Our Services for Your Digital Transformation

Strategy & Processes

Setting the strategic direction for tomorrow’s IT, analyzing and optimizing business processes, and preparing requirements so that your organization and IT can respond to them in a targeted way.

Strategy & Processes

Setting the strategic direction for tomorrow’s IT, analyzing and optimizing business processes, and preparing requirements so that your organization and IT can respond to them in a targeted way.

Typical dip roles
  • Enterprise & solution architecture advisor
  • AI / digital transformation advisor
  • Process consultant (BPMN)
  • Business analyst / requirements engineer
  • Product owner support

IT Strategy & Enterprise Architecture

Shaping tomorrow’s IT strategically – from today’s system landscapes to the AI-enabled enterprise.

New business models, regulatory requirements, cloud platforms and artificial intelligence are changing what a company’s IT has to deliver. To keep investments from fizzling out in isolated projects, you need an IT strategy that is consistently derived from your business goals – and an enterprise architecture that translates this strategy into sustainable structures.

We translate your business strategy into an IT strategy and strategic architecture goals: with clear guardrails, IT and architecture principles, governance and priorities. The starting point is a sober assessment of your current application, data and technology landscape and of your capability and technology portfolio. Building on this, we develop a target architecture with you – with options and openly stated trade-offs instead of a supposedly single right answer.

Strategy also means deciding how your IT will work in future. Together we design the IT operating model: organization and responsibilities, required capabilities and skills, sourcing and partners, and the interplay of business units, platform teams, governance and increasingly AI-supported teams.

We assess the opportunities, risks and maturity of new technologies – generative AI, agentic systems, cloud and data platforms, automation – transparently for your context, without unsubstantiated promises. We plan the transition from legacy IT to AI-shaped IT step by step: through transition architectures, modernization options and migration paths, piloting, a roadmap prioritized by value, investment and dependencies, accompanying change management and ongoing value management.

Our services

  • Deriving the IT strategy from business strategy and corporate goals: strategic architecture goals, guardrails and priorities
  • Establishing IT and architecture principles and lean architecture governance (e.g. architecture board, documented architecture decisions)
  • Analyzing the current landscape: assessing applications, data and technologies as well as the capability and technology portfolio by lifecycle, risk and consolidation potential
  • Developing the target architecture and enterprise architecture – with options, trade-offs and decision papers for management
  • Designing the future IT operating model: organization, responsibilities, skills, sourcing and partners, collaboration between business units, platform teams and AI-supported teams
  • Assessing the opportunities, risks and maturity of new technologies (AI, agentic systems, cloud and data platforms, automation) for your company
  • Planning the transition from legacy IT to AI-enabled IT: transition architectures, modernization options, migration paths and piloting
  • Prioritizing the transformation roadmap by value, investment and dependencies – with change support and ongoing value management

Deliverables

  • IT target picture and strategic architecture goals
  • Architecture principles and guardrails
  • Capability map and assessed technology portfolio
  • Decision papers with options and trade-offs
  • Transformation roadmap with transition architectures

Methods & frameworks

  • TOGAF / Enterprise Architecture Management
  • Capability Mapping
  • Technology Roadmapping
  • IT Operating Model
  • Architecture governance

Typical dip roles

  • Enterprise & solution architecture advisor
  • AI / digital transformation advisor
  • Enterprise and cloud architect

Business Process Management

Optimization as the key to success

Business processes are the lifeblood of your company: they flow through every level and have a decisive impact on its vitality and competitiveness. A smooth process flow is essential for the quality of your products and services. At dip, we help you find and maintain the optimal "pulse" of your value chain.

Our services

  • Analysis and assessment of your current business processes
  • Adaptation of existing processes to new business requirements
  • Modeling and documentation of new business processes
  • Definition of specifications for integration into your corporate IT
  • Support during IT implementation and continuous monitoring of the new processes in live operation

Methods & frameworks

  • ITIL
  • CMMI
  • COBIT
  • Other relevant frameworks

Requirements Management

Responding to business requirements with agility and effectiveness

In a rapidly changing business world, systematic and agile requirements management is essential to meet the diverse requirements of the business and other stakeholders. A structured and agile approach enables requirements to be fully captured, reviewed and assessed as part of business analysis, and similar or identical requirements to be consolidated where appropriate.

