Close Brothers are one of the UK’s leading merchant banks. They had invested significantly in technology but were unable to implant solutions that had been built as they were not fit for purpose and as a result of this their confidence in their ability to fully digitise their business and safeguard their future as the...
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Strategic cyber security advisory that enhances day-to-day security while keeping costs down
The customer is responsible for all of the IT and cyber security strategy within their scale-up organisation. Within the constraints of budget they need to make the best possible decisions due to limited resource, and because some of the choices made at this stage will be foundational to the future of their company.
Cost Allocation Project
The company had poor cost allocations which meant managers were being charged for costs because budget responsibilities hadn’t been updated.
Transformation of Procurement in the Aviation Sector
Western EU CEO and CFO needed to re-establish Procurement is a post-Covid world where ALL the existing Procurement team left through redundancy
Improving customer success and service value by enhancing cross-business collaboration
A medium-size family enterprise with a leading position in their industrial sector is facing important issues in their approach to customers. The current board mainly composed by the second generation of sons and daugthers is following the traditional ‘only-product’ business management ways and methods established by the company’s founder. That view resulted in a strong...
Delivered a 10x increase in share price on the back of Shared service, ERP and Offshoring delivery
Appointed to drive the group towards shared services and to transform the people and technology capability in IT to underpin growth into new markets and revenue streams
Chief Operating Officer for a Private Equity business that was bought for £400m and sold for £1bn
Appointed to transform the entire Operational side of the business in order take this from a problem area to one of competitive advantage. Having excellent IT, customer service and security was essential as the company became regulated and we drove towards a sale of the business.
Changed CIO direction enabling true transformation
Given the popularity of the cloud, CIO wanted to build a business case/RFP for migrating all of the IT portfolio to the cloud. They called for a few month consulting engagement where we would do initial data collection, build business case for migration to cloud based on IT cost estimates and prepare and RFP for...
Too Much Innovation? How to Prune an Overgrown Innovation Portfolio
A Division of a large, multinational chemical company developed an innovation portfolio that proved too large to digest. Although the projects contained the potential to more than double the division’s turnover in three to five years, there were simply too many projects and not enough resources. Expanding workloads did not work. Assigning more projects resulted...
Transitioning From Failure to Success : Financial Services
A Global Financial Services organisation had a regulatory mandated system integration programme running for 2 years with no tangible outcomes. The programme was over budget and in danger of risking the organisation’s presence in the US market. The operational impact resulted in part of the organisation heading for regulatory standards enforcement, presenting a significant challenge...
