What I offer
Strategy Development and Programme Planning
I can help you create an effective strategy and operationalise it
- Strategic analysis e.g. white papers / POV
- Strategy workshops
- 'T' Planning / Target Operating Models
- Operational Planning
- Transformation programme and project planning
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Business Growth
Honest and practical advice on scaling up your business
- Mentoring
- Scale Up Planning and evaluation
- Chief of Staff Services
- Interim Operations or Marketing Management
- Pitch Deck critique and development
- Marketing
- Scenario testing
Programme and Project Management Services
- Getting control of projects and tasks
Setting up a programme office and governance to manage workload/ resources effectively
- Scoping and planning programmes and projects to work on the right things
- Project Team Mentoring to build capability
- Project Reviews and rescuing failing projects
Marketing Consultancy
- Developing an Marketing Strategy
- Marketing Planning - organising the work
- Creating an effective Customer Journey
- Managing Strategic Communications
- Selecting/briefing marketing agencies
Chief of Staff Services
Chief of Staff services on either a full time or fractional basis.
-Strategic Planning
-Communication and Coordination
-Decision Support
-Operational Efficiency
-Project Management
-Executive Support
-Organisational Alignment
-Change Management
-Whatever else needs doing!
Writing and Editing
I write articles and white papers e.g. Digital Resilience, Trustable Software for ISRS that create unique and differentiating points of view on complex subjects.
I also edit work which is complex in nature to make more punchy and easier to read as a layman.
Experiences
Strategy Development
I help businesses build better strategies
Business Model for Catastrophe Re-Insurance ( "uninsurable events")
Funding options and TOM for Icelandic software company
Commercial opportunities for Galileo space project
E-Trading markets in petrochemicals
Corporate Finance / M&A Due Diligence
Strategic Marketing and Growth
Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (Chartered Marketer)
FormerChair of CIM Levitt Group
Marketing Manager - ICI Films
Marketing consultancy projects in manufacturing, software, construction, medicine, hospitality, financial services
NPD in Photographic and Printing markets
Running Successful Programmes and Projects
Setting up and running PMO (Programme Management Office) for Airbus, TXU Energi
Project manager for customer contact and workflow system (Barclays)
Project manager for customer order and planning systems
Scoping design for workflow systems (EMA)
Change and Transformation
Organisational Transformation projects involving major cultural and organisational change
Vision and values
Target Operating Model
Organisational Redesign
Rebranding (M&A)
Operational / Process Improvement
Finance and Committee process improvement for EU Agency
Improving New Product Development processes (energy company)
Redesigning regulatory mortgage processes (Barclays)
Operational improvement in customer service (Barclays)
Improving customer billing operations (Sky)
Strategy and Resilience Thinking
Senior Fellow at the Institute for Strategy, Resilience and Security at UCL led by Lord Reid.
Author of white papers on Trustable Software, Digital Resilience and Preventive Health.
Guest Lecturer on MBA programme at UCL
Seven Heads blog on Substack
Preventive Healthcare
I have extensive consulting experience in healthcare consulting with a particular interest in preventive healthcare and why preventive healthcare is more difficult to deliver in practice.
