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IT Design is LV3's hands-on consulting practice: we draw the chart your business will follow, and we sail the route alongside you. Business goals → data strategy → technology strategy → realisation → reflection — six steps, run as one structured engagement, grounded in DMBOK and PMBOK. We lead with design — and can take on the build too, from contract development to a proof of concept, when you need it. Confront emergencies with the power and expertise of IT Design.
The journey · 6 steps
An IT Design engagement is a single voyage with six phases. We start from the business objective — not the technology — and only commit to the build once the destination, the route, and the constraints are explicit.
What we design
Every IT Design engagement produces two layered artefacts. The Business model is the operational story (ASIS today, TOBE at the destination, the gap, the executive design). The Data model is the underlying resource map — what data exists, what's shared, what's unique, how it powers the business.
For business goals— draw up a phased design, including a transition period, to gradually move the business toward its objective.
Organise where the business stands today (ASIS) and where the project should take it (TOBE). Map the gap, design the executive organisation that will close it, schedule the work in phases. The deliverable is a roadmap a CFO and CTO can both read.
For data strategy— maximise data as a shared resource by visualising the shared parts of every department and every job.
Investigate the common and unique parts of operations, then visualise the business with focus on the common parts. Identify the constituent elements of business activity, design data structures that support them, decide how data becomes a strategic resource — not a by-product.
Organise ASIS and TOBE (based on the purpose of the project) and draw a step-by-step roadmap for realisation.
After investigating the common and unique parts of the business, visualise the business with focus on the common parts. We identify the constituent elements necessary for business activities and implement data design while considering how they can be utilised as resources.
Three domains
Every business has these three layers. We design data and IT systems so the three reinforce each other — not the typical reality where each builds its own silo and ends up duplicating work, contradicting policy, and leaking customer trust.
Data design for revenue
Data design for build and run
Data design with security in mind
Draw up a phased design, including a transition period, to gradually move closer to business goals.
Maximise data as a shared resource by visualising the shared parts of each department and each job.
Each phase has a standard support path (where most of the work lives) and a special support path for situations that need direct LV3 involvement — guidelines, audits, third-party evaluation, knowledge consolidation. The two paths run together so the engagement always has a fall-back.
What kind of IT-design work have you done?
We have led IT design across manufacturing, industrial control, medical devices, accounting, telecommunications, and military sectors. Our scope spans business → data → IT-infrastructure design, all aligned to the goals envisioned by the CEOs and executives we work with.
Can you develop the IT system as well?
Design is where we lead — after many wins and losses, we concluded it's our core competence. When you need the build as well, we can take it on, from contract development to a PoC; and we're glad to hand off where another firm does it better.
Projects supported
Since LV3 was founded in 2017, we have supported data projects ranging from continuous 24-hour ingestion of hundreds of millions of records, to data-magazine frameworks that span European subsidiaries, to academic-grade A.I. and optimisation work, to commercial efforts that replace intuition-and-experience decision-making with measurable evidence.
"That is what our business stands for." Our clients are constantly confronted with major problems. We implement value creation through IT design — not only through numerically measurable business growth, but also by shaping a new working relationship between management and the field. The methodology behind these nine years is collected in the book ITG (Gijutsu-Hyoron, 24 August 2026).
Our policy
LV3 was founded with the belief in the power of IT to protect the safety and order of society.
With a sense of mission born of the founder's experience, we use IT design and technology to confront major social problems.
Although the people who do this work have no special abilities, they carry out their mission as modern-day "heroes" by protecting social systems through IT.
One LV3 consultant. One project. The roadmap and the data model — drawn from the destination back, executed alongside your team.
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