I was watching a news story about the search for a missing child and was stunned at the statistic on missing children. The new reporter stated that with viewers overwhelmed with a high-profile missing child story and this particular missing child not being ‘as attractive’, and her parents without the resources, the chances of finding...
‘Your idea has a 3% chance of succeeding and we take 3 years to make a decision. do you still want to do it?’
On any given night over 200,000 families and individuals experience homelessness across England. This is has increased by more than 165% since 2010. Despite the government target to end homelessness by the end of this parliament, with the step cost of living rises, the experts agree this situation will get worse. Within the NAPpad...
‘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...
Business Operations Transformation and SOC 2 Operational Compliance
A Data Analytics start-up required a re-structuring of tech and non-tech operations to set themselves ready for a SOC 2 Type 2 audit and aim to receive an attestation report that leadership could then use in conversations with potential customers as well as investors. The challenge presented was to keep the organisation flat, without having...
Product Management Transformation and ISO-27001/SOC 2 Operational Compliance
A small Fintech required change in the way they were developing their products and solutions since moving from exclusively providing Open Banking Payments APIs, to adding to their portfolio front-end solutions in the form and shape of Mobile Payments Apps (integrated with their existing APIs), obviously supporting both iOS and Android platforms. At the same...
Sales transformation for hospitality staffing platform
The CEO needed an interim growth lead to support with a sales transformation in the build-up to peak demand season.
Sales transformation for hospitality staffing platform
The CEO needed an interim growth lead to support with a sales transformation in the build-up to peak demand season.
Head of Transformation Programme at DWP
It was recognised that many areas of technology within the DWP were no longer fit for purpose with a resulting major impact on productivity. An extensive programme of change was required. I was asked to lead this programme.
BI/MI at the University of Manchester
The University of Manchester had not invested in its BI/MI capability for a very long time. As a result, information for staff – both academic and operational, was of very poor quality, despite there being over 2000 reports in existence . In addition, the existing technology was incapable of any degree of sophisticated analysis or...
Digital Transformation at University of Manchester
Students and staff have high expectations of the technology that the university should provide. The reality was often disappointing. In particular, students had much better technology on their phones than the university was providing and staff costs were high through poor process and manual activity.
