Win Challenges

Every business encounters challenges

External Factors

Many technology organisations find themselves in a position where external factors impact the progress of their performance. Understanding what these external factors are and how they need to be addressed, enables effective mitigation and expectation management.

  • Shadow IT – vendors selling directly to internal departments that use their own budget to procure technology with little involvement of the IT organisation.
  • Understanding Effort – leaders and managers being presented with a vision of nirvana and wanting it now, without understanding what’s really required to deliver.
  • Tool Centric Mindset – favourite technologies taken out of context without clarity on requirements and the complexity of technology implementation & integration.
  • Compliance Limitation – regulatory changes that impact the capability of your technology landscape, reshaping priorities & delivery potential.
  • Forced Migration – Vendor roadmaps and technology lifecycle planning are specifically designed to sustain vendor revenue and drive technology change at their pace.  

Change Opportunities

Alongside potential disruption to plans and threats to performance delivery which need managing, external factors also present opportunities for significant value gain.

  • Emerging Technology & Innovation – here lies the risk of not taking action. While competitors respond & new entrants emerge to disrupt. When others are moving faster this isn’t standing still, it’s going backwards.
  • Organisation Change – although disruption can come from both planned or unplanned changes across the organisation, this can be the opportunity to build new relationships & remove old barriers to progress.

Address these areas well and they will underpin market leadership and step change performance gain. An effective modern Technology Operating Model is the essential component for long-term sustained technology success.

Technology Risk Ownership & Innovation

Identifying and managing technology risk is both essential and another source of performance advantage. Left unmanaged technology risk can de-rail plans, putting teams on the back foot and making it very difficult to recover lost gains and reputation.

Identifying the source and nature of technology risks, communicating with those involved clearly outlining why risks exist, their impact on the overall organisation strategy and clearly linking it to the value gain each stakeholder is looking to achieve is the starting point.

Owning the technology risk conversation is about being ahead of the game and being prepared.

Modern technology teams also assess emerging technology and how it can benefit the organisation, fostering an understanding that true innovation doesn’t just come from external players developing new technology, but it comes from across the organisation underpinned by an effective Technology Operating Model.

Adrian worked on forming a conceptual view of our data stores and types of data, leading to insights on how these could be better aligned to organisational needs. This work ultimately led to the creation of two multi-million pound programmes that are transforming and improving Marie Curie's application and data architectures. I would recommend Adrian to any organisation looking to better understand how they might improve their IT architectures and business processes.
Ivan DelanyDirector of Information Technology, Marie Curie UK
I engaged Adrian to Project Manage a critical business transformation at ERIKS UK & Ireland. Adrian was tasked with engaging and advising the UK IT team and helping business and technology leaders creating a new organisational vision for Digital Technology to improve our customer experience and transforming operational effectiveness. Adrian completed the project on time and within budget but more importantly building support for the changes resulting from his assignment.
Steve WaughCEO, ERIKS UK & Ireland
Adrian worked at length on an operating model design programme for my team. Adrian's approach to this work was highly effective. He was innovative, insightful and thoughtful, bringing lots of great ideas and passion to the project. I'd highly recommend Adrian for an assignment. His combination of energy, thought leadership and commitment is highly valuable.
Philip AndersonCOO, Legal & General Retirement Institutional
An extremely intelligent and capable consultant. Adrian is a strategic thinker with vision and his broad business understanding and insightful thinking has made him someone I have valued as a Board member and colleague. A real champion of best practice, he also has the discipline and drive to make projects happen.
Paul MyerscoughGroup Managing Director, Pexion Group
It's rare to find a highly skilled consultant who can add value in so many areas of the business - especially sales and customer service. Adrian is one of those people! His contributions to James Walker's Business Services had a direct impact on growing our sales and supporting people.
Stephen MurphyCEO, Data Strategy LLC
Adrian is someone who I'd highly recommend. His ability to come into an organisation, add instant value and challenge ways of thinking for the good of the organisation is second to none. Operational efficiency paired with IT excellence - it's refreshing and very value adding. A great guy, always open to sharing his knowledge and experience. Thank you Adrian!
Daniel CritchleyChief Operating Officer, Conquip Engineering Group
There's no question of Adrian's exceptional talent and experience in the field of Operating Model design and implementation, and right from the start he's been instrumental in helping us shape our IT transformation. With an acute attention to detail that challenges the status quo, he's fuelled by an infectious enthusiasm that energises the teams in which he works. He's a pleasure to work with and I'm confident that we'll be calling upon his expertise once again in the near future.
Glynn TimminsGlobal IS Transformation Director, Smurfit Kappa plc
Adrian is a very accomplished technology professional who earns great respect from his clients and his very large network. He has extremely high integrity and is someone you can rely onto deliver. Adrian has a rare creative skill and that is to see technology for its business outcome rather than anything else. It give me great pleasure to recommend him
Malcolm LambellCIO Mentor, Transformation Partners
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