STRATEGY
STRATEGY
We work with businesses and the government in designing strategies that are practical, capable of implementation and that stay the course. Our core expertise in business transformation enables us to integrate real estate, infrastructure, finance, technical and people or culture, producing change that makes a difference and sustains over time.
Our capabilities cover:
- Market appreciation, shaping and entry – assessing the participants, gaps, opportunities and risks.
- Sector shaping – determining what factors will drive change accross a sector, and setting a strategy to achieve that.
- Estates – usually the second largest item on a balance sheet, and a real driver both of cost and opportunity.
- Digital technology – as an enabler for transformed ways of working, better decision making and performance improvement.
- Corporate governance – establishing the right structures in order to realise a strategic transformation.
- Transformation delivery – knowing what it actually takes to deliver a transformation is an essential component when planning strategic change.
- Regulatory frameworks – understanding the regulatory environment is essential when planning to maximise opportunities and minimize constraints.
- Assurance design – receiving assurance that all is well, or early warning if it’s not, is an essential part of any strategic transformation.
- Estates – usually the second largest item on a balance sheet, and a real driver both of cost and opportunity.
- Digital technology – as an enabler for transformed ways of working, better decision making and performance improvement.
- Corporate governance – establishing the right structures in order to realise a strategic transformation.
- Transformation delivery – knowing what it actually takes to deliver a transformation is an essential component when planning strategic change.
- Regulatory frameworks – understanding the regulatory environment is essential when planning to maximise opportunities and minimize constraints.
- Assurance design – receiving assurance that all is well, or early warning if it’s not, is an essential part of any strategic transformation.
TRANSFORMATION
TRANSFORMATION
We are tri-lingual, fluent in business, estates and technology. We are highly competent in all the areas, and tie all that together with an integrating appreciation of finance and culture change. We operate mainly at executive level, balancing the scenario planning and optioneering accross all these areas. Strong stakeholder management skills help foster buy-in and ownership and we ensure genuine client leadership all the way through the strategy development process.
We have been there and done it, and we help you make it happen.
Our key transformation capabilities include:
- Target operating model design – focusing on the transformation programme that will drive the change and on the end state operational solution.
- Business cases – these evolve from the first strategic concept through to the full business case detailing the option appraisal, market procurement approach, the financial model and funding and the management / delivery arrangements. It’s one thing having a good strategy and it’s entirely another matter to create a sensible business plan. This is one of our core strengths.
- Systems and services. We help clients develop strategies that establish effective systems and services in support of a wider transformation programme. Systems are major enablers of transformations and setting the strategy is vital.
- Systems implementation and oversight – we have delivered many systems programmes and we will set you up for success and can help with independent oversight too during your systems delivery.
- Procurement strategy – adopting an effective procurement strategy is very important, particularly with regard to risk transfers, bundling, competition design and general market engagement. Our expertise helps make your strategies come to life.
- Change management – we know to manage change, whether it’s working with people inside or external to an organisation. We help design effective communication strategies, staff engagement approaches and resource plans that all contribute to strategies that have traction. Training, stakeholder engagement, communication and transition planning are our core capabilities.
- Benefits realisation – a strategy is nothing without a benifits realisation plan and without effective monitoring and evaluation. We ensure that the benefits are defined and the metrics are in place before the transformation begins.
- Assurance – is key! It must be insightful, incisive and timely. It must not be a role task, but rather something that offers insight at key decision points and cuts straight through any tendancy towards group think.
- Oversight and trusted advisor – we provide support all the way through the strategic change journey – from the strategic design all the way to benefits realisation.
We are tri-lingual, fluent in business, estates and technology. We are highly competent in all the areas, and tie all that together with an integrating appreciation of finance and culture change. We operate mainly at executive level, balancing the scenario planning and optioneering accross all these areas. Strong stakeholder management skills help foster buy-in and ownership and we ensure genuine client leadership all the way through the strategy development process.
We have been there and done it, and we help you make it happen.
Our key transformation capabilities include:
- Target operating model design – focusing on the transformation programme that will drive the change and on the end state operational solution.
- Business cases – these evolve from the first strategic concept through to the full business case detailing the option appraisal, market procurement approach, the financial model and funding and the management / delivery arrangements. It’s one thing having a good strategy and it’s entirely another matter to create a sensible business plan. This is one of our core strengths.
- Systems and services. We help clients develop strategies that establish effective systems and services in support of a wider transformation programme. Systems are major enablers of transformations and setting the strategy is vital.
- Systems implementation and oversight – we have delivered many systems programmes and we will set you up for success and can help with independent oversight too during your systems delivery.
- Procurement strategy – adopting an effective procurement strategy is very important, particularly with regard to risk transfers, bundling, competition design and general market engagement. Our expertise helps make your strategies come to life.
- Change management – we know to manage change, whether it’s working with people inside or external to an organisation. We help design effective communication strategies, staff engagement approaches and resource plans that all contribute to strategies that have traction. Training, stakeholder engagement, communication and transition planning are our core capabilities.
- Benefits realisation – a strategy is nothing without a benifits realisation plan and without effective monitoring and evaluation. We ensure that the benefits are defined and the metrics are in place before the transformation begins.
- Assurance – is key! It must be insightful, incisive and timely. It must not be a role task, but rather something that offers insight at key decision points and cuts straight through any tendancy towards group think.
- Oversight and trusted advisor – we provide support all the way through the strategic change journey – from the strategic design all the way to benefits realisation.
RECOVERY
RECOVERY
Strategic transformation programmes can run into
difficulties. We get that. Once that happens we can provide a quick stock-take assessment, develop a recovery plan and even lead the recovery process.
difficulties. We get that. Once that happens we can provide a quick stock-take assessment, develop a recovery plan and even lead the recovery process.
Our capabilities are:
- Rapid stock take – involving reading material that you gave us, running same confidential 1-1 information-gathering sessions and possibly organising some assessment workshops. A stock-take usually just takes a few days of our time and we deliver an assessment report on the last day of fieldwork. This rapidly gives you independent insight with our communications for recovery.
- Recovery planning – we work with you, again working at pace, to establish a practical plan to re-set the programme and get it back on track. This may involve some tough chores about tuning, scope, funding and resourcing and we will facilitate solutions within those balanced objectives.
- Support – if you want, we can provide enduring oversight and support as the recovery gets underway. This can range from light-touch to hands-on.
- Project close – depending on the circumstances, it may be necessary to close out a troubled programme easily. We can help facilitate that decision and manage the process too.
Strategic transformation programmes can run into
difficulties. We get that. Once that happens we can provide a quick stock-take assessment, develop a recovery plan and even lead the recovery process.
difficulties. We get that. Once that happens we can provide a quick stock-take assessment, develop a recovery plan and even lead the recovery process.
Our capabilities are:
- Rapid stock take – involving reading material that you gave us, running same confidential 1-1 information-gathering sessions and possibly organising some assessment workshops. A stock-take usually just takes a few days of our time and we deliver an assessment report on the last day of fieldwork. This rapidly gives you independent insight with our communications for recovery.
- Recovery planning – we work with you, again working at pace, to establish a practical plan to re-set the programme and get it back on track. This may involve some tough chores about tuning, scope, funding and resourcing and we will facilitate solutions within those balanced objectives.
- Support – if you want, we can provide enduring oversight and support as the recovery gets underway. This can range from light-touch to hands-on.
- Project close – depending on the circumstances, it may be necessary to close out a troubled programme easily. We can help facilitate that decision and manage the process too.