Expert Guidance toUnlock the Power Platform
At Lantern, we understand that harnessing the full power of Microsoft’s Power Platform is key to accelerating your digital transformation. Our Power Platform Advisory Services are designed to help you navigate the complexities of low-code development, ensuring your initiatives drive innovation and deliver tangible business value.
Becoming a digital leader means leveraging tools like Power Platform to create agile, efficient, and innovative solutions. Lantern’s Advisory Services help you build a comprehensive Power Platform strategy across three critical areas:
- Envisioning – To rapidly explore new concepts and increase your innovation velocity.
- Strategy & Planning – To create a roadmap for building strategic capabilities and maximizing your investment.
- Portfolio Assessment & Adoption – To manage your growing app landscape and drive organization-wide adoption.
The outcome? A strategic blueprint for leveraging Power Platform across your organization, complete with a practical implementation roadmap. This empowers you to accelerate innovation, optimize resources, and maintain a competitive edge in the era of AI.
Strategic Impact of Low-Code Development
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Envisioning
Our Envisioning service is designed to rapidly explore new concepts and increase your innovation velocity using Microsoft’s Power Platform. This engagement follows a structured approach to help you uncover challenges, surface opportunities, and imagine practical and radical new ways to tackle them.
- We begin by understanding your current experience and identifying areas for improvement.
- Then, through ideation workshops, we help you envision innovative solutions leveraging the Power Platform’s capabilities.
- The process culminates in building a proof-of-concept experience that your organization can get excited about.
- We then assess the potential impact of your idea to help you make informed go/no-go decisions.
By the end of this engagement, you’ll have a tangible future state vision in the form of a proof-of-concept experience, generating excitement about new concepts or capabilities. Additionally, you’ll receive a clear roadmap outlining the steps and activities needed to bring your vision to production.
This service is ideal for organizations looking to harness the power of low-code tools to supercharge their innovation efforts and drastically reduce risk and cost in introducing new business applications.
Strategy & Planning
Our Power Platform Strategy & Planning service is tailored for organizations seeking to harness the full potential of Microsoft’s Business Applications for maximum impact. This engagement is ideal if you need a comprehensive roadmap to build strategic new capabilities using the Power Platform, or if you’re looking to assess your current state of readiness to increase adoption and scale.
- Our expert team will work with you to identify where to focus your Business Application investments for optimal results.
- We’ll provide you with invaluable knowledge and insights on integrating new and impactful technologies with the Power Platform.
This service is designed to unlock a powerful new way for your company to innovate at scale. By engaging in our Strategy & Planning service, you’ll gain:
- A clear, actionable roadmap for leveraging the Power Platform
- A thorough assessment of your organization’s readiness
- Strategic insights for maximizing your investment
This engagement will equip you with the tools and knowledge needed to supercharge your innovation velocity using low-code tools, setting your organization on a path to digital leadership.
Assessment
Our Portfolio Assessment service is designed to help organizations effectively manage and optimize their growing landscape of business applications built on the Power Platform. This engagement is crucial for companies finding it challenging to support a rapidly expanding number of applications.
Through focused discussions, we’ll:
- Gain a comprehensive understanding of your existing business application portfolio.
- Review your environment configuration, governance practices, and application approaches, followed by a detailed examination of targeted assets.
Our expert team will then provide tailored recommendations for improvements. The engagement culminates in strategic planning sessions where we work through application-specific approaches to refine your overall strategy.
By the end of this service, you’ll receive two key deliverables:
- An Application Improvement Plan, which includes a summary of findings and a prioritized list of recommendations to achieve your desired outcomes.
- A strategic Roadmap that outlines how to manage each asset in alignment with the plan, ensuring maximum business impact.
This service is invaluable for organizations looking to target their efforts effectively, increase innovation velocity, and maximize the impact of their Power Platform investments.
Adoption & Enablement
Our Adoption & Enablement service is designed to help your organization fuel innovation velocity securely and sustainably with Microsoft’s Power Platform. This engagement is crucial for organizations looking to unlock the platform’s potential while maintaining strong governance.
- We begin by collecting information on existing pain points and defining success criteria for enterprise adoption.
- Our experts then review your existing environment, governance strategies, and application approaches.
- We work through targeted assets, providing recommendations for improvement.
The engagement also includes guidance and support tools to build excitement around the platform and plan for widespread adoption.
By the end of this service, you’ll receive two key deliverables:
- An Assessment & Recommendations report, which includes a capability map based on your current state, a summary of findings, and a prioritized list of recommendations.
- A comprehensive Roadmap to support and promote ongoing adoption of the platform based on our recommendations.
This service is ideal for organizations aiming to encourage innovation at all levels of technical ability while ensuring a secure and sustainable approach to Power Platform adoption.
- How can envisioning help my organization explore new ideas quickly?
Our Envisioning service helps your organization rapidly explore new concepts using the Power Platform. We’ll work with you to uncover challenges, brainstorm innovative solutions, and create a proof-of-concept that excites your team. You’ll walk away with a clear vision of how to leverage the Power Platform for quick, impactful innovation.
- I'm struggling with Power Platform adoption. How will the Strategy & Planning service help me?
Our Strategy & Planning service is perfect for organizations like yours struggling with Power Platform adoption. We’ll assess your current readiness, create a tailored roadmap for building new capabilities, and help you identify where to focus your efforts for maximum impact. You’ll gain clear direction on how to scale your Power Platform usage effectively.
- We have too many apps and it's becoming unmanageable. Can your Assessment help?
Absolutely. Our Assessment service is designed for organizations facing app sprawl. We’ll review your entire application landscape, prioritize your efforts, and provide a detailed improvement plan. You’ll receive a strategic roadmap to manage your apps more effectively, ensuring each one delivers the business impact you need.
- How can I encourage innovation with the Power Platform while maintaining proper governance?
Our Adoption & Enablement service strikes the perfect balance between innovation and governance. We’ll help you set up a governance framework that encourages innovation at all levels while maintaining security and sustainability. You’ll be able to unlock the Power Platform’s full potential across your organization without compromising control.
- What concrete results will I get from these advisory services?
Each of our advisory services delivers tangible, actionable outcomes. Depending on the service, you’ll receive items such as a future state vision, a proof-of-concept, a detailed implementation roadmap, a prioritized improvement plan, or a comprehensive adoption strategy. These deliverables provide you with clear, practical guidance to move forward confidently with the Power Platform.
- How will these services contribute to my company's digital transformation efforts?
These services are designed to accelerate your digital transformation efforts. By leveraging the Power Platform’s low-code tools, you’ll be able to innovate faster, reduce development costs, and unlock new capabilities across your organization. Our strategic guidance ensures your Power Platform initiatives align with and drive your overall digital transformation goals, helping you stay ahead in today’s fast-paced business environment.
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