Who needs another technology consulting company?
It’s time for a technology consulting company to give you tailored actionable advice that you can put to good use instead of regifting stale PowerPoint decks.
The short answer is that any company that is seeking external advice as input to help improve technology capability needs a consulting company that offers tailored actionable advice.
What you typically get from your average technology consulting company are PowerPoint decks filled with copious slides packed with rehashed, inscrutable, inapplicable, material collected over several years. Or we’ve gotten overly simplified advice like – “yeah, convert your 10-year-old monolith with millions of lines of code to microservices and serverless lambdas. Just do it!” No one finds this advice useful other than those that charge you by the hour, or worse, by the slide.
What has been missing is an acknowledgement of what an organization has created, where it can practically go in the short-term and where it can get in the long-term and practical steps outlining how you can go from here to there without magical thinking or boilerplate advice. What has been missing is a realistic view of resource, budget, skill, and technology constraints that play an outsized role in determining the current state and future plans. What is often ignored is market dynamics and cultural factors that often matter even more than the technology stack.
What is missing is partnership. Consulting companies see their value in talking down and not in walking together. We are here to change all of that for you. We are here to treat you as adults. We are here to respect what you have and help you decide what path you want to choose based on your unique combination of constraints. We want to accept and even embrace your constraints. We want to give you advice you can put to good use.
We at Uphill Research believe your organization needs another technology consulting company because something is rotten in the state of technology consulting. We believe there is a place yet for partnership. We want to draw a map that you can walk on. We are here to walk that path with you, even, and specially, if it is uphill, as transformations often are.