TECHNOLOGY
Turn Data, AI and IT ambition into a clear path to business value
Technology investment should help your organisation move forward. But without clear direction, competing priorities, legacy complexity and disconnected decisions can make it difficult to know where to invest.
Data consulting services
Valcon’s data consulting services bring data, AI and IT together around your business ambitions. We help you understand where you are today, define where you need to go and create a practical roadmap that turns investment into measurable business value.
Talk to our Data, AI & Technology advisors
Whatever your challenge, our specialists can help you find a clear way forward. Talk to us about what you want to achieve and how we can help make it happen.
Partner
Lolke Reinstra
INVESTMENT
When investment isn’t translating into business value
Organisations are investing heavily in data, AI and IT, but more investment doesn’t automatically mean better outcomes.
Legacy technology can absorb budget and slow innovation. Business and technology priorities can pull in different directions. And ownership and decision-making can be unclear.
We bring an objective perspective across data, AI and IT, helping leadership teams make informed decisions about what to prioritise, what to change and where investment will have the greatest impact.
Turning ambition into action
Align investment with business priorities
We start with what your organisation is trying to achieve. By connecting business priorities with data, AI and IT investment, we help you identify where technology can create the greatest value and give leadership a clearer basis for making investment decisions.
Define your future direction
We assess your existing landscape and define a clear North Star for applications, data, integration, cloud and AI. This creates a shared direction for investment, helping reduce legacy complexity while giving your organisation the flexibility to adopt new capabilities.
Create the model to deliver it
We define how data and IT work with the wider business, clarifying ownership, decision rights, governance, teams and ways of working. This creates the structure needed to prioritise effectively, accelerate delivery and adopt data and AI responsibly.
Turn strategy into action
We translate the future direction into a prioritised roadmap, connecting investment decisions with practical steps, business cases and measurable outcomes. As transformation progresses, we can continue to provide strategic guidance to help keep delivery aligned with the direction you’ve set.
What success looks like
Our data, AI & IT Advisory service helps you with:
Investment
Create a clear direction for data, AI and IT investment
Alignment
Align technology priorities with business goals
Innovation
Reduce legacy complexity and free investment for innovation
Ownership
Improve ownership, governance and decision-making
Delivery
Accelerate delivery through clearer priorities and ways of working
Scale
Build a scalable foundation for future data and AI adoption
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Case Study
Keeping critical Mendix applications secure, stable and business-ready
Situation A leading provider of fuel distribution services needed reliable ongoing support for its Mendix application landscape after the initial development phase. Once the applications were live, the client needed a consistent way to manage periodic updates, user requests, monitoring and bug fixes. Without active support, issues could disrupt production workflows, slow down users and…
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Using a cloud platform to accelerate AI and data product delivery in construction
Situation A leading European construction and civil engineering company had ambitions to become more data driven and be able to scale the creation of data and AI products. But building the required data infrastructure and platform manually was not a viable option. The scale of the company’s ambition meant they needed a more better way…
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Faster project delivery and stronger forecasting for a leading energy infrastructure provider
Situation A leading provider of Denmark’s electricity and gas transmission was dealing with rapid growth and greater complexity in its external environment. Its technology infrastructure was growing rapidly to deal with these challenges, but its project execution capability was limited and not growing at the same rate. As a result, these pressures were exposing issues…
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Improving delivery control for major railway renewal projects
Situation A leading provider of railway infrastructure management was responsible for complex railway renewal projects. It needed to improve control over the projects that were running late and were over budget, due to problems with project delivery. Teams needed a systematic way to track progress and spend, understand where any work was being blocked and…
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Creating programme visibility during a large-scale banking separation
Situation A leading provider of financial services and customer credit products in the UK retail sector needed to build its own banking capability while migrating customers away from its parent bank within a fixed timeframe. The separation involved multiple stakeholders, third parties and interdependent workstreams, creating the need for greater programme control, stronger governance and…
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Building a product-centric data, analytics and AI operating model in the defence industry
Situation A leading defence organisation’s technology function was not delivering the expected business value. Inconsistent processes, inefficient delivery and embryonic data, analytics and AI maturity were creating complexity and limiting the organisation’s ability to function as effectively as it might. The company needed a product-centric operating model for data, analytics and AI that could reduce…
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Building a scalable data platform for BI, data science and AI use cases in the construction industry
Situation Our client, a leading European construction company, had several classic data warehouses to house its data. But this set up was limiting its ability to share data and scale new use cases across the organisation. To become more data driven, the business needed a platform that could support its existing reporting requirements, while creating…
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Building a clear data roadmap for governance and security in the heating engineering industry
Situation A leading provider of heating and hot water solutions needed a clearer view of how its data could support its business goals and also needed help to make better use of its new data platform. The company lacked a clear vision and strategy for its data. It needed to define how it wanted to…
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Building trusted product data to reduce regulatory risk and improve sales visibility
Situation A leading provider of assistive products and solutions for mobility, patient handling and daily living needed stronger control of its product data as the sector’s regulatory demands increased. Due to fragmented systems and data repositories, the company did not have a clear view of where the relevant data was held across systems and subsidiaries…
WHY VALCON
Why organisations choose Valcon
At Valcon, we combine strategic advisory with deep expertise across data, AI and IT.
We look beyond individual technologies to understand how strategy, architecture, investment, governance and ways of working fit together. And because we combine advisory expertise with delivery capability, the direction we create is grounded in what can be implemented.
The result is a clear path from business ambition to technology decisions – and from those decisions to measurable value.
Ready to turn technology investment into business value?
Whether you’re defining a new strategic direction, tackling legacy complexity or deciding where data and AI can create the greatest impact, we’ll help you make clearer decisions and build a practical path forward.