Business & Technology Strategy
Turn business ambition into a practical technology agenda.
Connect strategy, capability, architecture, operating model and investment around what the organisation is trying to achieve.
An AI and technology strategy consultancy, powered by proprietary intelligence platforms.
We help leaders make better decisions across AI, technology, risk, investment and transformation — and turn those decisions into practical, measurable change.
Experience Across Leading Organisations
Begin With the Difference You Want to Make
Most organisations do not begin with a technology problem.
They begin with something they need to change.
- Perhaps AI experimentation needs to become an enterprise capability.
- Perhaps a transformation programme is not progressing as expected.
- Perhaps technology spend needs to fall without weakening the organisation.
- Perhaps leadership cannot agree which investments matter most.
- Perhaps cyber, resilience or sovereignty concerns are creating difficult strategic choices.
We start with the difference the organisation is trying to make.
Then we work backwards into the:
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Strategy
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Capabilities
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Operating model
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Architecture
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Investment
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Technology
needed to make it real.
Start With the Problem. Not the Service.
You do not need to know which Xirocco service you need before speaking to us.
Our service areas represent common, high-value places to start.
They are not the limits of what we can help solve.
AI Strategy, Architecture Blueprinting & Operating Model
Move AI from experimentation to enterprise capability.
Establish the strategy, architecture, readiness, governance and operating model required to scale AI responsibly.
Enterprise Diagnostic & Transformation Readiness
Know whether your organisation is genuinely ready to change.
Understand where applications, data, cybersecurity, infrastructure, suppliers and organisational capability may enable—or constrain—the future state.
Cybersecurity & IT/OT Resilience
Understand cyber exposure across the connected enterprise.
Connect technical weaknesses to the business capabilities, operational assets, suppliers and strategic outcomes they may affect.
Technology Portfolio Investment & Prioritisation
Invest in the capabilities that matter most.
Understand the consequences of funding, deferring, reshaping or rejecting competing technology investments.
Digital Sovereignty
Understand where strategic control really sits.
Assess sovereignty across suppliers, software, cloud, infrastructure, jurisdiction and hidden technology dependencies.
IT Cost Optimisation
Identify savings without weakening what the organisation needs.
Surface unnecessary cost, duplication and misaligned investment while keeping business capability, resilience and future strategy visible.
One Enterprise Context. Many Questions.
Xirocco is not a collection of separate consulting practices.
The same organisation may be dealing simultaneously with:
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AI
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Cost
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Transformation
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Risk
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Investment
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Suppliers
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Architecture
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Operational Technologies
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Resilience
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Strategic change
And those issues are often connected. An AI question may reveal a data or infrastructure weakness. A cost exercise may expose applications that no longer support strategy. A transformation problem may trace back to legacy architecture. A cyber exposure may require a different investment decision. A sovereignty question may reveal a supplier or procurement dependency.
Xirocco connects the relevant enterprise context so the problem can be followed wherever the evidence leads.
One enterprise context. Many questions.
Three Forms of Knowledge. One More Complete Picture.
Important enterprise decisions cannot be made from formal data alone.
Xirocco brings together three forms of knowledge.
Enterprise Data
The information the organisation already holds, including:
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Business objectives
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Applications
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Suppliers
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Projects
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Risks
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Technology assets
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Architecture
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Investment
Expert Opinion
Structured assessment and judgement from:
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Xirocco advisers
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Internal specialists
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Subject-matter experts
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Approved partners
Tacit & Institutional Knowledge
The context held in people's heads about:
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How things actually work
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Why decisions were made
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Workarounds
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Historical constraints
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Culture
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Politics
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Undocumented dependencies
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Why previous change succeeded or failed
Bringing these forms of knowledge together creates a richer view of organisational reality.
That gives both human experts and Maeros AI better context for analysis.
Xirocco
Create the connected strategic foundation.
Xirocco brings together the enterprise information and relationships needed to understand complex business and technology questions.
It can connect context across:
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Business strategy
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Capabilities
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Applications
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Data
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Infrastructure
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Cybersecurity
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Operational technology
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Suppliers
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Architecture
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Projects
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Risk
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Investment
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Operating model
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Transformation activity
The value is not simply having the information in one place.
The value lies in understanding how it is connected.
Which application supports which capability?
Which supplier underpins a critical service?
Which investment addresses a strategic weakness?
Which programme depends on a fragile technology foundation?
Which cost saving would affect a business priority?
Xirocco turns fragmented enterprise information into a strategic context leaders can use.
Maeros AI
Connecting what matters. Guiding what's next.
Maeros AI provides an intelligence layer over the connected enterprise context held in Xirocco.
Leaders can ask questions in natural language across areas such as:
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Strategy
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Risk
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Investment
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Readiness
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Cost
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Applications
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Suppliers
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Transformation
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Resilience
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Strategic opportunity
For example:
“Where can we reduce technology cost without weakening critical capability?”
“What is preventing us from scaling AI?”
“Which investments should we protect if the budget is reduced?”
“Why is this transformation programme struggling?”
“Where are our greatest supplier dependencies?”
“Which technology weaknesses create the greatest threat to our strategy?”
Maeros is not restricted to the service areas described on this website.
Where the relevant context exists—or can be added—it can help investigate the question that matters next.
Xirocco Creates the Context. Maeros Interrogates It.
