Introduction to
Transformation

Project impact focuses on delivering the right solutions in agile projects. We do this by tailoring an organisational design and processes to have the right solutions deployed in agile projects. Our approach involves dedicated teams committed to delivering fast and sustained impact

If the leadership in your organisation is not equipped and part of the transformation, how will the rest of the stakeholders know what to do? To ensure this is not the case, we are uniting and enabling leaders across the organisation to take full ownership of spearheading the business transformation and inspire energetic conversations about the direction and change.

Engagement is essential to get all stakeholders onboard and align common interests. We achieve this by engaging the entire organisation and communicating effectively to build and sustain the importance of the transformation implementation.

Focusing on the project portfolio provides insights and tools into successfully executing strategy and ensuring that the desired impact is created through project portfolio management. It is useful to design a transformation project portfolio to target high-priority impact areas and ensure these are set up for success with clearly aligned ambitions, plans and ownership as well as impact follow-up and support.

We conduct an in-depth exploration of the key levers in the development system to contribute to the enhancement of enterprise value. This 10-week process involves diagnosing all parts of the development system. The output includes creating a well-structured business case and a change release plan.

We identify areas with innovation potential. These areas are characterised by significant customer problems that match core capabilities and corporate strategy. Our approach involves defining key innovation targets, determining unique processes and capabilities and setup needed to achieve targets.

We help you improve end-to-end efficiency and effectiveness through a Hybrid Agile execution engine, portfolio management and agile resource allocation (metered funding). By implementing this approach, we establish value streams that can work independently of each other.

Based on corporate strategy, we identify innovation challenges and orchestrate the creation of solutions. We facilitate selected pilots/projects through a rigorous validation process leading up to the first MVP launch in the market.

Innovation contains more uncertainty than most other activities. With our expertise in de-risking, we empower your organisation to navigate this uncertainty, ensuring a more strategic and successful approach to your innovation projects. Our methods for de-risking are rooted in MVP road maps and assumption-based testing.

The ability to understand user behaviour is the centrepiece of effective innovation and design thinking. By applying design thinking skills, your team will gain a deep understanding of problems before proposing solutions and focus more on desirability, feasibility and viability.

We help organisations establish architecture/modules and interface management that allow for efficient execution and release. This includes re-use, cost-out and rationalisation of products, variants and features.

From day one, we establish and run the transformation office while implementing a gradual recruitment, anchoring and handover to the established team.

We help your company develop a road map of initiatives with a point of departure in the current strategy. This includes designing a clear overarching structure, scoping each initiative and prioritising them based on their strategic value and ease of implementation.

We assist in developing business cases and establishing clear underlying assumptions. Through the design and execution of assumption tests, we create early validation of the most critical assumptions that underpin the business case. We consolidate the results into an overall transformation business case.

Through benchmarking against a best-practice maturity scale, we assess the maturity of all aspects of transformation excellence. This assessment results in a concrete proposal for areas of improvement with tangible suggestions for a road map of deliverables to improve towards the desired maturity level.

We provide end-to-end improvement in the maturity of your project portfolio management practices. This includes enhancing decision meeting flows, clarifying roles, responsibilities, and mandates, refining prioritisation criteria and processes as well as increasing project portfolio transparency while strengthening the link to the overall strategy.

We provide end-to-end improvement in the maturity of your capacity management practices. This includes collecting, aggregating and analysing resource data, refining resource allocation processes and forecasting resource needs.

We provide end-to-end improvement in the maturity of your governance and performance management practices related to transformation excellence. This includes tracking cost/benefit and strategic KPIs, reporting, escalating and cascading information as well as conducting decision forums.

We provide end-to-end improvement in the maturity of your project management practices and execution capabilities in the organisation. This includes developing project models, establishing standard ways of working and upskilling project participants.

A fact-based understanding of the situation internally and/or externally. Effective turnarounds are built on clearly defined plans, which, in turn, are made on a clear understanding of the situation and the factors responsible for it.

There are four overall value-creation levers. To quickly generate positive cash flow, net working capital (NWC) improvements should be prioritised first to free up much-needed cash. Then, cost reductions should be implemented to boost earnings. Additionally, commercial efforts to increase sales where possible. And finally, rebalancing the financing obligations with the forward-looking cash-generating capacity of the business.

Turnaround leadership encompasses strong change leadership and communication. Beyond intense ambition, decision-making and action, succeeding with turnarounds also demands strong change leadership, which needs to be applied throughout the organisation to ensure effective communication and realisation of desired results.

Being responsive to change is a key differentiator for many companies today in order to build better products and services, win customers over and ultimately stay on top of the competition. We help companies design every aspect of their organisation to achieve business agility – from optimising processes and refining organisational structures to enabling technologies and capabilities for leadership and innovation culture. We can start small, applying a bottom-up approach, but we strive for business agility at an enterprise level.

Following agile principles can help large complex transformation programmes deliver value to the business faster and stay close to the needs of the key stakeholders related to the transformation. We help companies establish a transformation management office to realise the desired impact.

Agile strategy execution can be essential to continuously ensure the strategy is relevant and that it realises the impact it set out to realise when it was designed. Following agile principles when executing a strategy can be essential in achieving success.

Product development and R&D are examples of clear-cut areas that benefit from agile principles. We help companies form agile delivery teams and the setup around them to develop better products and services, captivate customers and ultimately stay on top of the competition.