DV Advisory as ongoing, recurring IT governance

Why this exists

A large organisation has an in-house CTO, a security officer, a procurement department and someone for innovation. An SME doesn't. It has one overloaded IT manager, or an external partner who somehow always recommends the more expensive solution — because that partner earns from what they sell.

Ongoing IT governance fills exactly that gap: independent, senior IT direction, without creating an expensive internal position and without a vendor holding the pen.

How it usually starts

Nobody starts with an ongoing governance relationship right away — trust has to be earned first. Most clients first go through one or more well-defined scans: often Contract & Cost Optimisation or the Security Reality Check, because the value is most quickly visible there. That builds trust. Only then do Infrastructure & Data and AI Basics often follow.

Over a period of 12 to 18 months, a client often goes through all four pillars this way — and at that point a standalone scan has evolved into an ongoing relationship.

What ongoing IT governance concretely means

• Strategic sounding board: a fixed, pre-agreed number of hours or days per month you can fall back on for decisions about investments, vendors, contracts and risks.
• Vendor and contract management: continuous follow-up of your IT partner, telecom and software contracts, so creeping overpayment or tacit renewals no longer slip through.
• Annual repeat scans: repeating the Security and Cost scans periodically, so you don't fall back into the old situation.
• One point of contact: for a major decision (a new ERP, a cloud migration, a tender) you have an independent, senior sounding board — not the salesperson with a stake in it.
• Guidance for the follow-up projects from the scans: migrations, AI pilots, NIS2 trajectories — without having to find and onboard a new external party every time.

What it delivers

Continuity without the overhead of a large consultancy engagement. One senior point of contact who already knows your company, systems and contracts — instead of briefing a new external party every time. And above all: IT decisions taken in your interest, not a vendor's.