Case Studies

Strategic Workforce Planning - Government Client

A recent project in support of a large government delivery programme (valued at £2.5bn).  This product was formed following a series of detailed workshops with c-suite executives and included:

  1.  Organisation Strategy & Workforce Demands - projected over the next 5 years.

  2.  The Business Case for Workforce Change - highlighting the impacts of failing to invest, versus positive change with investment.

  3.  Detailed Evaluation of Factors including but not limited to Capability & Skills, Market Provision, Staff-Contract Balance, Demographics and Diversity & Inclusion.

  4.  Resourcing:  A detailed 5 year strategy, supplemented by an immediate 18 month plan to provision resource (both staff and contract)

  5.  Reward:  A summary of current market expectations and trends - additional forward analytics leveraged to demonstrate expected future cost profiles for each department.

 6.  Development:  A summary of options for skills and capability development, profiling expected core capability areas with metrics to assess existing personnel.

Global Workforce Transformation & Business Change - Legal Sector

The first SAP implementation into a global law firm for 15 years - programme valued at $150m, enabling the firm to rapidly commercialise and improve profitability.

1. Governance: Delivery of a standardised approach to financial processes and policies, helping Regions to address inefficiencies

2. Data Driven Decisions: Delivery of a new reporting dashboard to Practice Group Leaders, ensuring rapid commercial forecasting

3. Organisation Design: Delivery of updated global operating model and team structures, re-configured to maximise SAP value realization

4. Firm Profit: Change delivery to schedule and within budget; supported a 7% increase in firm profit from £99m to £106m in 2018

5. Efficiencies: Leadership of change freeze process delivered $140m savings globally; unnecessary regional tech projects cancelled

6. Mergers & Acquisition: Effective change management support to Australian, Canadian and US combinations, adding $320m revenue

Commercial Transformation Programme - UK Defence Sector

Working with c-suite led a range of initiatives to rapidly restructure the organisation, improve efficiency, enhance capability and reduce group costs.

1.  Executive Consultation; partnered with Business Unit MDs & Group COO to develop strategy for organisation transformation

2.  Change Management; global delivery of stakeholder engagement, change impact assessments, comms and training

3.  Organisation Design; delivery of new Target Operating Model for global organisation of 1850 x employees, incl 400 x Engineers

4.  Costs Management: supported the delivery of £15m cash reserve, restructuring directly generated £10m of salary savings

5.  Restructuring: Restructuring of organisation ahead of ERP implementation, facilitating a £20m investment in growth

6.  Behavioural Change: Comprehensive change management support to Executives and Senior Leaders to transform behaviours

7.  Data Driven Insights: Established globally consistent IFS Finance & HR dashboards supporting data-driven decision making