Future StateAdvisors

Signals & Strategy

What we are seeing across the companies we work with, and what we would do about it.

Private Equity

Twelve Months After Diligence, the IT Findings Are Still a Slide

Technology diligence produces a list of risks. Converting that list into a funded, sequenced plan with owners is a different job, and it is the one that usually goes unassigned.

Financial Services

Your Real Threat Model Is a Convincing Email About a Wire

Financial firms spend on perimeter security and lose money to a plausible message and a rushed approval. The controls that stop it are procedural, cheap, and usually missing.

Healthcare

When the EHR Vendor Sets Your Technology Roadmap

For most clinics and specialty groups the clinical system dictates what is possible, what it costs, and when it changes. Nobody on the practice side is checking whether the answer given was the right one.

Professional Services

The Margin Hiding in Your Software Stack

Professional services firms accumulate tools the way they accumulate matters: one urgent need at a time. The cost is rarely the licences. It is the adoption.

Manufacturing

Before You Replace the ERP, Find Out Whether It Is the Problem

Every vendor in the room has a replacement to sell. Here is how to work out whether your ERP is genuinely at end of life, or whether you are about to spend seven figures reproducing the same frustration.

Advisory & Value

What a Technology Assessment Should Actually Tell You

Free IT audits reliably discover you need what the auditor sells. Here's what an honest assessment looks like, and the questions it must answer.

Advisory & Value

Five Signs Your Company Has Outgrown Its IT Provider

Your MSP isn't bad; your needs changed. Here's how to tell the difference, and what to do about it without torching the relationship.

Advisory & Value

The Space Between Reactive IT and a Full-Time CIO

Most growing companies have outgrown their IT provider but can't justify a $250k executive. That gap has a name, a cost, and a fix.