Business Transformation Consultants

Our approach to business transformation

At Baringa, we believe that with a different business transformation approach, it’s possible to deliver change that has a lasting impact. It comes down to a focus on four key pillars:

Purposeful outcomes – Before launching the business transformation strategy, establish target outcomes that link to a clear purpose and vision. Make sure these are bought into enterprise-wide.
People – People are the biggest enablers of any programme, whether they’re business transformation consultants delivering the transformation or employees being impacted by it. So focus on and invest in their change journey upfront.
Delivery rigour – Be precise about the areas you want to control (eg scope and business case) and why these matter, but be flexible on how the delivery teams achieve their objectives.
Lasting impact – Before getting underway, think about life after transformation. Don’t make it an afterthought. Embed the programme and new ways of working/thinking into the business, ensuring it is equipped to realise the target benefits. There’s no point investing millions into business strategy & transformation consulting if no one adopts the outcome.

Baringa’s Transformation Framework integrates these four critical pillars to deliver purposeful outcomes with rigour and provide lasting impacts for the business and its people. The core services we provide are described in the following sections.

Transformation strategy and approach

Business transformation strategy and approach

Our business transformation consultants start by establishing a vision for your business transformation that is linked to corporate strategic purpose.

To do that, we:

Ensure full senior leadership alignment and support from the start
Define clear metrics linking transformation strategy to OKRs driving effective and aligned decision-making
Put people at the heart of business transformation and build the culture and capability to ensure success
Choose a flexible E2E agile transformation approach that is proven across industries and underpinned by experts focused on outcomes.

Transformation setup and mobilisation

Our business transformation consultants help you to ensure your transformation gets started in a way that provides a solid foundation for future delivery activities, giving the programme a sense of momentum and shared purpose from day 1.

To do that, we:

Create the vision

Work with all levels of your business to jointly build a vision that everyone buys into
Create a robust business case to serve as the North Star, central and visible throughout the programme lifecycle – not just to the finance teams.

Align strategies

Collaboratively develop and integrate your key strategies e.g. procurement, tech & data, workforce and ESG
Build your business target operating model and the roadmap to reach the target-state
Deliver a Transformation Leadership training programme to instil the right behaviours to drive successful change.

Set up business and programme architecture & operations

Make sure that your architecture is set up to deliver the business transformation approach successfully and support your operations
Set up your Intelligent Transformation Management Office to support and control the programme without limiting pace or flexibility.

Intelligent Transformation Management Office (TMO)

Our consultantscan help implement a Transformational Management Office (TMO) which is critical to drive consistency and efficiency, challenge thinking and to support delivery of the strategic vision and target outcomes across your portfolio/programme.

To do that, we:

Combine our key services to provide E2E delivery support via TMO roles embedded into your transformation programme
Set a strong, light and flexible ‘carbon fibre’ governance structure that is right for your portfolio or programme
Embed a lean team with a focus on driving insight from PMO operations
Implement tooling that enables data-driven insight, decision-making and a single-source of truth
Where appropriate, enable all this through Baringa’s Adaptive Programme & Portfolio Office (APO) ‘mixed-shore’ service.

Transformation capability building

Combining our geekiness and transformational capabilities, we help you to co-create an organisation with the right people in the right place at the right time.

To do that, we:

Analyse

Use our Transformation Capability Diagnostic to identify the skills, knowledge and behaviours required to deliver the transformation
Identify the teams or people to be deployed or developed
Gather insight on levers for change and affected areas.

Adapt

Develop commercial strategies and plans where transformational capabilities need to be procured externally
Create incentivisation for allocation of resources to the business transformation.

Sustain

Create a roadmap for internally building capability to sustain the business transformation approach
Deploy coaching via our Transformation Leadership training programme to instil the right behaviours.

Transformation assurance

We recognise that IT and change programmes are complex, high risk, with long timeframes, and significant consequences if delivery is delayed or fails to happen. We can provide a critical in assuring business transformations deliver a sustainable performance with the expected outcomes.

To do that, we:

Really understand the value and importance of delivering business transformation programmes on time, on budget, and on quality. Independent Programme Assurance is key to that delivery – with Baringa as a truly independent partner
Apply our flexible approach at any stage of the programme lifecycle, focused across the programme as a whole, or targeted on specific delivery areas
Believe in a proactive transformation assurance model that seeks to identify future risk areas rather than an assessment limited solely to current status
Tailor the depth and duration of the engagement to suit each client’s needs, ensuring minimal impact to programme plans and BAU activities
Assess, review, challenge, and engage with clients to discuss gaps, risks, issues, and opportunities to improve programme delivery
Provide targeted, pragmatic and deliverable recommendations to be actioned by the delivery teams.

Our Insights

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