alignment with business requirements, projects and resources. Our experienced PMs and POs, with multiple industry experience delivering bootstrap to enterprise grade projects, can ensure the alignment of all stakeholders to a common business purpose with experienced individuals.
Let’s talk.
Let’s get stuck in. Get in touch with us today – we’ll put you together with one of our experts to start discussing potential strategies for your project.
