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We’re committed to helping our clients deliver their toughest transformation programmes successfully. All our people are experienced practitioners who can apply the hard-won experience that only comes from delivering transformational change for a living.
We never swamp you with a large team. Rather, our model is to provide only a few – often just one or two – very high calibre and highly experienced people into key programme leadership roles. In that capacity, they work as close knit part of your team, doing the work “with you, not to you” and producing results that have real ownership and buy-in. We’ll work side by side with you to set-up and deliver your programme in the right way – on time, in full and on budget. We’ll bring a deep understanding of the business and technology content, and will immerse ourselves in the specifics of your business. We don’t just bring a programme management cook book. We’re proud to have been involved in some of the most critical and complex transformative changes for some of the world’s most successful companies. Making these sorts of programmes successful can be hugely challenging, but it’s at the heart of what we do and enjoy.
We never swamp you with a large team. We’ll provide just a few high calibre and highly-experienced consultants – often just one or two - who know how to manage multidisciplinary, multimillion pound programmes, because they’ve done it many times before. Our people will slot into just the key programme leadership roles and, in that capacity, they’ll work as close knit part of your team.
We not only have the necessary project delivery experience and expertise, we also have the vital ability and attitude to quickly fit in and build a great working relationship with your team. We’re quick to learn and keen to work alongside you to deliver. We’ll fit in with your culture and ways of working, but we’ll also bring our insight and experience and not be afraid to challenge the status quo. Above all, we understand how to apply our experience to your business and to the situation, without taking a one-size-fits-all cookie cutter approach.
We’ll take a totally independent stance – focusing our expertise on supporting your agenda. We’ll combine the strategic nous your chief executive is looking for with the no nonsense, collaborative, roll-your-sleeves-up-and-get-stuck-in approach that wins over people at every level of the organisation. We get on with the people involved and we get on with the work that needs doing. You won’t find this combination of independence, seniority, experience and attitude elsewhere.
By their nature, big complex programmes are comparatively rare in any one part of an organisation – they just don’t come along that often. So, the first-hand experience and expertise needed to lead them is unlikely to be found in-house. This is where we come in. We’ll work side by side with you to deliver your programme in the right way – on time, in full and on budget. We’ll bring a deep understanding of business, technology, change management and programme management, establishing and delivering programmes in a controlled, efficient and predictable manner. We don’t just bring the programme management cook book. We understand how to balance that with pragmatism and judgement to keep it streamlined and avoid a valueless process bureaucracy. We’ll grapple with the people and business challenges as much as the management, process and technology challenges.
These kinds of programmes inevitably involve teams of tens or hundreds of people, multiple stakeholders, divisions, functions, geographies – a host of different constituents, all of which need coordinating and cajoling, empowering and encouraging. Many external suppliers may be involved, who need to help to account for delivery but also treated fairly – given real clarity on their role and scope, and a commercial framework that incentivises their success for a fair price. You need people with the experience to get the best outcomes under these conditions, balancing leadership and management to create an environment where the whole team can be successful. It’s about leading the project smoothly towards the agreed objectives, in a manner that is tuned-in to the culture of your organisation.
We’ve worked with many of the world’s leading companies on their most challenging transformation programmes – from early vision, strategy and business case, right through the hard yards of delivery. This gives us the hard-won experience and insight to help. We’re committed to helping our clients deliver their toughest transformation programmes successfully. Our people are all experienced practitioners who can apply the hard-won experience that only comes from delivering transformational change for a living. With our ‘low volume, high value’ model, we won’t overwhelm with large teams or take months to produce results. Typically, only using one or two highly experienced and high calibre people, we can setup your transformation programme for delivery success at the outset and then handover, or we can see it all the way through if you prefer. Above all, this is about sound judgement – doing enough analysis and drawing on our experience to help our clients make a confident call on what’s right for them. We work as close knit part of your team, doing the work “with you, not to you”, and getting to results that have real ownership and buy-in. To read more about the services we can provide to define and deliver the right change for your business, click here.
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Delivering critical, complex, transformational change is never just about formulaic project management – it takes deep experience of what it really takes to get the strategy, execution and leadership right. It needs people who can bring a deep understanding of the business, technology and people challenges, not just run a process. When you have a change that absolutely has to be right, come to us – and we’ll work side by side with you to make it a success.
Hadley Baldwin
Partner
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