Our services

  • Systematic and agile requirements management for the requirements of the business and other stakeholders
  • Complete capture, review and assessment of requirements as part of business analysis
  • Consolidation of similar or identical requirements where appropriate
  • Business analysis and product ownership: structuring complex requirements and translating them into processes, data models, business rules, and functional and non-functional specifications

Transformation & Project Management

Supporting technological change and migrations end to end, and steering projects and programs with agile and traditional methods – from the initial analysis to the handover into operations.

Typical dip roles
  • Project and program manager
  • PMO / delivery manager
  • Migration manager

Transformation & Migration Management

Your companion through technological change

In a rapidly evolving IT landscape, it is essential not only to follow technological change but to actively shape it. Today, a constant drive for modernization and greater efficiency is crucial for companies to remain competitive in terms of security, cost control and technology.

Professional management of the transformation and migration of your IT environment is an essential building block. The experienced consultants at dip support you at every step of this complex process, from the initial analysis and project initiation through to implementation and sustainable documentation.

Our services

  • Initial analysis of the company, its technological environment and the regulatory requirements
  • Organization and coordination between the executing teams for a seamless migration process
  • Development and implementation of a tailored migration process aligned with your specific needs
  • Definition of decision criteria in close coordination with management to support your business goals
  • Technical support for the executing teams to make the migration process efficient and successful

Project & Program Management

Agile and traditional methods for your project landscape

Successfully initiating and executing projects is crucial to meeting the dynamic demands of the market, legal frameworks and technological developments. Even more important is bringing your projects to a purposeful and successful close to secure the lasting success of your company!

Our skilled consultants guide you through all project phases, from initiation through planning, execution and monitoring to closure. We align our approach with your specific project situation and needs and, together with you, select the most suitable project management methods and practices.

Our services

  • Analysis of the project environment and alignment on suitable project management methods (traditional and/or agile)
  • Selection and adaptation of project management procedures to the requirements of your project
  • Development of clear project goals and objectives together with stakeholders
  • High-level and detailed planning of the project phases for structured project execution
  • Creation of detailed project plans and roadmaps
  • Project staffing: selection and coordination of project teams
  • Initiation and monitoring of the individual work packages and continuous oversight of their execution
  • Effective communication and coordination across all project areas and with all stakeholders involved
  • Quality management to safeguard project results
  • Project governance, status reporting and risk management for transparent project leadership
  • Acceptance and handover of project results into operations
  • PMO support: consistent standards, status reporting, and risk and dependency management across projects and work packages
  • Program and transformation steering of several initiatives – such as migration, cloud or AI initiatives – along a shared roadmap
  • Steering pilot and implementation teams: risks, quality, schedules and handovers

Methods & frameworks

  • Scrum/Agile
  • PRINCE2
  • IPMA / PMI
  • Project management tools

Cloud, AI & Agentic Delivery

Unlocking the potential of the cloud and using generative AI and agentic workflows with purpose: from platform and architecture to verifiable specifications and an accompanied pilot, with clear human accountability.

Typical dip roles
  • Enterprise and cloud architect
  • AI / digital transformation advisor
  • Solution & agentic architecture advisor
  • Business analyst / requirements engineer

Cloud Enablement

Unlock the full potential of the cloud for your company

In the dynamic landscape of digital transformation, cloud enablement plays a central role. The efficient use of cloud technologies can significantly improve the agility and performance of your IT systems. However, a carefully planned and executed migration is essential to minimize risks and maintain control over your data.

Our services

  • Efficient use of cloud technologies to improve the agility and performance of your IT systems
  • Carefully planned and executed migration to the cloud
  • Minimizing risks and maintaining control over your data
  • Workload assessment: determining the right migration path for each application
  • Target operating model and landing zone as the foundation for security, operations and cost control (FinOps)
  • Planning migration waves, cutover with rollback criteria, hypercare and handover into operations

AI Enablement & Agentic Architecture

Using generative AI with purpose, securely and economically

Generative AI and agentic workflows are changing how companies use knowledge, steer processes and develop solutions. What matters is not the technology alone, but a target picture that fits your processes, data and systems, with clear responsibilities, control points and traceable benefits.

