Digital and IT strategy is the prioritised sequence of initiatives that aligns your technology with your corporate strategy. REDD's Digital Advisory team delivers it at the table, with governance and management through to done.
Advisory services
The prioritised sequence of initiatives your business will actually execute: skills, capability and infrastructure aligned to corporate strategy, with governance across the lot.
Start with strategy →Board-grade assurance that your IT environment meets performance and risk requirements. Agnostic, evidence-based, and honest enough to say "stay put" when that is the right answer.
Commission an audit →A retained Chief Digital Officer helping your executive use cloud, AI, automation and IoT to create business value, without the seven-figure hire.
Retain a CDO →Which engagement fits
They solve different problems. Most clients start with one and add another later.
| Independent IT audit | CDO as a service | Digital strategy | |
|---|---|---|---|
| The question it answers | Are we in good shape, honestly? | What should we do next, and why? | How do we get from here to there? |
| Who commissions it | Boards and executives | CEOs without a CIO | Executive teams mid-transformation |
| Shape | Point-in-time assessment | Ongoing retained advisor | Project with governance attached |
| You end up with | Evidence-based findings ranked by risk | A seat filled at your exec table | A sequenced, costed roadmap |
| Typical trigger | Due diligence, or doubt about a provider | Growth outpacing technology decisions | A transformation that has stalled |
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How advisory engagements run
Advisory work that ends with a PDF nobody opens is wasted money. This is how REDD keeps it alive.
Stage 1
What decision is this meant to inform? Board assurance, provider doubt and acquisition due diligence need very different work.
Stage 2
Environment, contracts, costs and capability assessed on evidence rather than on what the last provider reported.
Stage 3
Initiatives sequenced by dependency and return, with indicative costs and quick wins placed early.
Stage 4
Progress tracked and reported to the board, including honest reporting on what slipped and why.
Data, analytics and automation
Dashboards, reporting and automation built on your actual data, so decisions stop waiting for the end of the month. Power BI, Power Platform and the governance to trust what the numbers say.
Common questions
Your environment assessed against performance and risk requirements, with findings ranked by business risk and indicative remediation costs. Genuinely independent means we report what we find, including when the right recommendation is to change nothing or keep the provider you were ready to replace.
A retained Chief Digital Officer who attends your executive and board meetings, sets technology direction, and independently assesses vendor proposals. You get executive-level digital leadership without the executive salary, which for most mid-sized Australian businesses is the only way to get it at all.
Most providers are incentivised to recommend more of what they sell. Advisory is deliberately separated from delivery: the advice is technology agnostic, and REDD will tell you when the answer is to spend nothing. Plenty of advisory clients use a different provider for day to day support.
The roadmap itself takes weeks. Results depend on sequencing, and quick wins are deliberately placed early so the program funds its own credibility. What kills strategies is starting twelve initiatives at once, so we sequence hard and report honestly on what slipped.
Yes, and it is usually the part clients value most. Technology risk translated into commercial language the board can actually act on, with ongoing governance rather than a document delivered and then filed.
Get in touch
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