Defining what creates business value and understanding how to capture it

We work with executive leadership teams to ensure they have a shared vision of what they are trying to achieve in terms of purpose and performance. Collective leadership alignment on an organisations north star, its reason for existing (over and above delivering shareholder returns) and clarity on its distinctive value proposition are critical foundation elements for a leadership team to work towards a common goal.

We work with executive leadership teams to ensure they have a shared vision of what they are trying to achieve in terms of purpose and performance. Collective leadership alignment on an organisations north star, its reason for existing (over and above delivering shareholder returns) and clarity on its distinctive value proposition are critical foundation elements for a leadership team to work towards a common goal.

We put a great deal of time and effort into taking our clients leadership teams on the journey with us so that they fully believe in and own the design and implementation.

Our approach is to work through a holistic diagnostic methodology intended to understand our client’s internal and external realities. We will often do this by facilitating a highly collaborative stakeholder input process, via a range of engagement channels, to solicit a diverse set of perspectives. The quality of our subsequent breakthrough analysis, insights and recommendations comes from bringing sector specific thought leadership on how our clients benchmark against peers and evaluating how they are positioned to deal with future market trends.

Our strategy work will often focus on a few key questions:

We support client transformations across entire organizations, regions, and business functions. The aim has always been to deliver a step change in performance in support of delivering the overall strategy. Whereas a lot of our strategy work is top down our transformation programmes will often be as much about winning over hearts and minds as they are about changing organisation structures, processes, or systems. Thus, we firmly believe in taking a much more bottoms up approach where we are committed to engaging the front line, as they are often the ones closest to the reality of the business and often an untapped source of innovative solutions.

We have a great track record in bringing the breadth of capabilities and expertise required to support deliver sustained transformations. If your organisation is falling short of its full potential our approach, people and partnering philosophy can help you achieve your strategic ambitions.

Increasingly our clients are recognising the value of adopting agile ways of working that allow them to adapt quickly, efficiently, and effectively to the changing conditions around them, this has particularly been the case during the COVID pandemic. We support clients through their agile journey from educating leadership of the principles of agile, to coaching teams in the use of agile methodologies and tools, to optimising organisation structures for agility by delayering the hierarchy and enacting agile processes at scale.

For leadership this journey often requires changes to mindset and behaviors. This is as much about recognising the imperative to set bold ambitions, begin the journey through rapid experiments where learning can happen quickly and then move at pace where the are opportunities to be seized.

Determining how an organisation operates to fulfil the strategy, including the organisation structure, people, processes and technology

More and more of our clients are taking a cross functional and multi-disciplinary approach to delivering a step change in performance across their organisations and this is often only possible through designing and deploying an effective operating model. An operating model establishes how an organisation functions to deliver the strategy.