The relationship between the two platforms is simple.
Xirocco
Creates and maintains the connected enterprise foundation.
Maeros AI
Helps interrogate that foundation and surface:
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Relationships
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Observations
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Implications
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Priorities
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Potential root causes
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Suggested next actions
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Insights
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Benchmarks
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In-depth analysis
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Board-ready reporting
Together, they allow organisations to move from:
Fragmented information → connected context → connected intelligence → clearer action
Expert-Led. Platform-Enabled.
Technology does not replace judgement.
Experienced people remain central to:
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Interpreting evidence
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Challenging assumptions
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Assessing maturity
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Validating relationships
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Understanding organisational context
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Making accountable recommendations
Xirocco and Maeros AI strengthen that work by helping advisers and client teams understand complexity more systematically.
The model combines:
Enterprise evidence + expert judgement + institutional knowledge + AI-assisted analysis
The result is a stronger basis for decisions that carry real consequence.
Start Focused
You do not need to model the entire enterprise before creating value.
The strongest starting point is often one important problem. One executive question. One high-value decision.
For example:
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Are we ready to scale AI?
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Where can we reduce technology cost?
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Why is transformation struggling?
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Which investments matter most?
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Where is our structural cyber exposure?
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What are our critical IT/OT dependencies?
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What is our digital-sovereignty position?
We establish the minimum connected context required to understand that issue well. Then we build from what is learned.
Start focused. Demonstrate value. Expand where useful.
Solve Today's Problem. Preserve What You Learn.
Traditional consulting engagements can produce excellent answers.
But much of the knowledge created through the work may eventually become trapped in:
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Presentations
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Spreadsheets
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Reports
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Workshop notes
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Individual memory
When the next problem appears, discovery begins again.
Xirocco provides a different model. The strategic context created through an engagement can remain available.
That means:
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A diagnostic can later inform investment decisions
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An AI engagement can expose infrastructure priorities
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A cost exercise can support application rationalisation
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A supplier assessment can inform resilience
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A transformation programme can reuse earlier strategy and dependency information
Solve today's problem. Preserve what you learn. Use it to solve tomorrow's problem faster.
From Static Strategy to Continuous Strategy
Strategy does not stop changing when the presentation is finished. Business priorities change. Technology changes. Projects progress. Suppliers change. Risks emerge. Investment decisions move. New questions appear.
Xirocco allows the enterprise context behind the strategy to evolve as those conditions change.
Leadership can revisit:
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Alignment
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Readiness
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Risk
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Investment
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Cost
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Roadmaps
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Priorities
without rebuilding the strategic picture from scratch.
The result is a shift from:
Static strategy → Continuous Strategy
Flexible Ways to Engage
Different organisations need different levels of support.
Xirocco can be used through several engagement models.
Xirocco-Led
Work directly with Xirocco's strategy and technology advisers.
We lead the engagement using Xirocco and Maeros AI throughout the work.
Partner-Enabled
Work through an approved consulting or implementation partner where local market knowledge, sector experience, language or large-scale delivery capability is required.
Client-Operated
Internal teams can operate Xirocco and Maeros AI directly, with optional onboarding, training and specialist advisory support.
Client perspectives
What Clients Say
“For the first time in my career I see a tool with this type of output and insights. I truly believe in its added value.”
“Xirocco presents a transformational new way to create and talk about strategy. This is the way organisations should be doing strategy today.”
“Using the Xirocco platform enabled us to translate a complex IT landscape into a clear, data-backed roadmap. We now have a technology strategy that is practical, measurable, and aligned with our organisation’s mission.”
“I have never seen anything like this before, we are telling a business and IT story in one place.”
“It can answer questions that CIOs are currently not able to answer easily.”
“Xirocco identifies exactly where you are weak, why you can’t keep pace, and how to fix it.”
“Xirocco is the fastest way to measure AI readiness.”
“We found Xirocco to be an excellent tool for helping structure, build and maintain a dynamic IT strategy where we told a joint business and IT story in one place without resorting to static PowerPoint slides. It focussed our minds on what mattered.”
“When I showed him (CFO) how we will now prioritise investments, his eyes popped, he got it straight away. That was the moment it clicked. For me, the fantastic outcome was being able to influence him enough to get the senior executive to behave in a different way.”
“You are in the top right of your own Magic Quadrant.”
Insights
Thinking for leaders making consequential technology decisions.
Our Insights explore the practical questions organisations face across AI, strategy, investment, transformation, resilience, sovereignty and cost.
How to Scale AI From Pilots to Enterprise Adoption
Why successful AI pilots do not necessarily prove that an organisation is ready to scale.
What an AI Target Operating Model Should Include
The strategic, architectural, governance and operational capabilities required for sustainable enterprise AI.
How to Connect Technology Strategy to Business Outcomes
Why technology activity should remain traceable to the capabilities and outcomes it exists to support.
How to Identify IT Cost Savings Without Weakening Capability
Why the best savings opportunities become visible naturally when strategy, technology and investment are connected.
What Problem Are You Trying to Solve?
It may fit one of our established service areas. It may cut across several. It may be something entirely different. That is not a barrier. Start with the issue, decision, opportunity or outcome that matters. We can work backwards into the enterprise context required to understand it.
Bring us the problem, not a predefined scope of work.
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