PDS Consulting / Digital Transformation Advisory
Digital Transformation Advisory
Most consultants architect one layer — ERP, or CRM, or integration. PDS architects the whole ecosystem. We turn fragmented systems and stalled programs into a sequenced transformation plan your leadership can fund and your teams can deliver.
At a glance
- Two tracks
- By company revenue — Foundations (~$10–100M) · Program Leadership (~$100–200M)
- Engage
- 7 ways — from a 2-week Strategy Sprint to an embedded program lead
- Signature
- Fractional Enterprise Architect — senior oversight without a full-time hire
- Pricing
- Quote, on scope — not on firm size
When this is the right call.
Usually something has forced the question:
- You've outgrown your systems, but every vendor demo sounds the same.
- The last "system decision" turned into a mess — and you can't afford another.
- Different departments are buying their own tools and nothing talks to each other.
- A program is well underway and sliding — nobody owns it end to end.
- Multiple vendors are involved and there's no single architectural owner.
Two tracks. The plan, or the leadership to run it.
Smaller companies buy direction; larger ones buy the leadership to deliver it. Same capability, different shape and price point.
Track A · Foundations
~$10–100M revenue · no internal CIO/EA
A focused engagement that answers "where do we start?" — a prioritized list of moves, sized to your budget and team capacity, with a defensible business case and a few quick wins front-loaded.
Track B · Program Leadership
~$100–200M revenue · multi-system program
A multi-month engagement that runs or co-runs ERP, CRM, or integration programs from strategy through delivery — embedded leadership, not slideware. Includes the Fractional Enterprise Architect model.
How we run it — five phases.
01 · Discovery
Leadership interviews, a systems inventory, and a pain-point map — plus a post-mortem of any prior attempt.
02 · Vision & target state
An executive workshop to define the 18-month outcomes, target state, and the KPIs that prove it's working.
03 · Roadmap & priorities
A sequenced roadmap with effort, cost, and dependencies — quick wins front-loaded, the business case attached.
04 · Architecture blueprint
The target architecture across ERP, CRM, integration, data, and reporting — current vs. target, made concrete.
05 · Execution support
For Track B: embedded leadership through delivery — Fractional EA, Embedded Program Lead, or Augmented Leadership.
One owner across vendors. The value isn't the deck — it's a single architect accountable for how every layer fits together, from strategy through go-live.
What you're aiming at.
- A prioritized 12–18 month roadmap with effort, cost, and dependencies per initiative.
- A defensible business case, sized to your budget, with 2–4 quick wins front-loaded.
- Leadership aligned on the sequence — and the "why."
- A clear next decision: what to scope first, what to defer, what to kill.
- For programs: stalled work back on track, governed, on one architecture.
What you get.
- Current-state assessment & pain-point map
- Target-state vision & KPI map
- Prioritized 18-month roadmap with initiative cards
- Business case & investment summary
- Leadership readout — and, on Track B, a program plan + governance model
Outcomes are what these engagements are built to deliver, grounded in 15+ years of in-house enterprise-architecture work. As PDS engagements close, this section gets measured numbers.
Seven ways to engage.
Buy one, or sequence them — Strategy Sprint → Foundations Roadmap → Fractional EA is a common path. Quote-only, scoped to the work.
Strategy Sprint
2 weeks · Rapid current-state read and a prioritized next move. Lowest-friction entry.
Foundations Roadmap
3–4 weeks · Full Track A: assessment, target state, 18-month roadmap, business case.
Strategy Phase
8–12 weeks · Full Track B strategy: target-state architecture, program plan, governance.
Fractional Enterprise Architect
Ongoing · Senior architectural oversight across vendors — without a full-time hire.
Embedded Program Lead
6–18 months · PDS leads the program end to end — architecture, delivery oversight, exec comms.
Augmented Leadership
Multi-month · Senior leadership added inside your existing team — partner, not replacement.
Advisory Retainer
Ongoing · Continuous strategic support after a defined engagement — set cadence, set access.
Why bring PDS in for this.
Whole-ecosystem architecture, not one layer
Most consultants own one platform. A company running ERP + CRM + integration + reporting needs one person accountable for the architecture across all of it. That's the offer.
Embedded, not advising from outside
15+ years as the internal enterprise architect on multi-year programs — not a former strategy-deck consultant, not a single-platform specialist.
Strategy that gets delivered
Big-firm advisory writes the slides. PDS writes the roadmap and stays to deliver it. If you're seeing decks and no movement, the gap is execution-side architecture.
Right-sized between freelancer and Big 4
Too big for a freelancer to be safe, too small for Big 4 to be affordable. The Fractional Enterprise Architect model is built for exactly that gap.
Often the upstream entry to the catalog — the roadmap names what comes next: ERP, CRM, Systems Integration, and more.
No pitch, no pressure
Not sure where to start?
That's exactly what the first call is for. Bring your current state — what's connected, what's stalled, where the friction is — and we'll tell you straight what the right first move looks like.
Book a call →Or email directly: info@prendergastdigital.com