Selected work

Case studies

A cross-section of work across national regulators, statutory bodies and arm's-length organisations. Each example shows a different shape of challenge: operating model design, service turnaround, technology delivery and large-scale efficiency programmes.

01 · National regulator

A Target Operating Model the Executive actually approved

Duplicated work across directorates, unclear accountability and rising cost pressure, with no shared view of how the organisation should operate.

Key contributions

  • •Ran a whole-organisation diagnostic across people, process, technology and governance
  • •Facilitated Executive workshops to agree design principles and future state capabilities
  • •Designed the business architecture and Target Operating Model, with a phased roadmap
  • •Built the business case, benefits map and governance to hold delivery to account

Outcome

  • •Executive-approved operating model adopted as the organisation's change blueprint
  • •Duplicated activity removed across directorates and accountability clarified
  • •Multi-year roadmap sequenced by value, risk and delivery capacity
02 · Regulatory / statutory body

Case management redesign that lifted productivity by almost 80%

An operational casework function was missing statutory timescales, with backlogs, inconsistent decisions and no prospect of extra headcount.

Key contributions

  • •Mapped current and future state processes end to end with the operational teams
  • •Re-engineered triage, allocation and decision points to remove hand-offs and rework
  • •Introduced a performance framework of KPIs, MI and a weekly management rhythm
  • •Coached managers through the change so the new way of working stuck

Outcome

  • •Productivity increased by up to 75-80% with no increase in staffing
  • •Backlogs cleared and statutory timescales met consistently
  • •Decision quality and consistency improved through standardised practice
03 · Arm's-length body

A Microsoft Dynamics implementation that people actually used

A legacy case system no longer supported the service, and a previous technology effort had stalled without clear business ownership.

Key contributions

  • •Took product ownership of the business design, working alongside the delivery team
  • •Translated the operating model into requirements, journeys and solution design
  • •Managed vendor selection, commercial arrangements and delivery assurance
  • •Planned data migration, cutover, training, adoption and hypercare

Outcome

  • •End-to-end Dynamics case management delivered and embedded into business as usual
  • •Manual workarounds retired and reporting available to leadership for the first time
  • •High user adoption sustained after go-live through structured support
04 · Professional regulator

£3m in efficiencies, returned to fee payers

Cost per case was rising and fees charged to registrants were under scrutiny from both the board and the sponsoring department.

Key contributions

  • •Analysed the end-to-end value chain to isolate the real cost drivers
  • •Redesigned policy and process where the cost sat, not where it was assumed to sit
  • •Built a benefits realisation framework with tracked, cashable savings
  • •Reported progress into Executive and departmental governance throughout

Outcome

  • •More than £3m in efficiencies delivered, enabling a fee reduction for over 100,000 licensed individuals
  • •Approximately £190k of recurring annual cashable savings from policy optimisation
  • •Evidence-based reporting that gave the board confidence in the numbers

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