Strategic Projects

Some priorities need a defined beginning and end.

Most of Keelson’s work is continuous. But some initiatives are too big for a monthly cadence — they need their own plan, timeline and definition of done. Those become separately scoped projects, led by Keelson and delivered with your IT people.

04 · Project Execution

When a priority needs an owner from start to finish.

Some work is too big for a monthly check-in. If it needs its own plan, timeline and definition of done, it becomes a project — run by Keelson, delivered with your IT people.

From the operating recordDecision — eight inherited Microsoft 365 tenants, one per acquisition · promoted to an owned project

Strategic project

Microsoft 365 tenant consolidation

Illustrative plan structure

FromEight inherited tenants, one per acquisition

ToOne governed platform tenant

OwnershipKeelson directs · IT delivery performs

  • Discovery & tenant inventoryComplete
  • Identity mapping & naming standardComplete
  • Pilot migration — first entityComplete
  • Wave migrations — entities 2–7In progress
  • Legacy tenant decommissionScheduled
  • Completion review against criteriaScheduled

Completion criteriaDone means: every mailbox, file store and identity on the platform tenant; legacy tenants closed; support handed to steady-state delivery.

Other projects of this shape: folding in a new acquisition · evaluating or replacing IT providers · security fixes · hardware refresh · AI phone answering · putting AI to work in the CRM · a company-wide AI policy with staff training.

Technology should not get harder every time you buy a company.

If the portfolio has grown faster than the technology operating model behind it, that is the conversation Keelson was built for.

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