The building blocks of the new digital strategy

In 2018, Irish Life commissioned Strata3 to review the current digital operating model within the organisation & advise on an optimum approach for the future. As an initial discovery exercise to inform this work, Strata3 conducted a number of interviews & workshops with key Irish Life stakeholders. The scope of this consulting work project focused specifically on 3x initial deliverables, namely:

• 1. Digital Guiding Principles as the building blocks of a digital vision.

• 2. Digital Operating Model to align the digital functions & bring the guiding principles to life.

• 3. Digital Governance framework to ensure an effective digital operating an associated governance framework, shaped by the guiding principles, frameworks and organised as a set of regular meetings. It is designed to ensure full alignment between business and IT in the sharing of roadmaps with a group level oversight on governance, prioritisation & delivery of the digital strategy.

As an initial discovery exercise to inform our work, Strata3 conducted several interviews, workshops & meetings with key Irish Life business & IT stakeholders. The outputs from these sessions helped to form the basis, rationale & frameworks for guiding digital principles, operating model & governance.

Strata3 are retained to support the senior digital leadership to continue to develop the strategic direction for digital for Irish Life Group, whist working actively on the Irish Life Health brand.