From Surviving to Thriving – Dealing with a Burning Platform – Part 1

An interview with Shared Services Guru, Dermot Toberty In this first of two recordings with shared services guru – Dermot Toberty, he shares his experience in transforming the Finance and HR functions across the Royal Mail Group. Dermot is joined by our Managing Director – Ian Jones. Dermot talks about the work undertaken to standardise, […]

Leading in a Crisis – The Highlights

Following the two videos posted during April 2020 on ‘Leading through a Crisis’. we have assembled a much shorter version drawing out the key highlights. In this version, our Managing Director, Ian Jones, and Senior Associate, Euan McMurdo, explore the golden rules of business continuity planning and lessons learnt from personal experiences of leading in […]

Leading Through a Crisis: A Personal Perspective

During these times of unprecedented change, our Managing Director, Ian Jones, talks with Euan McMurdo, a Senior Associate at Devereaux Kelly Associates, about his experience in leading business continuity planning and ‘keeping the show on the road’ during times of crisis. Euan has extensive experience, working at a senior executive level in global and FTSE100 […]

Building planes in the sky – transforming a global icon!

Our MD – Ian Jones – had the opportunity to share his story of Royal Mail’s transformation journey at the latest gathering of the Intelligent Projects Forum in January 2020, kindly hosted by Peter Mayer and the team at Pelicam Assured Delivery. It was a great opportunity to reflect on the multi-faceted and award-winning modernisation […]

Delivering Successful Transformation

Is your organisation ready for the unprecedented challenges and opportunities now faced in this complex and rapidly changing world?

Before you embark on your next wave of transformative change, has your organisation taken time out to truly learn from the past? If so, what lessons will you carry...

Delivering Successful Transformation

McKinsey recently reported that less than 30% of transformation programmes succeed, with employee resistance (39%) and management behaviour (33%) highlighted as the main root causes. To reinforce this, a recent study by SchellingPoint of over 450 projects globally, highlighted that just 8% of projects delivered to time, cost and quality. The direct and indirect impact on customers, employees, shareholders and other stakeholders is inordinate! […]

The challenges faced on the journey of transformation

“Increasingly now, we recognise that change is a constant, the world we’re operating in, the world we’re living in, change is everywhere and as leaders, we need to grasp that”. In this exclusive preview video, ahead of the Business Transformation Network’s ‘Excellence in Leadership 2019’ conference, our MD – Ian Jones – provides his perspective […]

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