Working with the Bank’s change programme team and their advisors KPMG, the assignment was to ensure that the Bank became regulatory complaint within Regulator agreed timescales.

Sector: Public Sector – Not For Profit Roads Agency Assignment: Data analysis, creation of Performance Reviews and Annual Report, Newsletters and a UK-wide Conference Period: 2011 Background This organisation presents in-depth performance analysis to its external stakeholders on a quarterly basis. Due to staff movements during the early Spring of 2011, the final quarter and full year analysis for the …

Sector: Public Sector – Health Advisory Service Assignment: Inform and Develop Management Information Period: 2011 Background We worked with one of the upper tier senior leaders, an Associate Divisional Director responsible for Governance and Professional Standards where patient safety was paramount. The assignment involved undertaking data analysis on several aspects of the organisation’s activities to help inform and communicate new …

Executive Summary We took on a short 12-week assignment with this Public Sector Organisation in January 2010. The quality of our input resulted in our working with them for virtually 12 months ending in January 2011. The scope of our work was to act as “business managers” in support of a very specialist, highly effective, very busy team of five …

Sector: Recycled Materials Assignment: Assessment of the client’s existing strategy for growth immediately after completion of an extended launch phase Period: 2009-2010 Background This North American client had been trading on-line for a period of time retailing high value fashion items made from recycled materials. The introduction related to potential expansion into European markets through distribution agreements with major top-end …

Sector: Automotive Assignment: Assessment of the clients existing ‘Go to Market’ strategy Period: 2009 Background After testing a product concept in a minor fashion, the client had started a sales and marketing campaign to expand on the initial findings and to generate a revenue stream. The product concept was not mainstream to the organisation’s existing operational focus. Circumstances created a …

Sector: Software Development Assignment: Identification of Core Values, Common Core Purpose, & Vision & application to Sales & Marketing Period: 2008-2010 Background A well-established specialist software company with a global sales footprint wished to review its market positioning, degree of product differentiation & pricing in preparation for a major sales strategy. Assignment • To assess the organisation’s core values • …

Sector: Public Sector Assignment: Organisation of Back Office, Work Streams, Core Purpose & Project Priorities Period: 2010-2011 Background The highly specialist Team, working within a Directorate in one of the largest organisations in Scotland’s Public Sector, faced enormous challenges in delivering project outcomes against a background of structural change, extremely high volumes of work with regional, national, European & International …

Sector: Software Development Assignment: Values, Branding and Positioning for University Spin Out. Period: 2005 Background The Company had recently spun itself out from a major Scottish University research facility. Having successfully utilised its first round funding to establish a profitable trading platform, the client wished to enhance its marketability to potential second round institutional finance sources by strengthening the understanding …

Exec Summary This case study looks at the management styles adopted by an iconic British institution, The Royal Mail, with insights being provided from working ‘on the inside’. The case study is in two parts: Part One looks at the leadership and management issues encountered inside a sorting office in the three and a half week period running up to …