Empowering CTOs

CTO Aligned Benefits of EPF

What does EPF give to CTOs ?

Innovation Enablement

A global consumer electronics company’s CTO was facing delays in delivering innovation due to a bloated and inefficient tech stack.

EPF’s Review phase uncovered redundancy across platforms, middleware, and development environments.

During Assess, the framework used waste mapping and platform lifecycle analysis to find and remove 23% of unimportant integrations. This freed budget and engineering capacity, which was redirected toward AI-driven product features.

With a clear prioritisation matrix from EPF’s Design phase, the CTO introduced a rapid prototyping programme, accelerating time to market for two major innovations.

A national logistics provider’s CTO needed to modernise a mission-critical legacy system without jeopardising operational uptime.

EPF’s structured Design phase balanced immediate user needs with a future-proof architecture by sequencing the transition in low-risk, high-value phases.

The Review baseline captured all dependencies across data, application, and infrastructure layers.

Using EPF’s architectural templates and risk-mitigation protocols, the CTO mapped a hybrid cloud transition plan that delivered 30% performance improvements and enabled faster integration with new services.

Technology Modernisation

Strategic Roadmapping

At a multinational retail group, the CTO lacked a cohesive technology roadmap aligned with business strategy.

EPF’s Assess phase linked all technical assets to strategic capabilities and customer journeys. Leveraging EPF’s strategic alignment toolkit, the CTO developed a three-year roadmap co-authored with the CMO and CFO.

Each initiative was scored using EPF’s prioritisation framework to ensure measurable value delivery. Regular Engage workshops ensured continuous alignment, resulting in synchronised releases across IT, marketing, and operations.

The roadmap has since guided over £40M of transformation spend with 92% initiative success rate.

A European fintech CTO needed to present a compelling case for platform modernisation to skeptical stakeholders.

EPF’s Review phase documented over 140 known defects and compliance risks within ageing core systems.

The Assess phase applied EPF’s cost-of-technical-debt model, quantifying its annual drag on customer experience and innovation throughput.

Using the Five Case Model, the CTO constructed a business case that predicted a 3.6x ROI over three years.

The board unanimously approved the budget, and the CTO’s programme became the cornerstone of the firm’s digital reinvention.

Technical Debt Quantification

Architectural Alignment

A SaaS firm’s rapid growth had led to a fragmented technical architecture.

The CTO engaged Evangelize to realign technology with business goals.

EPF’s Design phase introduced a modular, service-oriented reference architecture, derived from a full capability-to-platform trace during Review. This ensured architectural decisions directly supported the product strategy. Redundant and siloed tools were retired, and development processes were harmonised across business units.

The CTO now governs a living architecture that scales with the firm’s expansion, enabling new product launches in half the previous time.