ARA consulting : Organisation Strategy and Change

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	Organisation Strategy and Change

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An organisational effectiveness review for a leading edge IT consultancy.

Following acquisitions, this growing company was encountering a number of internal stresses whose combined effect was to create some disfunctional behaviours - in different parts of the organisation - that were beginning to damage. We used our Insight diagnostic to evaluate data from all levels within the organisation and helped the management group to identify a number of interlinked interventions to improve the effectiveness of the business. Even the initial communication of the plans produced a significant positive response from the workforce who had been looking for top management for clear direction and leadership.

... and a review for an high profile public institution.

This client had recently completed a major capital investment programme in excess of £50m; the project had dominated the thinking of both top management and the organisation as a whole for over 5 years. With its completion, there was a pressing need for the management team to fill the vacuum and sense of anticlimax that ensued with a renewed, shared focus. We used Insight to help the team achieve consensus about the underlying operational and organisational problems that needed to be addressed. Via a two-day workshop the management team gained a renewed focus and identified a number of interlinked projects to re-establish the required energy and direction.

Providing long term organisational support.

As a result of legislative changes, this client has been required to hand over its functions to a different entity and will close. Consequently the organisation as a whole and the individual managers and staff were under considerable long term uncertainty and stress. Our role has been to support the individual managers through their extended career transition and also provide them with advice and support on best practice in the management of protracted closures.

We have now completed around twenty "Start Your Own Consultancy" workshops.

Our two day workshops have been attended by over a hundred senior executives including PLC directors and partners from professional practices. We use a novel self-assessment exercise to enable participants to understand how their strengths and weaknesses compare against those needed to become independent consultants. This information helps them to decide what complementary skills would be desirable for their venture and whether, for example, setting up a partnership might be preferable to being a sole trader. Those attending have found these aspects as valuable as the traditional content which covers topics such as business structure, marketing, managing risk, proposal writing, professional indemnity, data protection, record keeping and VAT.