Business leaders who suspect IT is underperforming — but cannot point to specific evidence beyond cost overruns, missed timelines, and business unit frustration — need an honest, structured assessment that identifies the root causes rather than the symptoms. Full On Consulting's IT health check delivers a stakeholder-validated assessment of IT capability, business alignment, technology debt, governance, and investment efficiency — led by a former CIO/CTO with 20+ years of enterprise IT leadership who can assess IT organizations through the lens of someone who has personally built, led, and fixed them.
$40M+
In documented client savings identified and realized through IT assessment and transformation leadership
20+
Years as enterprise CIO and CTO — assessment perspective from someone who has built and fixed IT organizations
30 Days
Typical IT health check engagement timeline — structured assessment with prioritized recommendations in under a month
Actionable
Prioritized improvement roadmap — not a 50-page findings report with 40 recommendations of equal priority
What the IT Health Check Covers
From IT Capability and Business Alignment to Technology Debt, Governance, and Investment Efficiency
IT Capability Assessment
Structured IT capability assessment — evaluating the IT organization's people, process, and technology capabilities against the requirements of the business it serves. IT team skills and structure, IT operating model, service delivery performance, technology currency, and the gap between what the IT organization is capable of delivering and what the business requires it to deliver. Capability assessment that produces a prioritized improvement roadmap, not a capability maturity model score that translates to nothing actionable.
IT-Business Alignment Review
IT-business alignment assessment — evaluating whether IT investment priorities, delivery capacity, and strategic focus are aligned to the business's actual priorities and growth agenda. Business leader interviews to understand where IT is delivering value and where it is perceived as a constraint or liability, benchmarked against the IT investment and capability levels of comparable organizations. Alignment gaps identified with specific recommendations for closing them through process change, investment reallocation, or organizational restructuring.
Technology Debt & Portfolio Analysis
Technology debt and application portfolio analysis — inventorying the technology landscape for technical debt, aging infrastructure, end-of-life systems, unsupported software, and integration complexity that is increasing IT cost and constraining business agility. Portfolio analysis that quantifies the risk and remediation cost of each technical debt item, enabling business-informed decisions about which debt to address immediately, which to plan for, and which to accept as a calculated risk.
IT Governance & Risk Review
IT governance and risk assessment — evaluating the IT decision-making processes, policies, standards, and controls that govern how technology investment is made, how IT risk is managed, and how IT performance is measured and reported. Identifying governance gaps that expose the organization to unmanaged technology risk — cybersecurity vulnerabilities, compliance gaps, vendor dependencies, and disaster recovery deficiencies — with a prioritized risk remediation roadmap calibrated to business impact.
IT Organization & Leadership Assessment
IT organization structure and leadership assessment — evaluating whether the IT organization is appropriately structured for the work it is expected to deliver, whether IT leadership capability is matched to the organization's technology ambition, and whether IT talent gaps are limiting delivery capacity in ways that are not visible from outside the IT function. Organizational assessment that distinguishes structural issues from people issues, and management issues from resource issues — because each requires a different response.
IT Investment & Vendor Audit
IT investment efficiency and vendor audit — reviewing the IT budget allocation for over-investment in maintenance relative to strategic initiatives, under-utilized licenses, redundant vendor contracts, and vendor relationships that are not delivering contracted value. IT investment audits that identify the budget reallocation opportunities that could fund strategic technology investment without increasing the total IT budget — by eliminating waste from the existing IT spend rather than requesting incremental investment.
What Makes Us Different
Why Our IT Health Check Produces Findings That Lead to Real Change
Honest Assessment — Not a Consulting Sales Tool
IT health checks conducted by consulting firms with a stake in the remediation work they recommend produce assessments calibrated to justify the next engagement rather than to accurately diagnose the IT organization's actual condition. Full On Consulting's IT health check is designed to produce the most accurate possible assessment — including findings that are uncomfortable, priorities that conflict with current IT leadership preferences, and recommendations that may not require our ongoing involvement to implement.
Former CIO Assessment Perspective
IT health checks conducted by consultants without direct CIO experience tend to identify the same issues that any experienced IT professional would find — technology currency problems, process gaps, governance deficiencies. Former CIOs assess IT organizations through a different lens: the organizational dynamics that produce IT dysfunction, the leadership patterns that allow technical debt to accumulate, the budget allocation decisions that reflect strategic priorities versus political accommodation, and the vendor relationships where the balance of power has shifted against the organization.
Prioritized Remediation, Not Comprehensive Findings
IT health assessments that produce 50-page findings reports with 40 improvement recommendations are not actionable — they are comprehensive. We calibrate assessment deliverables to what the organization can actually act on: a prioritized improvement roadmap with three to five high-impact recommendations, specific remediation actions with ownership and timeline, and a clear sequencing of what to fix first and why. Assessment value is measured by what changes as a result, not by the length of the findings document.
