Optimising Your IT Organisation to Ignite Growth

An operating model connects organizational strategy to operations.

It is the mode of working an organisation implements in order to maximise the value delivered by its people and proposition. Operating model work is all about understanding the trades offs & making the tough choices.

The WHAT & the HOW matter equally. Getting either of these wrong is a sure-fire route to failure.

Stepping Up the Conversation

Success depends on the ability of your technology organisation to implement a technology eco-system that empowers every department across the organisation. But all too often the IT function is not represented adequately at board level and operates in a narrow technical space, rather than leading strategic conversations and enabling real business value.

Transforming IT’s core purpose is to help technology organisations transform their performance and standing across the wider organisation, to enhance the impact of technology in driving growth and delivering value through an optimised Technology Operating Model.

Collective Value

Digital Transformation success results from continued focus on defined outcomes that will deliver collective value for all stakeholders. The hard work starts upfront as you navigate the discussions around conflicting needs and different perspectives on the challenge and priority of solutions.

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Sustained Momentum

As your Digital Transformation gathers pace, external and internal influences will put pressure on contributing parties, diluting focus, and distracting them from the agreed goals & outcomes. Strong technology leadership is needed to sustain momentum and reassert the value of the goal through incremental gains and iterative value delivery.

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Strong Leadership. Deep Capability.
Earned Trust. Clear Communication.

Delivering the highest performance from your technology investments & people requires your IT function to uplift its game and work as technology partners across the wider organisation. We call these critical enablers the 4 Cornerstones of an effective Technology Operating Model.

Expertise
to deliver

Skills and capability within the IT organisation to transform the needs of the business into high-performing technology solutions, while planning & advising on future changes across technology.

Relationships
and communication

Developing partnerships across the organisation to ensure trust and understanding is commonplace, enabling the organisation to be confident technology requirements & outcomes will be delivered.

Knowledge
to represent

Understanding the requirements of your colleagues & being able to marry that with the overall strategic direction of your organisation to deliver a continually improving business technology platform.

Seat at the
board table

By nurturing trust and successfully delivering, the value and importance of your opinion and leadership on technology will enable your board to navigate and optimize the use of technology for the whole organisation.

Adrian worked on forming a conceptual view of our data stores and types of data, leading to insights on how these could be better aligned to organisational needs. This work ultimately led to the creation of two multi-million pound programmes that are transforming and improving Marie Curie's application and data architectures. I would recommend Adrian to any organisation looking to better understand how they might improve their IT architectures and business processes.
Ivan DelanyDirector of Information Technology, Marie Curie UK
I engaged Adrian to Project Manage a critical business transformation at ERIKS UK & Ireland. Adrian was tasked with engaging and advising the UK IT team and helping business and technology leaders creating a new organisational vision for Digital Technology to improve our customer experience and transforming operational effectiveness. Adrian completed the project on time and within budget but more importantly building support for the changes resulting from his assignment.
Steve WaughCEO, ERIKS UK & Ireland
Adrian worked at length on an operating model design programme for my team. Adrian's approach to this work was highly effective. He was innovative, insightful and thoughtful, bringing lots of great ideas and passion to the project. I'd highly recommend Adrian for an assignment. His combination of energy, thought leadership and commitment is highly valuable.
Philip AndersonCOO, Legal & General Retirement Institutional
An extremely intelligent and capable consultant. Adrian is a strategic thinker with vision and his broad business understanding and insightful thinking has made him someone I have valued as a Board member and colleague. A real champion of best practice, he also has the discipline and drive to make projects happen.
Paul MyerscoughGroup Managing Director, Pexion Group
It's rare to find a highly skilled consultant who can add value in so many areas of the business - especially sales and customer service. Adrian is one of those people! His contributions to James Walker's Business Services had a direct impact on growing our sales and supporting people.
Stephen MurphyCEO, Data Strategy LLC
Adrian is someone who I'd highly recommend. His ability to come into an organisation, add instant value and challenge ways of thinking for the good of the organisation is second to none. Operational efficiency paired with IT excellence - it's refreshing and very value adding. A great guy, always open to sharing his knowledge and experience. Thank you Adrian!
Daniel CritchleyChief Operating Officer, Conquip Engineering Group
There's no question of Adrian's exceptional talent and experience in the field of Operating Model design and implementation, and right from the start he's been instrumental in helping us shape our IT transformation. With an acute attention to detail that challenges the status quo, he's fuelled by an infectious enthusiasm that energises the teams in which he works. He's a pleasure to work with and I'm confident that we'll be calling upon his expertise once again in the near future.
Glynn TimminsGlobal IS Transformation Director, Smurfit Kappa plc
Adrian is a very accomplished technology professional who earns great respect from his clients and his very large network. He has extremely high integrity and is someone you can rely onto deliver. Adrian has a rare creative skill and that is to see technology for its business outcome rather than anything else. It give me great pleasure to recommend him
Malcolm LambellCIO Mentor, Transformation Partners
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