If you're concerned about a current project, we will identify the steps needed to de-risk delivery and improve your chances of success within days. Because of our broad project delivery experience, we're often engaged by senior management to give an independent verdict on a project's health. They find this particularly useful when they may be too tied up in day-to-day operational issues to take a step back and look at the fundamentals.

"We've had to pull our commodity futures trading system for a new electronic exchange; this is a disaster waiting to happen that I haven't got time to fix right now." — CIO, Global Energy Trader

Our client had lost confidence in their existing trading system vendor. After a thorough review of the marketplace, we concluded the incumbent was still their best option. We ensured key defects were resolved, rebuilt client confidence, and successfully rolled out the trading system in time for when electronic market volumes took off. More

“We've announced a public date to launch a new business but the overall programme is behind schedule and doesn't look likely to deliver in time" — Business Manager, Blue Chip Retailer

Teams were under immense pressure to succeed but were dispirited due to the lack of clear strategic leadership and focus. We advised management to externalise their critical deadlines and using these dates, motivated the teams to develop a realistic but achievable plan to manage them by. The programme delivered to the promised deadline and the business launched successfully. More

"I don't have a proper handle on my global workforce and that's making M&A very difficult." — CFO, Global Hedge Fund

Our client had four Human Resource (HR) systems, making a consistent view of HR very difficult. Previous attempts to rollout a single, global PeopleSoft system had failed. Twice. We devised an initial solution to bring basic HR information into PeopleSoft on a daily basis, so that the quality of information available for M&A was greatly improved. We then incrementally rolled out PeopleSoft region by region, standardising employee policies and reducing the administrative workload of HR. More

"We're demutualising to become a bank. We're getting close to the agreed deadline but haven't finalised our share register " — Business Manager, UK Building Society

The building society was undergoing demutualisation and needed an accurate share register within a tight 12-week deadline to comply with financial regulations. The process needed to be executed to the highest level of accuracy to minimise the impact of correcting share mis-allocations later and resultant negative PR for the new bank. More