We advise you from prioritizing suitable use cases and designing agentic workflows to governance and economic viability, at the interface between business, architecture and IT operations.

Our starting point is project experience in enterprise architecture, cloud platforms and integration, for example in selecting and introducing platform services for data, AI and enterprise integration, and in designing a cloud-based platform with AI components.

Our services

  • AI readiness: jointly assessing processes, the data and system landscape, prerequisites and risks
  • Identifying use cases and prioritizing them by benefit, effort and risk, including a business case
  • Target picture and architecture for agentic workflows: orchestration, tools, interfaces and permissions
  • System and data integration into existing applications, platforms and IT operations processes
  • Planning control and approval steps (human in the loop), monitoring and quality criteria from the outset
  • Security, data protection, governance and economic viability as integral parts of the target picture
  • Architecture and governance reviews of ongoing AI initiatives

AI-enabled & Agentic Delivery

From requirement to pilot, with transparent human accountability

AI-assisted ways of working accelerate analysis, design, prototyping, documentation and testing, provided that goals, specifications and quality criteria are clear and people are accountable for the results.

We advise and support your delivery teams from requirements engineering, solution design and pilot definition to iterative implementation, evaluation, rollout and handover.

AI assists, people decide: results are reviewed from a business perspective, approvals are documented and responsibilities remain clear. We take on roles on the client side, from specification and steering to quality assurance.

Our services

  • Requirements engineering and solution design as a robust basis for prototypes and pilots
  • Pilot and prototype definition with scope, success and acceptance criteria
  • Coordinating client and implementation teams during iterative implementation
  • Introducing AI-assisted ways of working in analysis, design, documentation and testing
  • Evaluation and test concepts for AI-assisted results and agents
  • Quality assurance, risk management and documented human approvals
  • Rollout, knowledge transfer and handover to operations

Behavior-Driven Development & Spec-Driven Development

Verifiable specifications as a shared foundation

Many initiatives fail not because of technology but because of unclear requirements. With Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) and Spec-Driven Development (SDD), business expectations become verifiable specifications, a shared basis for design, implementation, testing and acceptance.

We introduce these methods with your business, IT and delivery teams and apply them in your initiatives, including where AI-assisted tools turn specifications into code and tests.

BDD and SDD are methods, not a product promise: we make sure requirements are described precisely enough to be reliably implemented, tested and accepted, regardless of who develops the software.

Our services

  • Behavior-Driven Development: describing the desired behavior as example scenarios together with business, development and testing
  • Spec-Driven Development: specifications as the binding basis for solution design, implementation and acceptance
  • Deriving acceptance criteria and test cases from the scenarios, as the basis for automated tests
  • Traceability from the requirement through the specification to the test result
  • Alignment between business, IT, delivery and quality assurance
  • Enabling your teams to adopt these ways of working

Methods & frameworks

  • Behavior-Driven Development (BDD)
  • Spec-Driven Development (SDD)

Related services

How we support AI initiatives, in five phases

  1. Orientation & AI readiness

    Jointly analyzing business processes, the data and system landscape, use cases, benefits, risks and prerequisites.

    Outcome Prioritized use cases and business case

  2. Solution & agentic architecture

    Designing the target architecture, decision and approval points, interfaces and tools, permissions, orchestration, and security and quality criteria.

    Outcome Architecture and integration concept

  3. Requirements & specification

    Working out business requirements, domain rules, data flows and user journeys with you as verifiable specifications and BDD scenarios.

    Outcome Specifications, BDD scenarios, acceptance criteria

  4. Pilot & delivery support

    Coordinating client and implementation teams, supporting AI-assisted ways of working, evaluating results from a business perspective and steering risks transparently.

    Outcome Pilot acceptance criteria and evaluation results

  5. Rollout & enablement

    Establishing roles, working methods, quality assurance, ongoing evaluation of agents and governance with your teams, and handing over knowledge.

    Outcome Governance and enablement plan

Roles we take on for you

Depending on the engagement, we take on individual or combined roles on the client side and at the interface between business, architecture and delivery. We agree on the right role with you based on the project and consultant profiles.

