9.4.3.2Vertical

IT Strategy & Roadmap Advisory

Consultancies advising on IT strategy and technology planning.

Market snapshot

These figures describe IT Consulting & Advisory (9.4.3), the segment that IT Strategy & Roadmap Advisory sits within. They are not figures for IT Strategy & Roadmap Advisory on its own.

FragmentationFragmentedEstimate

Not sized separately. Advisory work draws on the same custom-programming and systems-design classification as every other delivery segment here, so the revenue sits with the parent. Consulting is nonetheless the front door to the rest: the firm that scopes the roadmap usually wins the implementation behind it.

Business model & economics

Revenue model

Advisory and systems-design fees (often advise-and-build)

Key economics

Recurring revenue
Moderate

recurring advisory and program work

EBITDA margin
Healthy professional-services economics
Capex intensity
Low

Characteristics

  • Systems design, strategy, and technology advisory.
  • Increasingly tied to implementation (advise-and-build).
  • Generative AI a major advisory topic and disruptor.

M&A deal context

Deal activityHigh

Who’s acquiring

  • Global consultancies & IT-services majors
  • PE-backed advisory consolidators
  • Specialist & boutique acquirers

What’s driving deals

  • Digital-transformation and AI-strategy demand.
  • Strategy-plus-delivery consolidation.
  • Specialist-advisory roll-ups.

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