We can help you in many ways.

Our associates have decades of experience of business from both commercial and technical perspectives. We’ve been involved in all parts of the lifecycle, from blue sky strategy, design and build to operations and support.

Project Management

Our associates have many decades of managing programmes of all sizes, encompasing product launches across multiple territories and compliance programmes across whole organisations. We do this across all of the key factors:

Governance

The structure, process, and procedure to control operations and changes to performance objectives.

Standards

Define the performance architecture.

Alignment

The program must support higher level vision, goals and objectives.

Assurance

Verify and validate the program, ensuring adherence to standards and alignment with the vision.

Management

Ensure there are regular reviews, there is accountability, and that management of projects, stakeholders and suppliers is in place.

Integration

Optimize performance across the program value chain, functionally and technically.

Finances

Track basic costs together with wider costs of administering the program.

Infrastructure

Allocation of resources influences the cost and success of the program. Infrastructure might cover offices, version control, and IT.

Planning

Develop the plan bringing together the information on projects, resources, timescales, monitoring and control.

Improvement

Continuously assess performance; research and develop new capabilities; and systemically apply learning and knowledge to the program.

Risk Management

A simple and systematic process used to identify risks (obstacles) that might stop objectives being achieved and assess the risks to see how likely or severe they will be if they do occur. To manage the risks to reduce either the likelihood of the risks occurring or the severity of the risks if they do occur.
As well as being a systematic process, risk management is also a cyclical process
because, just as objectives develop and change over time, so the risks that might
prevent those objectives being achieved will also change.

Business Analysis

Whether it’s organisational change, process improvement or systems development our business analysts have the experience and knowledge required to identify your business needs and determine the solutions to your business problems or opportunities.

We can help you in any of the following areas:

Enterprise analysis: focusing on understanding the needs of your business as a whole, its strategic direction, and identifying initiatives that will allow your business to meet those strategic goals.

Requirements planning and management: planning the requirements development process, determining which requirements are the highest priority for implementation, and managing change.

Requirements elicitation: collecting requirements from your stakeholders by structured interviews, brainstorming and masterminding.

Requirements analysis: developing and specifying your requirements in enough detail to allow them to be successfully implemented by a project team, yours or ours.

Requirements communication: we have sophisticated techniques to ensure that your stakeholders have a shared understanding of the requirements and how they will be implemented.

Solution assessment and validation: we can verify the correctness of a proposed solution, the implementation of a solution, and assess possible shortcomings in the implementation.

eDiscover (Electronic Discovery)

Electronic discovery (also called e-discovery or ediscovery) is the process in which electronic data is sought, located, secured, and searched with the intent of using it as evidence in a civil or criminal legal case. E-discovery can be carried out offline on a particular computer or it can be done in a network. Court-ordered or government sanctioned hacking for the purpose of obtaining critical evidence is also a type of e-discovery.

The nature of digital data makes it extremely well-suited to investigation. For one thing, digital data can be electronically searched with ease, whereas paper documents must be scrutinized manually. Furthermore, digital data is difficult or impossible to completely destroy, particularly if it gets into a network. This is because the data appears on multiple hard drives, and because digital files, even if deleted, can be undeleted. In fact, the only reliable means of destroying data is to physically destroy any hard drive where it is found.

In the process of electronic discovery, data of all types can serve as evidence. This can include text, images, calendar files, databases, spreadsheets, audio files, animation, Web sites, and computer programs. Even malware such as viruses, Trojans, and spyware can be secured and investigated. Electronic mail (e-mail) can be an especially valuable source of evidence in civil or criminal litigation, because people are often less careful in these exchanges than in hard copy correspondence such as written memos and postal letters.

Computer forensics, also called cyberforensics, is a specialized form of e-discovery in which an investigation is carried out on the contents of the hard drive of a specific computer. After physically isolating the computer, investigators make a digital copy of the hard drive. Then the original computer is locked in a secure facility to maintain its pristine condition. All investigation is done on the digital copy.

E-discovery is an evolving field that goes far beyond mere technology. It gives rise to multiple legal, constitutional, political, security, and personal privacy issues, many of which have yet to be resolved.