Vodafone was a UK success story in Mobile Telecoms, and looked to expand its market reach Globally. In 1999, when I joined, the Global market expansion was indirectly progressed through partnership agreements with a German industrial conglomerate – Mannesmann. Every local Vodafone Mobile operator Partner. remained Independent and maintained its own Brand, Products and Commercial/operational...
Set up multi-year partnership with a client in a new industry vertical
Situation: A Partnership Deal had stalled between a global professional services firm and a global telecoms client as they were uncertain how our two organisations could work together effectively in a new domain (healthcare industry vertical) and what types of connected healthcare propositions we would jointly take to market. I received the call to help...
Delivery and Operations Manager and SaaS ERP implementation
Joined Satellite communication and teleport services as part of start-up management team. Reduce operations and delivery cost and increase profit.
Creating a Digitally Transformed Business Organisation
The CIO of a Fortune 500 firm needed to ensure that his aggressive multimillion dollar investment into digital transformation would transform the technically agnostic business organisation into an effective digitally fluent group. The pandemic had forced this leading organisation to suddenly invest heavily in new digital tools to ensure business owners could be effective and...
Created a leadership game for use in online and face-to-face leadership programmes
The client; a medium-sized telecoms startup, needed a serious game to include in their leadership programme.
IdeaAlchemy: Transforming Raw Ideas into Golden Opportunities
IdeaAlchemy brings concepts to life, creating from initial idea into a fully operational proof-of-concept model, using research-backed methodologies to validate your vision, mitigate risks, and unlock investor interest
Hosting a Face to Face meet up
Helping experts from the network organise and host a face to face meetup
‘We shot at you all day and there is no blood. It is a pleasure to work with you.’
I was tasked to step in to a major programme, (that was suffering ‘catastrophic commercial and delivery problems’), and to mobilise the set-up of a manufacturing production line and deployment capability. The issues involved: Over-commitments and subsequent failures. Lack of defined scope and direction. No commercial agreement in place resulting in spiralling costs and no...
Turnaround of Business Analysis teams to eradicate delays and improve quality of deliverables to end-customer
In two different organisations I have been brought in to ‘turnaround’ the business analysis / business analyst (BA) teams. On my arrival the BA teams were causing delays of at least 2-3 months to the delivery of change projects due to a lack of quality in analysis output, and the slow pace of work.
