Operations and transformation strategy
Turning your strategic goals into a reality. Setting the business transformation agenda to uncover the hidden value in your operations.
Operations and transformation strategy
We start from your strategic goals and find the meaningful action that will make them a reality. We set the business transformation agenda and make sure everyone is delivering on the right things. This way, we uncover the hidden value in your operations.
Cost optimisation
We rally our industry experts to help you tackle tricky cost challenges in the short-term, and create a cost-conscious culture that will support your sustainability for years to come.
To do that, we:
- create organisational, operational, and financial baselines
- benchmark your performance against other organisations
- combine data with our industry expertise to assess new opportunities
- help leaders empower and engage people through the change
- reinforce internal capabilities to sustain a cost-conscious culture.
Transformation strategy and execution
Successful transformation outcomes call for a mix of industry, people, process and systems expertise. We excel at all, and deliver in a way that fosters your own internal capabilities.
To do that we:
- focus on benefits case management and sustainable realisation, aligned to business strategy
- bring a truly independent view to choosing and managing vendors and partners
- establish strong but flexible governance, managed by an intelligent transformation management office (TMO)
- deliver across the lifecycle, tailoring our frameworks around your business
- coach your transformation teams and leaders to be successful.
Organisational transformation
Change that reaches into every corner of your organisation. Running on agile transformation methodologies for maximum results.
Organisational transformation
We envision, plan and deliver change that reaches into every corner of your organisation. We look at your teams, processes, and portfolio in sync, and run the transformation programme on agile methodologies for maximum results.
Operating model and organisational design
We’ll translate your objectives into an operating model that works now and well into the future. At a high level, we look at your organisational structure, business processes, and system and data architecture. And then make sure you have the right governance, capabilities and culture to hit your objectives. This includes:
- your vision and purpose
- design principles and outcomes
- measures and controls
- governance and decision-making
- process effectiveness
- skills and structures
- behaviour and culture
- technology and data
- designing an agile operating model
- creating organisation transformation roadmaps.
Agile change delivery
Over the years, we’ve seen the power of agile project methodologies in getting transformative results. We run our programmes using these approaches to maximise the impact you achieve. You’ll benefit from our experience in:
- structuring large agile transformation programmes
- optimising delivery mechanisms
- agile ceremonies and ways of working
- reporting and measures
- agile tooling.
Governance and portfolio management
We’ll keep you in the picture with a full view of where the value is being delivered across your change portfolio. This helps you prioritise resources effectively, and correct course or reprioritise any outcomes that aren’t on track. We’ll help you with:
- your strategic vision, and aligning it to outcomes
- measuring the value of your portfolio
- lean portfolio management and governance
- agile funding and resource management.
Operational excellence
Creating teams and operations that perform exceptionally in the long-term, so that everything works to serve your strategic goals.
Operational excellence
We’ll help you create teams and operations that perform exceptionally so everything works to serve your strategic goals. We take a long-term view that sets you up for sustainable success over many years.
End-to-end process optimisation
We help you take an end-to-end, systemic view of your organisation’s key processes with operational excellence, process mining and intelligent automation technologies. Then, we redesign your process to deliver better customer outcomes for less effort. This includes:
- value stream mapping
- analysing demand
- intelligent automation
- future state operational design
- test and learn change
- cost reduction
- risk and compliance uplift
- process mining and analytics
- process transformation.
Team ways of working
A more engaging work environment helps your people thrive so they can ultimately deliver better value for customers and the business. To help you create and run those high-performing teams, we’ll look at:
- daily huddles and continuous improvement ways of working
- visual management
- measures and targets
- team-based problem solving
- managing capacity
- leadership mindset and behaviours.
Again and again
In the spirit of continuous improvement, your transformation work is never done, and there are always more benefits to unlock. We’ll help shift the culture of your organisation so you can keep the momentum up and carry on delivering value. We can talk about:
- aligning your strategy
- setting up improvement centres of excellence (CoE)
- building your operational excellence capability
- leadership coaching
- comms and engagement
- managing and realising benefits.
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