We developed our strategies to help businesses transform tech cost into tech investment, replacing reactive spend with budget planned for specific outcomes. One financial services client reports improvements like 'night and day' in terms of budget management, measurable ROI and streamlined compliance, with innovation fired up and unforeseen shocks no longer feared. Working with in-house teams we ensure our strategies are turned into actions that drive real results, even when the middle gets messy.
VAST: A Framework Built to Cover the True Scope of Resilience
VAST is our proven architecture for helping organisations grow stronger and safer, and it's through this framework that we engage to give us a holistic view of your complete tech landscape. Once mapped, we then work together on plans for spend across all departments to achieve specific, measurable business outcomes.
Within VAST we can take a deeper strategic dive into the four key technological areas of your business; cyber resilience, hybrid cloud infrastructure, IT operations and data & AI, using a similar process adapted for each use-case, called SAFE, RISE, PACE and FLOW respectively. Together, this collective of strategies ensure your business is secure, stable, efficient and smart, through planned projects that build on each other to deliver technological and operational resilience.
Here is how we break it down ...
VAST: Scope the landscape – make it visible
Visibility, Accessibility, Stability, Transmutability
We can't measure what we can't see. This 360-degree, 3D view of your business scores the complete business tech landscape across four key areas.
SAFE: Cyber Resilience - make it secure
Strategy, Assessment, Frameworks, Execution
We begin with transparency of your security posture, identifying risks and weak spots so you know exactly where to focus
RISE: Environment– make it stable
Resilience, Integration, Scalability, Efficiency
With the resilience priorities clear, we make environments robust, orderly and predictable.
PACE: Operations - make it work well
Performance, Automation, Continuity, Experience
Once stability is achieved, we instil operational discipline and readiness, building accountability at every level.
FLOW: Data & AI - make it smart
Foundations, Literacy, Operationalisation, Wisdom
Resilient systems allow us to safely drive progress in areas like automation, advanced data, and artificial intelligence.
VAST isn’t just a model. It’s a flexible pathway designed to help businesses navigate the unpredictable shifts they are highly likely to experience across all aspects of the corporate landscape, tested and refined by years in the field.
Beyond the Boardroom: Getting Stuck into the Real Game of Change
It isn’t only our unique strategies that stand us apart in the consultancies space. Many consultancies regard their job as complete once the laptop closes on the final presentation. Our philosophy is different.
Our commitment:
- We don’t just hand over plans - we work alongside your teams, sharing responsibility for outcomes
- We adapt quickly, responding as challenges arise
- We help embed resilience, not just tick boxes
This means real change, not just recommendations. We’re with our clients for the rough patches as well as the wins, which is why our Net Promoter Score (NPS) stays consistently high and clients return to us.
Your Partner from Start to Finish, Including The Messy Middle
Transformation is rarely straightforward. True insight comes from dealing with the difficult stuff, side by side:
- Late-night incident calls
- Legacy systems that didn’t make the slide deck
- Tight deadlines, high stakes, and “back to square one” moments
These are the environments where VAST was forged. And these are the challenges we commit to seeing through, ensuring our clients’ strategies don’t evaporate when reality bites.
Our approach means:
- Accountability carried all the way through to delivery
- Outcomes guaranteed, not just projected
- Clients who see real, lasting change
TurningStrategy into Measurable Wins
ITHQ’s approach is simple: we stay until it works. Make it safe, make it stable, make it run well, then make it smart. But above all, stay for the hard parts; where trust and real value are built.
If you want a partner who’ll roll up their sleeves and see every project through to the end, we’re ready to help.
