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Driving the changes needed to realise value creation strategy

Driving the changes needed to realise value creation strategy Driving the changes needed to realise value creation strategy Driving the changes needed to realise value creation strategy Driving the changes needed to realise value creation strategy

Veteran professional friends, trusting in our united change delivery strengths, driving change, delivering the value you need

Driving the changes needed to realise value creation strategy

Driving the changes needed to realise value creation strategy Driving the changes needed to realise value creation strategy Driving the changes needed to realise value creation strategy Driving the changes needed to realise value creation strategy

Veteran professional friends, trusting in our united change delivery strengths, driving change, delivering the value you need

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ENGAGING MCS

Who we work with

We work with dynamic, typically mid-cap organisations focused on growth and value creation.  In most cases, organisations with Private Equity backing to prudently guide, support and enable growth ambition organically or via acquisition and integration.

The challenge we help to fix

Fast growing mid-cap organisations face the double challenge of sustaining the increasing pace and complexity of BAU operations, and in parallel, a very high demand for business and IT change relative to their BAU capacity and capabilities. 


These businesses are frequently of a scale that does not justify employing a dedicated change delivery leader or function, or where existing in-house capacity for change leadership is under significant strain. 


They typically have a very lean IT capability sized and resourced so that it is just about able to provide IT support to BAU, but without the capacity and capability to foresee and then orchestrate the delivery of the changes required to enable business value acceleration goals.

How we can help

We unite our individual capabilities to bridge the gap when a full-time, employed Change Director or CIO cant be justified, or we boost existing capacity and capability to deal with periods of exceptional change demand.


We draw on the experiences from 30-40 year careers and inject the change leadership capability to define, diagnose, design and deliver the business and IT change you require to achieve your value acceleration goals. Tightly engaged as part of your team with your interests at heart, minimising distraction to key in-house leadership capacity.


Always with a veteran change leader as the face and the core of the service, but that leader always drawing on and leveraging the complementary strengths of at least one other veteran, and typically more. We flex the blend as the need evolves, or to meet different needs as they emerge.

What we do

Thinking and acting as if in the shoes of your Change Director or CIO we deliver using short steps with the outcome of each step tightly defined.  


  • Confirming the context or cause; the challenge or opportunity; and diagnosing the change needed in response, tightly aligned to value creation strategy.
  • Agreeing principles and guide rails for how the change will be delivered, including plan to win and sustain hearts and minds.
  • Assessing and designing what capability, capacity, organisation and governance will be required to deliver. Evaluating in-house availability, existing partners and identifying gaps that need to be filled.
  • Ensuring all the required elements are in place, engaging capability to fill gaps and mobilising delivery so that it is aligned and set up for success.
  • Driving delivery, providing the change delivery experience to support governance and keep things moving in the best direction, driving resolution of issues and mitigation of risks.
  • Specifically for acquisitions, we provide deep-experience-based and practical due diligence. We focus on the target's IT estate; any business and IT change inflight, or planned; and the integration challenges and opportunities.

How we work

Firmly on your side of the table with your interests at heart, we are Independent, have very low overheads and are set up from the foundations to deliver more value for money. 


We are able to fill any executive-level change leadership gap, always seeking to make the optimum use of your in-house capacity, or by drawing on and helping you orchestrate your favoured suppliers, and/or the required functional, change capability and technology SMEs.


Always focused on outcomes and using veteran-level experience to more quickly shape hypothesis solutions that avoid the need to distract your already stretched resources to take "process consulting" steps not required in your particular case.


Practical, straight-talking and fit for purpose. 


Honesty and Integrity is everything to us.


Just the change leadership capacity that you require. We have no goal or targets to grow our own business, our goal is to be engaged on your side of the table and to help you grow your business not ours.

The benefit this offers you

Contrast to strong interim Change Directors:

  • Always with a change veteran in the lead, the service  always draws fractionally on the contrasting experience and opinions of at least one other, and therefore delivers a broader capability and experience mix than even the most seasoned solo interim. Our service and the capability deployed is tightly focused on near-term outcomes, the capability mix evolving as required to meet the specific demands of the next required outcome rather than risk drifting out of the sweet spot of an individual..

 

Contrast to reputable change consulting firms:

  • Engaging with you directly, firmly on your side of the table, we provide the change leadership that you need, independent from any party that may later supply change delivery capacity. This means we best source additional support required, unconstrained by the credentials and availability from any one supplier. We know a range of reputable suppliers, or we bring lots of experience to engage others fit for your specific purpose. We have your interests at heart. We can be free from any commercial ties and therefore not incentivised to contribute to any change delivery supplier sales objectives.

Contact Us

nigel@engagingmcs.com

engagingmcs.com

Points of View and Scenarios to download

A selection of our points of view, and some scenarios that aim to bring-to-life how we are able to help

Bespoke, blended fractional Change Delivery Leadership for the mid-cap PE backed firms (pdf)Download
Practical and cost-effective assessment of acquisition target IT function and change agenda. (pdf)Download

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