We enable strategy through operating model design
FASTER, ITERATIVE DESIGN
INNOVATIVE DIGITAL DEMONSTRATION
HANDS ON SENIOR EXPERIENCE
DEEP ENGAGEMENT OF STAKEHOLDERS
Working together with your senior stakeholders and business experts we guide you in developing and aligning organisational capabilities to deliver exceptional business outcomes. Our approach is different from standard consulting. It is a next generation approach tuned to the needs of today's demanding business environment.
HIGH END
VISUALISATION
We produce creative, multi-dimensional graphical representations to capture potential solutions, spark innovation and focus understanding. These are lasting assets with real ongoing value.
ARCHITECTURE
DESIGN
Our designs are fully integrated and codified across all dimensions. They show how the whole system works and because they are built this way are sustainable blueprints, adaptable as the organisation evolves.
RAPID
PROTOTYPING
We test possible solutions early in the design process - not at the end of a project phase. Iterative design is at the heart of our approach, meaning we build all the elements concurrently, not in separate workstreams.
ADVANCED
COLLABORATION
We build collaborative space in your workplace and run the design process within that hub. These are powerful places for co-design and this is where things happen day to day - not just during key workshops or events.
SCENARIO
FOCUSED
We design around business outcomes, not by functional workstreams. This means we bring together cross-functional experts to work as one team on a business scenario end to end, then moving to the next.
DIGITAL
DEMONSTRATORS
Our demonstrators are dynamic and interactive. We use web browsers and apps, enabling viewing on desktop, tablet & smartphone. Synchronising updates is easy, ensuring blueprints are always up to date.
Why a new approach?
Today's complex business challenges require a far more dynamic approach to organisation design.
How we do it
Breakthrough vision
The most successful organisations are driven by an inspiring vision of the future. It sets ambition, inspires and engages the team. We begin by working with the executive team to understand and where necessary help shape a powerful picture and story about the future. This is the foundation for determining the required organisation capabiities and frames design.
Clear direction
Setting clear direction from the start is fundamental to success and we achieve this through a series of facilitated leadership workshops and injection of challenge and insight. We create environments that enable you to have the right conversations about the right things. To rethink and challenge fundamentals. Achieving clarity, alignment and commitment so that you are well positioned to inspire & engage the wider team.
A different way of working
We build collaborative design space in your environment and all of our activity is here. We don't work in back office project rooms. Whether we are working one to one, in small groups or larger workshops, this is where we do it. This enables your experts to jointly identify and understand problems and generate potential solutions. And together with our support and injection of best industry practice advice, create and commit to innovative target designs.
Concurrent design
We take a total architecture approach to the design. This means that capabilities, organisation structure and delivery processes are defined and configured in unison, rather than in separate streams of activity that are later brought together. This ensures all of the parts work together as they should do, in a fully integrated way. And because this approach is taken right from the start, potential costly rework is avoided as issues and design problems are surfaced and resolved early.
The power of visualisation
From the start, we build dynamic visual models of solutions. This enables stakeholders to clearly see and explore together how things might work in practice. Building these throughout the entire design process is a powerful focus for the team, ensuring seamless integration of the solution as detail is worked up. We also use digital techniques - for example web browser navigation and multi-layered imaging - to enable walk-throughs and drill down views of capabilities.
Just enough design
Early on we identify the most critical areas of the design and focus depth of attention to ensure these cornerstones of the solution work flawlessly. We don't document every last detail of the entire solution before moving into controlled live testing of designs. 80/20 rule!
Hothouse
Focused on key scenarios, this final tune-up deploys rapid cycles of detailed improvement in a controlled live environment. This approach greatly accelerates sustainable implementation because it irons out any potential operational issues and, at the same time, secures the commitment of delivery teams. And because this approach builds new skills and behaviours during the design process, implementation risk is dramatically reduced.
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