Modernize Communications and Collaboration Infrastructure

Reading Time: 3 minutesThis blueprint outlines a comprehensive strategy to transform an organization’s communications and collaboration infrastructure, fostering agility, productivity, and competitive advantage. It emphasizes a phased, user-centric, security-by-design approach, aiming for improved operational efficiency, enhanced employee experience, and measurable ROI.

Cybersecurity Assessment Frameworks

Reading Time: 7 minutesCybersecurity assessment frameworks are structured methodologies guiding organizations to establish and maintain robust cybersecurity postures. They provide a roadmap for identifying, assessing, and managing risks to digital assets, enhancing resilience, streamlining operations, and building trust. Cybersecurity is a core business enabler, requiring agile, adaptive security, strong governance, and leveraging a complementary ecosystem of frameworks to tailor security to unique needs.

Implementation Plan – NIST RMF

Reading Time: 5 minutesThis blueprint guides enterprise-scale implementation of the NIST Risk Management Framework (RMF). It provides a structured, risk-based methodology for managing information security and privacy risks, crucial in today’s threat landscape.

Playbook – The CDO Playbook in the Enterprise

Reading Time: 4 minutesThe Chief Data Officer (CDO) role has shifted from a defensive, risk-focused function to an offensive, value-creating business leader. The 2025 mandate is to align every data initiative with measurable business outcomes.

Implementation Plan – ISO 38500

Reading Time: 3 minutesInformation Technology (IT) has evolved from a support function into a primary driver of business value and competitive advantage. Effective governance is essential to ensure that IT strategy is aligned with business objectives, resources are optimized, and risks are managed.

IT Management & Governance: The Next Evolution

Reading Time: 4 minutesInformation Technology (IT) governance has evolved from a technical control function into a strategic enterprise imperative, driven by digital transformation, complex regulations, and escalating cybersecurity threats. The modern mandate for IT governance is to ensure technology aligns with business strategy, delivers measurable value, optimizes resources, and manages risk effectively.

Adapt to Uncertainty with an IT Resilience Plan

Reading Time: 4 minutesIn an era of unprecedented volatility, IT Resilience is a fundamental requirement for survival, moving beyond reactive Disaster Recovery (DR) and Business Continuity (BC) to a proactive discipline of survivability. This blueprint provides a framework to embed resilience into the core of the digital enterprise, ensuring critical services remain available despite adverse conditions.

Embed Business Relationship Management in IT

Reading Time: 6 minutesBusiness Relationship Management (BRM) is a pivotal discipline bridging the gap between business units and IT, transforming IT from a cost center to a strategic enabler and value co-creator.

Backup Requirements & Methodoligies in the Enterprise

Reading Time: 4 minutesModern data protection has evolved beyond simple recovery from hardware failure into a strategic imperative for business resilience.

Playbook – The CTO Playbook in the Enterprise

Reading Time: 4 minutesStatus: Final Blueprint Author: Shahab Al Yamin Chawdhury  Organization: Principal Architect & Consultant Group Research Date: January 21, 2025 Location: Dhaka, Bangladesh Version: 1.0 Part I: The Strategic Mandate of the Modern CTO The role of the Chief Technology Officer Read More …

Playbook – The CISO Playbook in the Enterprise

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe modern Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) has evolved from a technical manager into a strategic business leader. In an era of enterprise-wide digital transformation, the CISO’s primary mandate is to architect digital trust, enabling secure business growth while managing cyber risk.

Playbook – Designing the Security Playbook in the Enterprise

Reading Time: 4 minutesThis document provides a condensed blueprint for establishing a mature, enterprise-wide security playbook program

Managing Data Integrity Risks in the Enterprise

Reading Time: 4 minutesStatus: Final Blueprint Author: Shahab Al Yamin Chawdhury Organization: Principal Architect & Consultant Group Research Date: February 3, 2022 Location: Dhaka, Bangladesh Version: 1.0 Part I: The Strategic Imperative of Data Integrity 1.0 Defining the Data Integrity Landscape Data integrity Read More …

Playbook – The Applications Playbook in the Enterprise

Reading Time: 5 minutesThis playbook provides a comprehensive, structured framework for managing enterprise applications as strategic business enablers.

Playbook – The Infrastructure and Operations Playbook in the Enterprise

Reading Time: 4 minutesThe role of Infrastructure & Operations (I&O) has transformed from a back-office cost center to a strategic business enabler that powers digital innovation and competitive advantage.

Service Management and IT Operations Strategy

Reading Time: 4 minutesThis document provides a condensed strategic framework for an integrated Service Management and IT Operations function, designed for a Big Four enterprise context.

How to Select a Security Outsourcing Partner

Reading Time: 4 minutesThis document provides a condensed overview of the comprehensive blueprint for selecting, vetting, and managing a security outsourcing partner.

Build a Service-Based Security Resourcing Plan

Reading Time: 3 minutesThis document provides a comprehensive blueprint for transitioning from a traditional, in-house security model to a strategic, agile, and value-aligned service-based paradigm.