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Time-boxed senior practice counsel for transformation programmes that need a steady hand. Fractional CTO and CDO support for the duration of a programme decision, not a permanent role. Advisory is TBSCG's service for executive sponsors and transformation leaders who need senior counsel on a specific decision or a specific programme window rather than ongoing engagement. Examples include platform selection, programme rescue assessment, M&A integration counsel, AI strategy guidance, and board-facing programme communications. Fixed-scope, fixed-fee, time-boxed. AWS Advanced Consulting Partner. Twenty years of enterprise digital transformation experience.
Overview
What this is
Advisory is TBSCG's service for executive sponsors and transformation leaders who need senior practice counsel on a specific programme decision or a specific programme window. The buyer profile is specific: an executive sponsor responsible for a transformation programme who needs senior judgement to make a particular call; a board or steering committee that needs an independent view before approving a programme commitment; a programme leader who needs fractional senior capacity to navigate a specific window without bringing in a permanent role.
Advisory is deliberately time-boxed and decision-shaped. Where the buyer needs ongoing engineering work, see Grove. Where the buyer needs ongoing support, see Canopy. Advisory exists for the windows in between, where senior counsel on a specific decision is the right shape and a longer engagement would be wrong.
Common engagement shapes
Platform selection. Independent senior counsel on which DXP, CMS, DAM, or commerce platform fits a specific organisation and roadmap. Typically four weeks. Output is a documented recommendation with reasoning the procurement team can defend.
Programme rescue assessment. Senior judgement on whether a programme that is in trouble can be recovered, restructured, or has to be restarted. Typically four to six weeks. Output is a board-readable position with options.
M&A integration counsel. Senior counsel on how to structure CMS and DXP integration in the context of an acquisition. Typically four to eight weeks. Output is an integration playbook the merged team can execute.
AI strategy guidance. Senior counsel on where AI fits in the buyer's specific roadmap, what foundations have to be in place first, and which initiatives are most likely to succeed. Typically eight to twelve weeks. Output is a documented AI roadmap with sequencing and dependencies.
Board-facing programme communications. Senior support for an executive sponsor presenting a complex programme position to a board or steering committee. Typically four to six weeks. Output is the briefing material itself, plus stakeholder readouts where required.
Why this shape works
Most transformation programmes hit moments where senior judgement is the bottleneck rather than execution capacity. Bringing in a permanent CTO or CDO to address one decision is overhead the buyer does not need. Hiring a Big Four advisory firm produces a 200-page deck and a delivery team that wants to stay. Advisory is built to be in between: senior enough to carry weight, narrow enough to be commissioned for one decision, structured to disengage cleanly at the end of the time-box.
How it runs
The engagement starts with a scoping conversation that defines the decision or window, the deliverables, the time-box, and the named consultant. The engagement runs against fixed weekly cadence with the executive sponsor: structured working sessions, written interim positions, stakeholder readouts where required. The engagement ends with documented handover of the decision, the reasoning, and any artifacts the buyer needs for downstream procurement, audit, or board communication.
The named consultant is senior. Advisory is not a service junior practitioners deliver. The bench includes consultants with prior CTO, CDO, or transformation director experience at enterprise scale.
What you get
A named senior consultant for the duration of the time-box. A documented diagnostic, recommendation, or position appropriate to the engagement shape. Stakeholder readouts where the engagement involves multiple parties. Written deliverables the executive sponsor can use for procurement, audit, board, or regulatory consumption. Clean disengagement at the end of the time-box.
Why TBSCG
AWS Advanced Consulting Partner. Magnolia Gold Partner. Twenty years of enterprise digital transformation experience. Senior consultants on bench with board-facing transformation experience: platform selection, programme rescue, M&A integration, AI strategy. Not graduate pyramids.
The brand position: the endpoint of the engagement is the client owning the decision and the consequences. Advisory exists to help make that decision well, not to take it over.
Adjacent services
DXP Value Assessment for Financial Services for buyers who need the diagnostic shape rather than time-boxed counsel. Recovery where the advisory engagement surfaces that remediation work is needed. Grove for ongoing engineering capacity after Advisory has framed the right shape of work. Canopy for managed support of a running platform.
Highlights
- Time-boxed advisory engagements typically running four to twelve weeks. Named senior consultant assigned at engagement start with a specific decision or window to support. Engagement deliverables include written diagnostic, board-readable recommendations, structured stakeholder readouts, and where required, written sign-off positions for procurement, audit, or regulatory consumption. Pricing fixed against the time-boxed scope rather than open-ended day-rate consulting.
- Fractional senior counsel, not a permanent role. Advisory exists for the gap between an executive sponsor who needs senior judgement on a specific programme decision and the cost of bringing in a permanent CTO or CDO to make it. The engagement is sized to the decision: a four-week platform selection, an eight-week M&A integration counsel, a twelve-week AI strategy guidance. At the end of the time-box, the named consultant disengages with documented handover; the decision is the client's to own.
- AWS Advanced Consulting Partner. Magnolia Gold Partner. Certified across Contentful, Contentstack, Cloudinary, and commercetools. Twenty years of enterprise digital transformation for FS&I, retail, and global brand clients including Nikon, Bobcat, Herbalife, and El Corte Inglés. Senior consultants on bench with board-facing transformation experience, not graduate pyramids.
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Advisory engagements are sized in standard time-boxes: four weeks, six weeks, eight weeks, or twelve weeks. The right time-box is determined at scoping rather than left open-ended, and the engagement is priced against the chosen time-box rather than against day rates.
The named senior consultant is contracted as the consistent presence across the engagement window. Where multiple specialisms are required (e.g. M&A integration counsel may require both content and commerce specialism), the named consultant is the lead and additional senior bench is drawn against the specific need.
Advisory engagements deliberately do not include implementation work. Where the buyer wants the recommendation implemented, the engagement transitions to a project, a transformation programme, or a Grove engagement at the appropriate commercial structure. The clean transition is the discipline that keeps Advisory honest.
Contact: support_aws@tbscg.com / +44 20 8191 3160