Transformation

Vision & Strategy Development

We help organisations and functional departments to create compelling Vision and Mission statements supported by strong strategic objectives to enable the vision.  The strategy is created through a combination of obtaining client feedback, market & macroeconomic insight and current situation analysis usually through operating model assessment. Our work involves key stakeholders for diverse insights and greater buy-in, ensuring flexibility in the strategy to adapt to changing circumstances. Strategic pillars are supported by agreed performance metrics and external feedback mechanisms crucial to enabling our clients to refine strategic actions over time.

Operating Model and Organisation Design

We support organisations to identifying the necessary changes needed to align the organisation with its strategic objectives. This involves redesigning processes, roles, and structures, and developing a comprehensive plan that includes clear steps, responsibilities, and timelines. We support the transition by creating a robust change management approach, including stakeholder communication, training, and support, to ensure a smooth transition and adoption of the new model.

Mergers & Acquisitions

We help organisations in both pre- and post-merger activities. We engage the market to create a pipeline of opportunity, support the market engagement, complete due diligence and close the deal. In addition, or as stand-alone, we can also support the onward integration, through the transition and transformation to maximise the acquisition value. As our team is made up of a variety of cross-functional experts we can draw in our procurement and supply chain expertise to realise synergies and our people experts to advise on the transition.  Our Transformation and Change teams can manage the portfolio of complexity and start to work on cultural alignment as part of an overall change programme.

Portfolio Management

We help organisations to define the right portfolio of change and transformation initiatives to deliver their strategic goals.  We help turn strategy into deliverable initiatives and then select and sequence these within the constraints the organisation has e.g. funding, risk, capability, dependencies and capacity to manage change.  Once the portfolio is defined, we help organisations build the organisation structures, capability, processes, tools and data – at portfolio and initiative level – that enable them to deliver the portfolio effectively and ensure strategic goals are realised.

Complex Delivery Management

We help organisations deliver their most complex and challenging transformation and change initiatives.  We work across the full end-to-end delivery life cycle: defining strategic objectives, shaping the transformation & change journey, mobilisation, leading delivery from start to finish and ensuring our client’s deliver the benefits to ensure sustainable impact.  We help clients select and utilise the most effective methodology, whether traditional waterfall or agile delivery – and provide capability at all scales from providing key roles to fielding full programme teams.

Change Management

We help clients address the people-related components of transformation to ensure the organisation is ready for change. Our capability includes cultural change, change impact assessment, business readiness, stakeholder engagement, communications, leadership effectiveness and managing expectations.  Using our deep experience and practical expertise we help organisations design and deliver the end-to-end change journey to increase delivery effectiveness and efficiency, support employee and stakeholder satisfaction and deliver speedier return-on-investment from change.

Programme Assurance & Turnaround

We help clients understand whether their complex transformation & change initiatives are set up for success in achieving the goals they have defined.  We assess a programme’s current state and likelihood of success using the deep experience and practical expertise of our own delivery leaders, together with our proven, leading-practice approach.  We provide practical insights and actionable, high-impact recommendations that help get delivery back-on-track. We work alongside our client’s teams to implement our recommendations when required to ensure successful turnaround is achieved.

Capability Development

Capability development helps organisations build and sustain capability to deliver strategic goals. World class capability development programmes can serve as a major attraction and retention enabler to secure the best talent.

We partner with organisation to understand their talent agenda to establish short and long term goals. Our services include the development of skills and competency frameworks and the creation of customised blended learning pathways. Our offerings include a range of operational technical learning programmes to support the professional disciplines of Finance, Digital, Sustainability, HR, Procurement, Supply Chain, Sales and Operations to a suite of behavioural pathways to support leadership and cultural change. Our online programmes of support are accessed via our 4C Learning Management Systems.