LEIT DATA’s Forward Deployed Architect (FDA) and Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) offering helps organisations uncover the business and delivery friction that slows transformation programmes before it becomes expensive or difficult to reverse. Designed for CIOs, CDOs, and transformation sponsors, the service combines stakeholder interviews, process review, collaborative workshops, and system evidence to identify where delays, inefficiencies, and route-to-live risks are building up across programmes such as ERP, AI/ML, modern data platforms, and regulatory change.

What makes this approach different is that it looks at both sides of the problem at the same time. The FDA focuses on business friction such as process inefficiencies, data quality issues, master data gaps, governance blockers, and reporting delays, while the FDE examines delivery friction including release bottlenecks, fragile pipelines, environment delays, observability gaps, and cost waste. These issues are then quantified using a simple model based on hours, cost, and frequency, giving leadership a clear evidence base for prioritisation and decision-making.