CO-ASTRA
Cost Optimisation and Strategic Technology Realignment. The system every engagement runs on.
Capability-based costing fails in a spreadsheet. The model is built once, for a programme, and is out of date by the next budget cycle. CO-ASTRA is our answer: the capability cost model as a system, kept current, with the decisions made in it rather than beside it.
What it holds
- Every application, with its owner, its vendor, its contracts and what it costs to run and to change.
- The business capability model: BIAN for banks, the organisation's own functions for everyone else.
- The mapping between the two, so cost rolls up from invoice to capability.
- Projects, mapped to the capabilities they change, so new spend is seen beside existing spend.
- The disposition of every application under T.I.M.E.4 Simplicity, and the savings as they are booked.
What it shows
- What each capability costs, how many systems serve it, and how that compares.
- Regrettable spend: duplication, outdated technology and investment that serves no capability the strategy values.
- Renewals coming up, with the forecast and the buffer, so no contract renews on arrival.
- Where a project proposes to build what the organisation already owns.
- Savings by business unit, so every leader can see their own line and everyone else's.
How it's used
We bring CO-ASTRA to every engagement and load your data into it in the first weeks. The audit, the elimination challenge, the budget and the quarterly reviews all run in it. Technology should be co-starring in your success story, and CO-ASTRA is how we keep it in the picture after the engagement ends.
CO-ASTRA is built by technologyDo, Seamus Birch's software company.