AI / Digital Transformation Advisor
Use case and strategy advisory, prioritization, preparing management decisions
Enterprise, Solution & Agentic Architecture Advisor
Technical target picture, integration design, architecture and governance reviews
Business Analyst / Requirements Engineer
Requirements, BDD scenarios, SDD specifications, acceptance criteria, business quality assurance
Product Owner / Product Management Support
Scope, backlog, stakeholder alignment, business priorities
Project / Delivery Manager, PMO
Steering pilot and implementation teams, risks, quality, schedules and handovers
AI Delivery Enablement, QA & Governance Support
Introducing AI-assisted methods, evaluation and test concepts, human approvals, documentation

The outcome per phase describes what we develop together with you in an engagement, not results already achieved for clients.

IT Service Management, Security & Compliance

Organizing IT services in a standardized and efficient way, and strengthening the security and reliability of your IT systems with suitable security, compliance and governance concepts.

Typical dip roles
  • ITSM/ITIL expert
  • IT security consultant
  • Compliance and governance consultant

IT Service Management

A standardized and efficient IT organization

With requirements constantly changing, the seamless integration of business processes and technologies is essential. An efficient IT infrastructure is built on well-designed, proven processes that precisely reflect the needs of your company. Clearly defined IT services let you maximize the value for your business without losing sight of cost control.

Our experienced consultants support you from identifying business-critical processes and clarifying and assigning responsibilities for the individual service elements through to implementing and optimizing your IT organization.

Our services

  • Capturing the business-critical processes and workflows in your company
  • Definition of role and responsibility descriptions for clear assignment and control
  • Business process management for precise representation and optimization of your business processes
  • Joint development of an IT organization (process/system frameworks) based on proven best practices
  • Optimizing and raising quality standards, in particular through workflow automation
  • Evaluation of suitable standard software solutions to effectively support your requirements
  • Introduction and training across the entire field of IT service management to ensure smooth operations

Methods & frameworks

  • Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
  • Maturity models, in particular CMMI
  • Business Process Management
  • Lean Management
  • Six Sigma
  • Total Quality Management
  • COBIT

IT Security

Strengthening the security and reliability of your IT systems

Keeping data secure is a key factor for every company: the loss of information through a cyberattack can damage its reputation, cause financial loss, weaken its competitive position and have legal consequences.

Our experienced consultants support you in ensuring the security of your IT systems – with a suitable security concept, effective technical, organizational and personnel measures, and established processes for vulnerability and patch management.

Our services

  • Identification of security-relevant regulations, with systematic derivation and documentation of the resulting security requirements for your data and IT systems
  • Assessment of the risks that could arise from insufficient or inadequate security practices, and development of strategies to minimize them
  • Design of processes and robust control mechanisms to ensure data security
  • Design and implementation of technical, organizational and personnel measures to strengthen IT security in your company
  • Development and implementation of an individually tailored IT security concept covering access rights and security protocols, to ensure a sustainable security structure
  • Vulnerability and patch management: policies as the baseline, identification and prioritization of IT assets by criticality, and processes to identify, assess and mitigate vulnerabilities – including in connection with cloud computing
  • Support in setting up and further developing information security management (ISMS) oriented towards ISO/IEC 27001

Compliance & Governance

Acting compliantly, minimizing risks

In today's regulated business world, compliance plays a decisive role. With regulation steadily increasing across industries and markets, effectively managing and keeping up to date with laws, regulations, contracts and standards is essential to prevent violations.

Our experienced consultants support you in developing robust IT compliance management – in interplay with IT security and IT service management. The goal is to reduce costs by automating manual workflows and to sustainably increase the value of your company.

Our services

  • Identification of compliance-relevant regulations, with systematic derivation and detailed documentation of the resulting requirements for your data and IT systems
  • Comprehensive assessment of the risks that could arise from insufficient or inadequate IT compliance, and development of strategies to minimize them
  • Design of efficient processes and robust control mechanisms to ensure data compliance, increasing transparency and control
  • Design and implementation of technical, organizational and personnel measures to strengthen IT compliance in your company
  • Development and implementation of an individually tailored IT compliance concept covering the handling of electronic data and archiving strategies, to ensure a sustainable compliance structure
  • Governance with controls and clear responsibilities (RACI) that combine the service catalog and IT practices into a manageable operating model

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