Services

Three ways I can help

Engagements are typically three to twelve months, full or part time, delivered on a day rate or fixed scope. Most clients start with one of the areas below and find the others follow.

01

Interim Operational Leadership

A steady pair of hands in the seat, from week one.

Stepping into an operational leadership role at short notice to hold the line, lift performance and hand over a stronger function than the one I inherited.

  • Cover for a vacancy or gap at senior leadership and executive level
  • Rapid diagnostic of performance, people, process and risk in the first 30 days
  • Day-to-day ownership of service delivery, budgets and operational KPIs
  • Turnaround of underperforming functions and rebuilding management rhythm
  • Structured handover and succession planning for the permanent appointment
02

Change & Transformation

Programmes that finish, and changes that hold.

Designing and leading transformation from strategy through to embedded, day-to-day reality — including the unglamorous work of making people want the new way of working.

  • Target Operating Model design, business architecture and organisational redesign
  • Programme and portfolio leadership, including recovery of stalled programmes
  • Process re-engineering, cost reduction and efficiency programmes
  • Executive stakeholder engagement, governance and business cases
  • Benefits realisation tracking and post-implementation review
03

Product & Technology Design, Delivery and Implementation

Systems that land, get used, and pay back.

Owning the product and technology agenda from business design and vendor selection through to go-live, adoption and business-as-usual.

  • Product ownership and digital, product-led transformation
  • Microsoft Dynamics business design and agile delivery
  • Solution and integration design aligned to the operating model
  • Vendor selection, procurement and commercial management
  • Data migration, cutover planning, go-live, adoption and hypercare

Not sure which of these you need?

That is usually a sign the problem is worth a conversation first. Email me at z.watson@me.com or use the contact page.

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