Management Consultancy
we’re a new but rapidly growing entrepreneurial company. Behind all of our services is our main aim of maintaining flexibility, while getting things done in the most efficient and mutually beneficial way possible.
Business strategy and process management
Our solutions for business strategy and process management help organisations to define their vision, and create a plan to implement it. By addressing all aspects of the current operations and desired improvements, we can help you to maximise operational efficiency. We’ll also identify and control any potential risks in your plan, ensuring you don’t lose out.
We provide technological tools and business methodologies, while also using out vast area of expertise to analyse your company and your industry. We help you to develop an appropriate and efficient framework to turn your vision into real, tangible ROI.
By improving your business practices and identifying ways to reduce costs, we’ll help you to maximise your corporate efficiency. This means improved financial and operational performance in the short term, but also the achieving of long term goals through continued support and development.
Here at ACL Management our strategies could entirely restructure your business processes, with the introduction of the cutting edge technologies which we are experts in. By automating some of your business processes, you’ll increase efficiency while also reducing man-hour costs. We can then compare your new performance indicators with those from previous years, to determine just how quickly you’re growing.
Change Management
Businesses have to constantly change to meet the demands of their customers and their industries. But with so many options, where do you start?
Our change management consultations consist of a multi-step process, where we’ll identify the changes to be made and the most effective ways to execute them. Change is at the heart of every project we take, and we stick to a basic flow, which we’ve found leaves everyone happy.
First, we’ll use support and consultation to assist our clients in an assessment of their current operational state.
We’ll then use analytical and diagnostic processes to gather both “hard” and “soft” data about your company. We can then pinpoint any major conflicts or issues which may be aaffecting your company’ key business processes.
Only then can we suggest changes, and how to best make them.
Change is predictable
Traditional change management may suggest that change is unpredictable, and a bit of a shot in the dark. We believe change, and especially the risk involved, is a highly predictable and measurable process. Most change management programs will suffer because of a lack of initial risk assessment. Here at ACL Management we never overlook an initial assessment of potential risks, and we’ll always create an action plan to eliminate risk and improve the likelihood of success.
Go beyond installation
Many companies will successfully implement a change, but then struggle to reap the benefits. Installation of a change is as simple as designing a new playbook for your sports team. But to score points and ultimately benefit from the change, the players have to know the moves and actually use them. Similarly, your employees will need to embrace the changes and act accordingly. The biggest risk to a successful implementation is not the initial change, it’s the acting upon it.
Build a senior management sponsorship
As we know, for any change to succeed, people must begin to think and work differently. Changing behaviours can be difficult, but with Senior Management Sponsorship, new behaviours can be encouraged, reinforced and celebrated. This chain of individuals reinforcing the change will ensure employees at every level understand their roles and the wider implications. Sponsorship is a cascading process, and any roadblocks along the way will affect the overall success of the change. Senior leaders must continually monitor the behaviours of employees and the effectiveness of the Sponsors, to ensure no risks or shortcomings develop and pose a threat to the company’s success.
Realising results isn’t easy. It can often be an uphill battle, taking time, effort, determination and a lot of planning. Fortunately, with our help the process can be made less stressful and more likely to succeed.
Market analysis
Primary research: We know who to talk to, and we know how to listen.
We’re fluent in local languages and we own offices in and around the markets we serve, but our expert analysts also possess a wealth of industrial and commercial experience from further afield. This means we understand both local perspectives and the global impacts which can affect your business. Our interviews will often involve experts from a range of fields including:
But what makes us different from any other market analysts?
Well, our market analyses are heavily informed by our primary research. Each member of our team conducts a number of in-depth interviews and discussions with industry experts and leaders, finding out what you need to know and how best to act on this knowledge.
On top of this, we also conduct a range of secondary research. Our interviews and discussions are supplemented by national statistics, annual company reports, and information from trade and professional associations. Any developments are quickly identified and assessed for their potential impact to your company.
We’ll even go one step further. Reports can often be drawn from our internal database of non-confidential, “hard” data. This data is cross-checked and rigorously analysed, before being combined with our primary and secondary research to give you the whole package.
Start ups
We’ve been there, and we know how to help. We started as a one man business, working with insufficient resources, a lack of information, and plenty of late nights! But you can learn from our mistakes, and in turn we’ll enable you to focus solely on the growth and development of your business.
We can:
Corporate governance
Are you in need of a new lead director, but want to base the decision on fair and objective criteria so as to avoid confusion or upset?
Perhaps you’re considering a restructure of your board, or wish to provide feedback to each member. You may be worried about the consequences of such feedback ,especially if it’s not all positive?
We can help.
Would your senior staff be better leaders if they had a greater self-awareness, especially of any blind spots or shortcomings?
Do you have senior executives who aren’t aware that they must make changes to become effective leaders?
Would your high level staff benefit from feedback by an objective, external body? Perhaps they need a wake-up call as to the realities and demands of senior leadership?
If so, get in touch.
Executive and leadership coaching
We’ve been there, and we know how to help. We started as a one man business, working with insufficient resources, a lack of information, and plenty of late nights! But you can learn from our mistakes, and in turn we’ll enable you to focus solely on the growth and development of your business.
We can:
IT Project Management
Every business needs to consistently gain value from their IT investments, a challenge which has led many to recruit help from Program, Project and Portfolio management offices. With the help of PMO’s, businesses can boost their IT efficiency, reduce running costs and improve their project delivery times.
ACL Management’s project and programme management service will help you to tackle:
- Increasing visibility of projects, programs and operations
- Managing large, complex programs.
- Creating a proactive, service-oriented organization, while delivering cost-effective solutions.
- Aligning business demand and resource capacity.
- Identifying early warning indicators to eliminate bad investments
- Continuously improving program management maturity
Typical PMO’s will manage and offer IT operations support, while also providing an oversight for larger implementations. By involving the PMO in your strategic portfolio planning or enterprise portfolio management, you’ll help to increase visibility of IT spending, while also controlling delivery.
Our services include:
- PMO/ EPMO/Global PMO Strategy roadmap formulation, and creating business cases for transformation.
- Assessment of existing PMO’s, based on the best industry practices like OGC, P3O, P3M3 and PMI OPM3.
- PMO transformation through process design, strategy implementation, and training or mentoring.
- Designing a common structure and framework for managing programs, including details of the functions to be executed by the PMO, key roles and responsibilities, and the metrics to be adopted.
- Target Operating Model (TOM) Design, and Future State PMO Design
- BAU support, and PMO process implementation and rollout.