Service Summary

Creating the right structure for your organization or project.

Typical Benefits

  • 🧩 Holistic Business Design Expertise – Proven ability to align strategy, operations, and technology into a cohesive enterprise model.

  • 🧠 Strategic Thinker with Executional Rigor – Translates high-level strategy into actionable frameworks that drive real-world outcomes.

  • 🌍 Global Operational Insight – Brings a multi-market perspective from leading diverse businesses in the U.S., Europe, and Asia.

  • πŸ”„ Process Optimization Mastery – Skilled in identifying inefficiencies and redesigning workflows for maximum agility and scalability.

  • πŸ“ Experience Leading Complex Transformations – Directed turnarounds and reorganizations that restructured business functions end-to-end.

  • πŸ“Š Strong Financial and Analytical Acumen – Designs architecture models that are financially sound, performance-driven, and measurable.

  • 🀝 Cross-Functional Alignment – Facilitates collaboration across departments, ensuring business goals are supported by IT, HR, finance, and ops.

  • πŸš€ Future-Ready Architectures – Builds business models that support digital transformation, innovation, and evolving market demands.

  • 🧭 Governance and Risk Frameworks – Implements robust compliance structures to support sustainable growth and enterprise resilience.

  • 🧱 Track Record of Building From the Ground Up – From startups to multinational holdings, experienced in laying the architectural foundations for success.

Overview

  • Target & prioritise opportunities for improvement
  • Rapidly gain & build upon relevant knowledge and skills
  • Explore opportunities or challenges in areas of interest
  • Make more informed decisions, quickly, objectively & transparently
  • Meet or exceed goals and expectations in facilitated environments
  • Help to understand complexity
  • Reduce uncertainty in effectiveness of materials
  • Reduce disconnected approach, effort, delivery and bias.
  • Reduce causes of confusion around understanding of situational landscape
  • Reduce oppositional and obstructive behaviour and blockers
  • Not repeating the same mistakes over again
  • Reduces risk, time taken and costs in decision making
  • Reduce exposure from challenges against your position and ability
  • Reduce friction from misaligned communications and language
  • Alleviate capacity and skills based restraints

Our Requirements of You

Ensuring an executive sponsor from your organisation is allocated to the engagement, communicates the rationale behind it and signs off any ‘Terms of Reference’. * Assisting in all possible ways to ensure that a contract, (and confidentiality agreement where necessary) is in place, in advance of any work commencing. * Ensuring all support is in place and access is granted for all and any required data, processes, policies, meeting rooms and nominated resources to enable successful delivery of the engagement. * Ensuring sponsor availability within the agreed timeline, to resolve any significant issues that may impact the timely completion of the engagement, if not resolved in a timely manner.

Our Commitments to You

Provide support throughout service delivery using our World Class Professionals and Subject Matter Experts * Provide high quality deliverables in a timely manner and in line with agreements upon engagement with the client [Any changes to this will be mutually agreed in writing, in advance, between all involved parties] * Provide deep insights and genuine value-add in all possible areas throughout the engagement * Provide progress updates and feedback at regular intervals, agreed in advance or at the engagement ‘kick off session’ * Respect all personal and professional development of client team members throughout the engagement

Deliverables

  • πŸ—Ί Enterprise Architecture Blueprint – A comprehensive model aligning business strategy, capabilities, processes, and technology.

  • πŸ”„ Process & Capability Mapping – Visual maps of current and future-state business capabilities to identify gaps and optimization opportunities.

  • βš™οΈ Operating Model Design – Development of a scalable and agile structure to support strategic goals across functions and regions.

  • πŸ“Š Performance Measurement Framework – Definition of KPIs and metrics tied to business objectives for tracking transformation success.

  • 🧱 Target Operating State Design – A detailed model outlining how people, processes, and systems should interact in the ideal future state.

  • 🧠 Change Management Strategy – A tailored roadmap for communicating, training, and guiding teams through business transformation.

  • πŸ“ˆ Transformation Roadmap – A phased, actionable plan to evolve the organization’s architecture with timelines, dependencies, and milestones.

  • πŸ’» Technology Alignment Assessment – Analysis of existing tech stack vs. business goals with recommendations for integration or upgrades.

  • 🧩 Governance & Compliance Structures – Creation of frameworks to ensure architectural decisions align with risk, compliance, and regulatory standards.

  • 🀝 Cross-Functional Stakeholder Playbook – A collaborative engagement model to ensure alignment and communication across business units.

Available Service Engagement Models

*This service may be engaged via multiple engagement model options to provide maximum flexibility.

Network Units

Network Units enable complete flexibility around any engagement. When using Network Units, clients can swap and change delivery experts, scope and duration of engagements in a frictionless manner with very little notice, in line with the quantity of Network Units purchased. Network Units can be purchased in blocks of any size and at any time and are billed in full at point of purchase.

Project Based Engagement

Project based engagements operate on the basis of agreeing work and any outcomes or milestones for delivery in advance of commencement of any engagement in a ‘Statement of Work’. Prices are fixed for the agreed deliverables and should changes be required, these may incur changes to delivery costs. Payment for Project Based Engagements are agreed on a case-by-case basis, giving consideration to risk, contract value, client payment history, relationship longevity and duration.

Subscription Service

A HiveMind Subscription Service enables clients to flexibly engage with HiveMind Expert(s) in line with the subscription purchased. Subscriptions typically run for 12, 24 or 36 months or can also be arranged on a rolling 6 monthly basis. Subscriptions for 6 or 12 months are billed at the commencement of service, with billing for 24 or 36 month contracts taking place on the annual anniversary of subscription commencement.

Focus In On: Responsible for Business Architecture

New Areas of Value:

Optimise service efficiency and effectiveness

Provide strategic and operational business decision support

Evolving and governing the design of the business

Design and maintain the future roadmap of the business

Drive innovation for competitive advantage

Improve cross-business collaboration, service delivery and asset utilisation

Turn strategy into projects and / or programs

Ensure alignment and integration of architecture to business strategy

Improvements around:

Lack of ownership

Lack of access to relevant expertise

Lack of knowledge transfer

Lack of access to budget and investment in people

Getting a seat at the right table

Political and cultural resistance

Lack of strategic focus on architecture from the business