Accelerated delivery
Faster, when you are ready for it.
Some organisations genuinely can go live in weeks rather than years. Others cannot, and finding that out halfway through is expensive. RAPID starts with an honest look at whether speed is safe for you, then delivers against it.
If you are not ready to move fast, we will tell you.
Sound familiar?
Something has set the clock.
Most people asking about a faster route are not chasing speed for its own sake.
The business needs it this year, not in two years
A carve-out date, an acquisition or a contract end is setting the clock, not an IT roadmap.
You have seen a long programme drift before
Eighteen months in, still designing, and nobody quite able to say why.
You mostly need what the product already does
The requirement is real but not exotic, and standard capability would cover most of it.
Someone has promised a date already
And you would like to know honestly whether it is achievable before you repeat it.
You do not have people to spare for a year
The team who know the business still have day jobs.
What customers say
People who have been through delivery with us.
Around 80% of our business comes from existing customers and referrals.
80%
of our business comes from existing customers and referrals.
The best I’ve ever experienced in over 20 years of collaboration.
Programme Manager, Hill & Smith Plc
What decides whether you can go fast
Five honest questions, then a straight answer.
None of them are about how hard anybody is willing to work.
- Does the product already do it?: The closer your process sits to standard capability, the faster this gets. Genuine differentiators are fine, they just need naming early.
- Are your people actually available?: Not on the plan. In the diary, alongside their day job, for the weeks it matters.
- Can somebody decide?: When two parts of the business disagree, one named person needs to settle it that week, not next quarter.
- Is the data in reasonable shape?: Data is the most common reason a compressed timeline slips. We look at it at the start, not the month before go-live.
- Will the business change how it works?: Acceleration means adopting proven ways of working where the platform has a sensible one.
- We give you one of four answers: Ready, ready once specific gaps close, standard delivery is safer, or we need to understand more first.
The four possible answers
Two of these mean not yet.
You get one of them, with the reasoning, before any date is discussed.
Ready to go
The conditions support it. We agree a first release and get moving.
Ready, with conditions
Achievable once specific gaps close. We name them rather than hoping they resolve themselves.
Standard delivery is safer
The work is doable, but a compressed timeline would not hold.
Understand it first
Scope or readiness needs assessing before any date is credible.
Three routes
Which one applies depends on the platform.
Complexity decides the route, not the size of your organisation.
Dynamics 365 CRM / Customer Engagement
RAPID 10
An accelerated route to a working customer engagement foundation where the sales or service process is well understood and close to standard.
Ideal when
- Sales or service process already understood
- Small number of users to onboard first
- Limited integration in the first release
- Decisions can be made quickly
Dynamics 365 Business Central
RAPID 30
An accelerated route to a standard finance and operations core for organisations whose processes fit the Business Central model closely.
Ideal when
- Single or simple multi-entity finance model
- Fit-to-standard is genuinely acceptable
- Data available and reasonably clean
- One clear decision-maker per area
Dynamics 365 Finance & Supply Chain
RAPID 90
A structured accelerated route to an enterprise finance and supply chain core where scope is contained and the organisation can sustain the pace.
Ideal when
- Enterprise scale with a contained first release
- Standardisation is an accepted objective
- Programme governance already in place
- Business availability can be protected
Common questions
Questions leaders ask before committing to a date.
Part of the InteliSense Delivery System
Acceleration uses the same delivery system, brought forward.
Proven baselines, early data work, recorded decisions and gates before go-live. Our delivery approach explains how the method works whether you move quickly or not.
How we deliverAn honest answer first
Is a faster route realistic for you?
Tell us what is driving the date and what state you are in. We will tell you whether speed is safe, what would need to be true, and which route fits.