We work with clients across three related sectors in which we possess deep, practical, expertise…
Central Government: helping departments, agencies and other national bodies translate Government’s missions into deliverable policies, programmes and investments; and, helping commercial suppliers to engage strategically with Government clients, prepare for and win major deals - and deliver complex programmes.
Place-based bodies: helping combined authorities, investment zones, freeports and others to use devolved powers and funding to create real economic and social impact; and, helping commercial suppliers to respond strategically and effectively to devolution, delivering brilliantly integrated, place-led, services.
Education: helping national bodies, education institutions and training providers, commercial suppliers and others to deliver for learners and the economy - leveraging a combination of expertise in strategy, policy, technical product development, curriculum, innovation, transformation and operations.
We’re experts in the disciplines necessary to drive real success in the sectors we support…
Strategy and policy: helping clients make genuine, integrated, strategic choices; explore entry to new markets, and routes to success in them; and appraising acquisition opportunities.
Transformation and operations: helping clients define and execute complex transformation efforts and service delivery programmes, including where they require niche, technical, sector expertise.
Programme and change management: helping clients to scope, mobilise and lead large programmes which require a deep, practical, and technical understanding of how Government works.
Digital and data-driven innovation: helping clients explore how emerging technologies, including but not only AI, have the potential to help you reinvent what you do and how you do it.
Qualifications and assessment: helping clients develop new and review existing qualifications, assessments and learning resources, through all education phases and product types.
Curriculum and compliance: helping clients assure and enhance curriculum quality and the mechanisms that drive improvement; and, helping you manage complex funding compliance issues.
why clients choose us
Our clients’ feedback is clear and consistent. They choose to work with us because we’re not like a traditional consulting firm…
We’re focussed on the outcomes of our work with you: we work beyond the consulting outputs and deliverables. Our teams work relentlessly to bring about the change, and realise the front-line public service outcomes that you care about most.
We’re a team of experienced, recognised, sector experts: we are able to support you with the technical work that matters most in your organisation. We understand your context and challenges, and will add value from the first day of the engagement.
We understand and know our way around Government: our team includes former senior civil servants and advisors who know how the sausages get made in Whitehall, and who maintain strong and trusting relationships with colleagues working in policy areas we’re focussed on.
We invest in long-term, trusting, client relationships: we care about the sectors we support, and the clients we work with; we want to be the people you call when the going gets tough. We invest in our relationships well beyond individual pieces of work.
We keep it simple, and focus on what matters: we make it our business to be easy to work with; you won’t find reams of text, in a tiny font, at the back of our decks. We expect brilliant work from ourselves, and contract on the basis that we’ll be great.
We partner to create social value: we don’t just fill in the form. We’ll work with you to identify uniquely valuable ways in which we can create additional outcomes through our relationship with you; and then we’ll actually fulfil those commitments.