Digital Health Checks

Digital health check services to optimise your landscape

Digital Health Checks

Know where you stand. Build with confidence.

How we help

A clear view of your digital landscape

Uncertainty about your IT environment slows critical business transformation, increases cost, and introduces unnecessary risk.

Our digital health check uses BBD’s FOCUS framework to provide a detailed, multi-dimensional assessment of your systems, strategy, and architecture so you can make informed decisions about modernisation, optimisation, and investment. Whether you’re navigating legacy challenges, planning cloud adoption, or strengthening operations, you’ll gain the clarity and confidence to move forward at pace.

Why it works

Powered by FOCUS

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Clarity through perspective

Our FOCUS methodology evaluates your digital landscape across enterprise, solution and technology perspectives – aligning your IT strategy with real business outcomes.

Strategy you can act on

We don’t just identify gaps and risks, we help you prioritise and plan, creating a strong foundation for scalable, future-fit transformation.

Confidence to move forward

With our structured, proven approach, you gain the insight needed to make smarter decisions, mitigate risk, and drive long-term value across your ecosystem.

How it's done

What we assess: 12 lenses to surface what matters

Assessing the 12 core pillars of your technical landscape

Alignment, clarity, and cohesion between business and tech.

Team structures, skills readiness, and talent scalability.

Process optimisation, continuity, and traceability.

Performance, maintainability, scalability, and reliability.

SDLC, change control, observability, and site reliability.

UX, CX, UI, and user-centred design maturity.

Data architecture, flow, governance and integrity.

System architecture, code quality, modularity, automation.

Resilience, scalability, cloud readiness, and cost-effectiveness.

Embedded controls, threat mitigation and policy alignment.

Compliance, policy frameworks and oversight.

Vendor alignment, integration, and accountability.

Benefits

The value of a FOCUS-led diagnostic

Operational resilience

Surface hidden risks, outdated practices, and performance bottlenecks before they impact stability.

Strategic clarity

Align business, solution and technical roadmaps to deliver smarter, more sustainable transformation.

Reduced technical debt

Identify inefficiencies and legacy overhead, prioritising improvements where they’ll have the most impact.

Informed decision-making

Get a data-backed view of your current state—clearly mapped to opportunities and constraints.

Faster time to value

Eliminate guesswork and cut through complexity with a clear, actionable diagnostic roadmap.

See it in action

Turn vision into value

Case Studies

Building an innovative multimedia educational app

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Case Studies

Lower cost through digital transformation using accelerators

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Case Studies

Compliant customer experience with content management system

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Related Expertise

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Consulting services

Understanding your business requirements and future goals, we work with you to craft a differentiating strategy that leverages appropriate modern technologies.

GET IN TOUCH

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Lucky Nkosi

Head of Digital Health Checks

Whether you’re aligning business and tech or untangling legacy challenges, we’ll help you understand your landscape clearly and chart the path forward.

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