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Workplace Advisory — End User Compute CIO Report

A CIO-grade review of your end user compute estate — devices, identity, productivity, security, refresh strategy and cost-to-serve — benchmarked against industry peers and translated into a 12-month roadmap your board can fund.

4 weeks
Typical engagement, discovery to board-ready report
12-month
Costed roadmap with quantified savings and risk reduction
Vendor-neutral
No vendor commission on advisory work — recommendations stand alone
Scope

Eight dimensions of a modern workplace estate.

Device strategy

Fleet composition, refresh cadence, persona/role mapping, BYOD posture, accessibility considerations and sustainability profile.

Identity & access

Microsoft Entra ID maturity, conditional access, MFA coverage, privileged access, joiner-mover-leaver automation.

Endpoint management

Intune / Jamf maturity, Autopilot & zero-touch readiness, golden-image strategy, application packaging and update rings.

Endpoint security

EDR (Defender / CrowdStrike) coverage, attack-surface reduction, USB/data egress controls, vulnerability management.

Productivity & collaboration

M365 entitlement vs. utilisation, Teams telephony, M365 Copilot readiness, governance for SharePoint, OneDrive and Power Platform.

Service desk experience

Ticket-volume trends, top deflection candidates, CSAT, self-service maturity, opportunities for agentic AI triage.

Cost-to-serve

True total cost per user — hardware, software, support, training, refresh — benchmarked against industry peers.

AI & automation readiness

Data, identity, governance and change-management readiness for Copilot, Claude and agentic AI deployment.

How we run it

A four-week engagement

01

Discover

Stakeholder interviews, system reads against Intune/Jamf/Entra/M365, ITSM data, finance & procurement records.

02

Benchmark

Score against industry peers — cost-per-user, ticket-per-user, refresh cadence, security baseline maturity.

03

Recommend

Prioritised initiatives — quick wins (≤90 days), strategic plays (3–12 months), each with quantified business case.

04

Present

Board-ready CIO report. Executive briefing. Roadmap workshop with your IT leadership team.

Deliverable

What "board-ready" actually looks like

CIO Report (PDF + slide deck)

Executive summary, current-state assessment, peer benchmark, prioritised roadmap, costed business case, risk register — written for the audit committee, not the SOC.

Optional execution partner

If you want us to deliver the roadmap, we can — through our Workplace, Managed Services and Purchasing teams. Or take the report and run it yourself; we are equally happy either way.

Know exactly where your workplace estate stands.

Book a Workplace Advisory engagement