Category: Change Management
On demand webinar: Six questions to challenge your approach and deliver successful transformation
George Tomlin, Principal Consultant, discusses topics including ‘Business Process Intelligence’, bridging the gap, maximising value from digital transformation, why projects fail and a look at some 2022 trends and examples.
Read MoreFinding the right business transformation partner
6 questions that will help you find the right business transformation partner People make change happen. Or more importantly, the right people. One of the barriers to starting a business transformation can be the associated risk. And the first risk, is choosing the wrong people to help you make it happen. For some clients we’re…
Read MoreIs methodology key to digital transformation?
8 steps to transformation success Organisations are sometimes faced with the challenge of how to find clarity from seeming chaos within their operating model, including their business processes, organisation, IT and data and their inter-relationships. Working through the complexity of all these elements and providing a clear vision for optimum design for the future requires…
Read MoreGlaxoSmithKline – Merger Integration
When SmithKline Beecham and Glaxo Wellcome merged, to create the largest pharmaceutical company in the world, an extensive integration programme was kicked off. i-Realise initially worked with SmithKline Beecham to help with merger preparations, after which the relationship continued with the new entity, both during integration and for several years post-merger. Approach We ensured that…
Read MoreSeven reasons why specialists succeed where big players struggle
Does “boutique consultancy” mean small and risky or can they really outperform the big 4? We’ve all heard the phrase “No one got fired for hiring IBM!”. It’s also used in the consulting world and implies that bigger consultancies are only hired by executives to protect their own reputation. Of course, this is simply not true – the ‘Big 4’ or the ‘Top 3’ are labelled as such…
Read MoreLeveraging capabilities to create scalable business opportunities
Ambitious businesses looking to scale across multiple product lines, or through a Mergers and Acquisition strategy, often hit the same obstacle. How do you remove duplicate or overlapping processes, products, roles, applications or data whilst maintaining growth momentum in each product or business line? In this, our next Expert Series, Associate Consultant Henry McNeill explains…
Read MoreDe-risking post-acquisition integration
Acquisitions are often seen as an essential element in companies’ growth strategies. Larger organisations will build a capability to search for, assess and negotiate successful acquisitions. However, integration is often left to employees to add to their day jobs. There are many studies available that show 50%-65% of acquisitions fail to deliver the expected value.…
Read MoreThe Met Office – Process modelling and maturity mapping as the foundation for operating model transformation
Background With more than 3,000 forecasts delivered every day, powered by cutting-edge technology and world-leading science, the Met Office has a wide and complex process landscape. They needed to fully ‘map’ those processes in preparation for an external ISO 9001 audit, and then understand whether their current processes were mature enough to support a re-organsation…
Read MoreOvercoming resistance to change
They say people don’t like change. If you think about it that’s not entirely true – as individuals we move house, change jobs, even change our hairstyles. But when it comes to organisational change and business transformation, overcoming resistance to change can feel like the hardest part of the journey for everyone involved. In this…
Read MoreUsing simulation to predict and prioritise change benefits
The way that we all live and work changed incredibly during 2020. Many industries were turned upside down and as we emerge from the pandemic, how customers and employees are prepared to engage with you is different. For many businesses, the longer-term financial position, and headcount planning, has become much harder to predict. So that…
Read MoreDeveloping Good Change Ideas from As-Is and To-Be Analysis
If you’re looking to change your current operating model or processes, it can be easy to consider the As-Is process – documenting what you have today – as a waste of time. In this next Expert Series article, we look at how going through your current processes before you dispose of them is the fastest…
Read MoreEngagement and communication to manage change
Communication and stakeholder engagement represent just one pillar of a robust change management programme, but without handling them effectively, change success is almost impossible to achieve. But what makes them effective? There are a number of key elements, and in this expert series, we focus on one that is often missed or ignored – why…
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