This case study demonstrates the importance of having visibility and robust oversight of your entire portfolio of change. It summarises an assignment I completed some time ago, but have repeated similar projects for many other businesses and achieved similar results. The Company The private wealth management arm of a well known global banking group, with offices […]
Case Study: Law firm preparing for high growth
The Client A law firm specialising in intellectual property within emerging markets. They have a global client base of high profile bluechip companies. The firm has approximately 400 staff with offices throughout Africa. The Problem Following some changes within the Senior Management Team, including the appointment of a new Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer, […]
BPM – where is your organisation on the process maturity journey?
“Brilliant process management is our strategy. We get brilliant results from average people managing brilliant processes. We observe that our competitors often get average (or worse) results from brilliant people managing broken processes.” Source: a senior Toyota executive Business process management (BPM) is a systematic approach to making an organisation’s processes and workflows more effective, […]
Season’s Greetings from Solitaire Consulting
Here we are nearly at the end of another year, when a lot of us take time to reflect on the previous 12 months and look ahead to the future. Here at Solitaire Consulting it has been a good year; we have built on foundations laid in previous years and worked on a number of […]
Collaboration – why being self employed need not mean working on your own
I’ve been self employed now for 6 years, firstly as a sole trader and for the last 2 years as a limited company. Prior to this I had been in management positions for at least 15 years so had always had a team of people around me. Having to do everything myself and not having […]
It’s all about change
Welcome to my new blog! It’s the same me with the same thoughts and hopefully even better content to come. I’ve taken the decision to move off my WordPress.com blog under the www.paulevery.com domain and integrate with my main company website. It was becoming confusing trying to maintain the two different web presences. Over the […]