Transformation consulting

Five essentials, each with the proof behind it

Business and process transformation, delivered through Microsoft technology. Business transformation is where we are strongest, and it is usually the door in. The others follow it.

Process transformation

Process before platform

Solution led, not platform led. We start from a standard process and the client's real variations, design to the level the work is actually done at, and configure the platform against that design. Instrument a process nobody has designed and you get precise measurements of chaos.

01

Design

A bank of standard processes, aligned to the APQC Process Classification Framework, adapted to the client rather than reinvented. Designed at L1 to L3 and modelled in BPMN 2.0, so work is measured rather than absorbed and every decision is recorded.

02

Configure

Process design mapped to Dynamics 365 functional areas, ready to configure against. The platform executes the design; it does not define it. Standard first, variation only where the business case says so.

03

Measure

Adoption and cycle time by process stage after go-live, captured inside the client's own tenant. The stages that drift are fixed at source, not papered over with training. Maturity assessed against CMMI.

The operating model is the deliverable. The platform is how it gets executed.

Measuring a live process against its design

Reported capacity and actual capacity are not the same thing, and the gap between them is where performance is lost.

Illustrative drift signature after go-live: create order 98 percent adopted, assign engineer 91 percent, capture site evidence 64 percent, close and invoice 58 percent. The dashboard is green; the last two stages are where the value leaks.

Capability

One capability map, three practice areas

Our focus is the people who operate between business transformation and technical delivery: senior, scarce and hybrid profiles.

Dynamics 365

  • Finance and Operations
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Customer Engagement
  • Functional and technical architecture
  • Senior functional consulting
  • Integration and engineering

Data and platform

  • Data architecture
  • Data engineering
  • Microsoft Fabric and Power BI
  • Azure data platforms
  • Infrastructure and platform services
  • Migration and modernisation

Azure, AI and engineering

  • Azure engineering
  • Integration
  • AI and Copilot
  • Power Platform
  • Cloud engineering
  • Specialist Microsoft engineering

Where we add most value: programme directors, solution and technical architects, senior functional consultants, and the hybrid functional and technical profiles most firms cannot find. Deployed on site, hybrid or remote, around the needs of the programme.

Domains

Where our depth actually sits

Because we have domain expertise, we know the products used in those domains. That is why our people arrive already knowing the shape of the problem.

Functional depth

  • Supply chain
    F&O. Operational, physical, our strongest work.
  • Work management and field service
    Scheduling, dispatch, what happens on site.
  • Finance
    F&O. Sophisticated accounting implementation.
  • Customer experience and sales
    CE. Service, case handling, pipeline.
  • Data and platform
    Reporting, analytics, the Azure platform.

Industry depth

  • Utilities
    Established. Multi year, regulated programmes.
  • Public sector
    Cleared delivery, to SC and NPPV3 standard.
  • PE backed portfolios
    A value creation plan and a fixed window.
  • Global commercial
    Multi site operations and the charity sector.

Transformation depth

  • Business case and vision
  • Operating model design
  • Process design at L1 to L3
    APQC aligned, BPMN 2.0
  • Programme direction and recovery
  • Measurement and adoption after go-live
  • Capability transfer
Supply chain and distribution
Utility networks
Manufacturing operations
Delivery

Onsite thinking, offshore cost advantage

Managed by an onshore UK team. An offshore component is assumed on any programme of size unless there is a security reason against it. What matters to the client is who is directing it.

Onshore, UK
  • Business engagement
  • Solution design
  • Programme direction
Offshore, Bangalore
  • Design support
  • Build and configuration
  • Test automation
Directed from the UK

Senior onshore leaders directing a lower cost offshore team is the combination that wins the work. Direction, design authority and the client relationship never leave the UK.

What you can buy

Six units of work, each with an outcome on it

Every one has a name, a deliverable and an end date, so it goes on a proposal as a line item rather than a rate.

01

Business case and vision

A quantified case for the change, and the direction to run it.

Board ready case

02

Process and solution design

Process design mapped to D365 functional areas, ready to configure against.

Configurable design set

03

Blended delivery squad

A named team. Onshore design and business engagement, offshore build.

Named team, defined sprint

04

Specialist roles

Domain plus platform plus data in one person. Contract or permanent.

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05

Pre-configured platforms

Industry templates that give you half of what you need before you start, because most businesses in a sector need roughly the same thing. Configured, not out of the box.

Half the configuration on day one

06

Long term capability building

A structured talent pipeline for predictable multi year demand, shaped per account.

Named pipeline, per account

AI in delivery

Applied, not announced

We are investing heavily in AI driven delivery, from business case data synthesis through to test coverage. It is early, everywhere, so we would rather show where it works than claim a position.

Business case

Data synthesis

The evidence behind an investment case pulled together in days, so the number arrives faster and holds up.

Design

Process against a standard

Draft process designs compared with the APQC standard and the client's variations, instead of a blank page.

Test

Generated coverage

The regression and acceptance tests that usually get cut when a programme runs late, generated and run.

Live

Delivery telemetry

What the system is actually doing after go-live, captured by D365 Usability Analytics inside the client's tenant, not what the status report says.

The same instrumentation that finds drift in a Diagnostic runs inside our own delivery.