Strategic Advisory

What problem can you solve for me?

A decision is in front of you, and it needs independent challenge before money commits.

• A commitment on AI, payments, an operating model or a technology platform, with real money or regulatory exposure behind it.
• Advice that leans towards one vendor's product, whatever the question.
• A board or a regulator asking how the decision was reached.
• A transformation that has slowed, and nobody agrees why.

What will I receive?

A decision you can defend: what was decided, on what evidence, and what was ruled out.

• A written position on the decision, with the options considered and the evidence behind the recommendation.
• Material your board can read and question.
• One named adviser, not a team to manage.

Why should I believe DTA can deliver it?

Advice is given to one executive on one decision, so there is no working example to run here. What you can check is who advises you, and what DTA has published.

What you can check

• About DTA
  Who advises you, and the experience behind the advice.
• The Future Banking Observatory
  Published models of where banking is going.
• Field Notes
  Notes from the work.

How the work runs

• Brings independent, vendor-neutral judgement to the decision in front of you.
• Takes one strategic question and tests it: the options, the evidence for each, and what would change the answer.
• Challenges the plan you already have, before capital commits.
• Stays beside the executive who owns the decision for as long as it is live.

How an engagement starts

The 90-Day Assessment

One executive. One problem. Ninety days. A defined deliverable at the end.

A focused assessment

A single strategic question, answered in weeks.

Ongoing executive support

An adviser on call while a decision or a programme is live.

Discuss an advisory engagement