Business Management & Operations
We can provide Senior Management services to address your business needs working alongside your existing management team to effect the necessary changes. We are happy to take P&L accountability and to work with you to develop the action plans and execution plans necessary for the success of the business. Whether it is an interim role in a stable business or a role required to effect change we have the experience to assist.
It can be difficult to effect change within the current structures and teams. The emotional investment of the exisitng team in the business and the potential relationship challenges that can follow can result in an undermining of the action plans and a watering down of their effectiveness. This is where we can assist. Independant and experienced resources capable of leading the necessary action and any negotiations with staff or representative organisations allowing the existing team to participate in the actions but also to maintain daily relationships and business operations. We support the embedding of the changes within the business leading to the outcomes forming a 'business as usual' culture.
Programme & Project Delivery
Provision of Programme and Project Managment individuals or teams to deliver your works. Experience across a range of high profile and challenging programmes and projects and multiple disciplines. Particluar experience in underperforming programmes and projects and turnarounds. This allows us to quickly identify the issues and the danger signs/trends and to take action to address the issues and to bring the programme back in line. On-time and to budget delivery are the primary goals.
It can be easy for programme slippage and cost overruns to creep into a project, particularly in the early phases. The issues can have embedded themselves within the programme before it is even identified. Robust challenge and review, to identify inconsistencies, to gain confidence in the reporting can assist with this. Where issues exist they can also be under-reported as it isn't always appropriate to assume that the remainder of the programme will run to plan. To regain control and address such issues needs different approaches and that is where our experience delivers benefits. Doing things differently and challenging the status quo needs experience.
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Our experienced team supports you with interim resources and services.
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Helping you bring all the vital pieces of your business and projects together successfully
Our experienced team supports you with interim resources and services.
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Interim Secondments
Looking for the right resource to fill that short-term or critical role while you source a long term solution? We can supply the right individual with wide ranging experience. Be it a business, project or engineering role we can provide a safe pair of hands to give you the support you need and confidence that allows you to concentrate on longer term arrangements.
There can be challenges when using interm resources with getting 'buy in' to your company culture and maintaining a consistent corporate face externally. We believe our associate model overcomes this by using individuals who have vast experience of doing just this. We are not just a resource from a large corporate, already constrained by that corporate culture and then hired out to another company. We are flexible and adaptable allowing us to take on your 'corporate branding' and to present this seamlessly to your customers and the wider industry. We pride ourselves on becoming part of your organisation indescernible from your in-house team.
Engineering Services
Strong background in engineering disciplines particularly rail related. We can bring together many decades of experience in particular fields of engineering including Signalling, Systems, OLE, Telcommunications, Rolling Stock, Assurance and verification and Safety covering Development, Design, Site works, Testing, Engineering Management and Training.
We understand the frustration that engineering can bring to companies and projects. We appreciate that engineering has a purpose and fits into and contributes to the overall business. We can use our experience to ensure that engineering focuses on the outcomes necessary to make the business a success and not just as 'black art' engineering for engineering sake. We have the depth of engineering experience to aid the development and delivery of solutions to problems, to guide engineering departments and focus on the critical outcomes needed to ensure the delivery of a correctly engineered solution doesn't become a blocker to success.
Investigations
Collective decades of experience across a wide range of industry sectors has allowed us to develop a deep understanding of issues and the causes. We can use this experience to lead or suport your investigations into incidents and/or failures and to provide you with detailed reports, together with action and improvement plans, which we can also aid you with the implementation of. We also have experience gained from an involvement in major public inquiries with high political and public exposure.
It is vital that when an incident or failure occurs that an indepth and detailed investigation is undertaken to establish causes and effects and to allow lessons to be learnt and corrective action taken. Basing our approach on good practice such as RSSB guidance we can lead or work as part of your own investigation team, complementing their skills or working independently, providing an impartial expert evidence gathering and review service. We will seek to identify both immediate and underlying causes and address not just the incident but also management actions upto, during and after such an incident together with supporting procedures, maintenance activities and failures of a similiar nature to ensure a wide ranging, in depth and robust set of conclusions, actions and lessons learnt.
Commercial disputes and legal action
Having such an in depth level of expertise available we have experienced many different commercial and legal situations. Given our specialisation on problem projects this has given us a deep understanding of commercial and legal issues and approaches needed to successfully undertake such claims management and actions. We can support your commercial and legal teams with forensic assessment and analysis of the true contractual position with regard to the both delivery and engineering requirements and what was actually contracted to be delivered.
While we all believe that we have an understanding of the contract deliverables and commercial needs, disputes still arise very often as a result of conflicting interpretations of the contract terms and requirements. We have previously spent time embedded with clients teams, including within their legal representatives offices, undertaking analysis of contract documents, correspondence, programmes, deliverables and assessing opposing witness statements, providing support witness evidence and case studies in order to both defend claims and also prosecute claims or counter claims.