Stakeholder-Validated, Not Survey-Based
IT health assessments based primarily on IT team surveys and self-assessment produce findings that reflect the IT organization's self-perception rather than its actual business alignment. We conduct structured interviews with both IT leadership and business stakeholders — finance, operations, sales, and HR leaders who interact with IT daily — to triangulate between IT's perception of its own performance and the business's experience of IT. The gap between these perspectives is frequently the most important finding.
Featured Case Study
IT Transformation Program — $40M+ in Savings Identified Through IT Assessment and Realized Through Transformation Leadership
Full On Consulting led an enterprise IT transformation that delivered $40M+ in documented savings — initiated by a structured assessment that identified the specific IT investment inefficiencies, vendor relationship gaps, application portfolio redundancies, and organizational capability deficits that were consuming IT budget without producing business value. The assessment produced the prioritized improvement roadmap that the transformation program executed.
Assessment without implementation capability is analysis without impact. We conduct IT health checks with the intention and capability to lead the remediation programs the assessment identifies — so the findings produce a roadmap that Full On Consulting can help execute, not a report that the organization is left to action on its own without the leadership that found the issues.
Read the Full Case Study →$40M+
In documented savings identified through IT assessment and realized through transformation leadership
40%
Business growth enabled through IT assessment-driven investment reallocation and organizational improvement
30 Days
Typical IT health check timeline — assessment, findings, and prioritized improvement roadmap delivered
Before You Engage
What to Ask an IT Assessment Firm
Do they assess the IT organization from both IT and business stakeholder perspectives?
IT health checks that rely primarily on IT team input and self-assessment produce findings that reflect IT's perception of its own performance rather than the business's experience of IT's performance. The most important finding in most IT assessments is the gap between how IT believes it is performing and how the business experiences that performance — and that gap only surfaces when business stakeholders are interviewed with the same rigor as IT stakeholders. Ask how many business leader interviews are conducted as part of the assessment, what questions are asked, and how business stakeholder feedback is weighted relative to IT team self-assessment.
How do they distinguish symptoms from root causes in IT dysfunction?
IT health check findings that identify symptoms — projects run over budget, IT responsiveness is poor, the technology landscape is outdated — without diagnosing root causes produce recommendations that address the symptoms rather than the causes. IT budget overruns have different root causes in an organization with poor project governance, weak vendor management, and inadequate requirements processes — and the recommendations differ accordingly. Ask how the firm structures the assessment to identify root causes rather than observable symptoms, and how they present findings in a way that allows the organization to understand why the problems exist rather than just that they exist.
What does the assessment deliverable look like — and is it actionable?
IT health check deliverables range from comprehensive maturity model scorecards to focused executive briefings with prioritized recommendations. An IT health check that produces a 60-page report with findings across 15 capability domains and 40 recommendations requires months of interpretation before it produces action — which means most of its findings are never acted on. Ask what the primary deliverable format is, how findings are prioritized, and how many discrete improvement recommendations the engagement produces. The right number is usually three to seven priority actions — not a complete gap analysis across every IT capability domain.
Can they help implement the remediation, or just assess?
An IT health check from a firm that has no capability to lead IT transformation, organizational development, vendor renegotiation, or technology modernization is assessment without a path to remediation — findings that the organization is left to act on without the leadership that identified them. Ask whether the firm has the capability to lead the remediation of the issues the assessment identifies: IT organization restructuring, vendor management improvement, technology debt remediation, and governance design. Assessment value is multiplied when the firm that identifies the problems can also lead the work to fix them.
Honest IT Assessment From a Former CIO
IT Health Check: Find Out What's Actually Happening in Your IT Organization
Our former CIO/CTO will assess your IT organization's capability, business alignment, technology debt, governance, and investment efficiency — interviewing both IT and business stakeholders, identifying root causes rather than symptoms, and delivering a prioritized improvement roadmap that your organization can act on rather than a findings report it will never finish reading.
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Senior Consultants Only
Every engagement is led and delivered by senior consultants — former CIOs, CTOs, and enterprise IT executives. You get the people you were sold, not a bait-and-switch to junior staff after the contract is signed.
$40M+ in Documented Savings
Our track record includes $40M+ in verified client savings, a $130M M&A integration across 90+ global facilities, and an end-user computing transformation for 18,000 employees. We deliver measurable outcomes — not just recommendations.
20+ Years of Enterprise Experience
Our consultants average 20+ years of enterprise IT experience across Fortune 500 and mid-market companies. We have run the same programs we are being asked to lead — across SAP, Oracle, Salesforce, ServiceNow, and large-scale transformations.
Strategy Through Execution
We do not hand you a strategy deck and walk away. Our teams stay engaged from initial assessment through go-live — accountable for outcomes, not just deliverables. If we recommend it, we are prepared to execute it.
Boutique Agility
As a boutique firm, we move faster, adapt to your priorities, and work with your team rather than around it. No bureaucracy, no layers of overhead — just focused, senior-led execution from day one.
A Partner, Not a Vendor
We build long-term relationships grounded in trust and integrity. Many of our clients have engaged us across multiple initiatives and refer us to peers — because we do what we say we will do, every time.