Disaggregation

Moving you from a single-source contract to a multivendor service, owned by you

Methods has extensive practical experience in supporting public sector customers to leave single-source, legacy contracts and move to multivendor services, shaped by our experts.

We use our knowledge and experience to ensure your existing services remain uninterrupted while we work with you to shape a range of areas. These include contractual and commercial requirements, technology, planning, operating models, organisational design, business change, and exit and transition management.

Exiting legacy contracts and transitioning into a multi-supplier operating model is complex. Although many public sector organisations have started many have still to tackle hard questions on the ‘what?’ and the ‘how?

How can we help?

Methods offers industry-leading planning and expert advice for contract exit and transition, underpinned by industry best practice. Our experts know how to bring together all aspects of major change programmes (style, business and technology), while aligning with ‘HM Government Shared Learning, Exiting Major IT Contracts: Guidance for Departments’. 

We use a structured framework of services, built on our experience and designed to guide our public sector customers through the end-to-end process effortlessly, including managing risks, and ensuring compliance with policies and standards. 

To support our customers and offer the maximum possible value, we offer the framework in its entirety, or on a stage-by-stage, component-by-component basis. 

Finally, we believe it’s important to match the skills, styles and approaches of our teams and people with the customers they’re supporting. This encourages collaboration and ensures knowledge transfer throughout every project. 

We achieve this through a 4-step process: 

Transition discovery

Objectives:

  • Identify service and ICT elements of ‘as-is’ solution and organisation capabilities
  • Define the gap between the current (as-is) and target (to-be) state architectures
  • Agree benefits to achieve from a proposed disaggregation service model

Deliverables:

  • Service and infrastructure disaggregation (SAID) risk profile reports
  • IT landscape capability and maturity assessment
  • Set of scenarios mapped to risk profiles to inform solution designs
  • Risk management plan
  • Benefits realisation plan

Transition solutions

Objectives:

  • Design the lowest risk transition solution
  • Align solutions to business TOM and goals
  • Define service groupings, map to business processes
  • Prepare and conduct a successful procurement/s
  • Plan and communicate the change

Deliverables:

  • Disaggregation and transition solutions
  • Service strategy and organisation design
  • High-level transition plans and delivery road maps
  • Detailed service specific transition planning
  • Procurement and tender strategy
  • Delivery Requirements for inclusion in tender documents
  • Change Management, communication and engagement plans
  • Cross-supplier response gap analysis

Pre-transition

Objectives:

  • Structured management and delivery of change (e.g. to manage staff affected)
  • Develop retained ICT and service management organisation
  • Define ITSM and other toolsets
  • Identify which assets, data and knowledge need transferring to new suppliers

Deliverables:

  • Transition and interim operating models
  • Legacy suppler exit plan
  • Business continuity plan
  • Organisational design
  • TUPE plan
  • Knowledge management and transfer plan

Transition

Objectives:

  • Successful transition to interim and future states
  • Smooth on-boarding of service and service introduction for new solutions
  • Controlled exit for legacy suppliers and contracts
  • Services operate to expected quality
  • Business and transformation objectives achieved

Deliverables:

  • End-to-end master plan
  • Dependency management plan
  • Asset transition plan
  • Supplier solution gap analysis
  • Compliance assessment
  • Implementation and cut-over plans
  • Business readiness assessments

Don’t be dazzled by where you’re going, focus on how you’re going to get there

Disaggregation Guide

 

In this guide ‘Disaggregation’, we examine the reality behind the ‘El Dorado’ vision often painted by consulting houses. Highlighting the pitfalls, we offer solid recommendations to ensure more focus on business as usual and bringing your users with you.

Our expertise within disaggregation

  • Define the ‘as is’ and ‘to be’ organisational model
  • TUPE and workforce planning
  • Contract exit and transition
  • Risk management profile
  • Benefits identification and realisation
  • Solution design
  • Maturity assessment
  • Skills and knowledge transfer
  • Risk management plan
Disaggregation Diagram

Take back control

"Methods brought a wealth of knowledge, experience and ideas to the table. Their assistance was invaluable, their honesty and integrity welcomed, and their agility was both critical and collaborative. I am very grateful to Methods for assisting us to achieve a challenging time frame to take back control of the IT estate."

Simon Liste

CTO

Methods' team put us first

"It was clear to us that Methods had the knowledge and expertise that stood head and shoulders above the competition. The delivery has been very professional, and importantly the business felt that the Methods team put us first, and we could trust them. The consultants brought a wealth of knowledge and experience, giving the business the confidence to break away from the normal collaboration approach and set up a delivery model that met the business needs without compromise."

Paul Bell

IT Manager

‘Forget El Dorado, go seek Nirvana’

Disaggregation Guide on a laptop and mobile

 

This article discusses the challenge of dismantling complex outsourcing agreements with System Integrators and the obstacles that must be navigated.

Some of our previous work

Managing the mix of legacy and new IT services in ways that are sustainable and cost-effective

Transforming the existing organisation by putting in place the right shape and structure, building on existing, and delivering new capabilities

Supporting the transition and exit of legacy IT systems

Methods wide-ranging expertise added structure, control and agility to a navigate a difficult journey to a smooth and successful transition

Disaggregation – moving from a complex shared contract to a dedicated solution

LLWR were looking for a partner who could provide the consultancy and analysis to build and assist with the disaggregation