"We wanted to take a much more

strategic approach to IT

but didn't know where to start....

O'Shea Business Consulting

provided very

practical help with the

development of our IT strategy"

Case Studies

The benefits of our approach include:

• Change driven by desired results, not forced by delivered capabilities
• Focus on the realisation of business outcomes, not simply delivery of the project portfolio
• Changes aligned to the overall business strategy, vision and goals
• Ownership of the change is retained by the business from the outset
• Delivery of planned capabilities is de-risked
• A clear basis for the alignment of major change initiatives with the overall portfolio of work that drives an organisation’s achievement of its strategic goals
• Programmes are managed in line with best practice principles, creating a common language of change between us and our clients.

Meaning that the following outcomes are more likely to be achieved:

• Time to deliver is reduced
• Business control is improved
• Unnecessary costs are avoided through prioritising projects better
• Unnecessary costs are avoided through improved quality of delivery
• Resources are used more efficiently
• Overall business management is more effective 

The strength of a consulting-led approach to managing business change programmes is particularly evident in the strategies, tools and techniques required to manage the change lifecycle.

• Portfolio development and management to:
• Help define what outcomes are needed to achieve an organisation’s strategic goals
• Identify what programmes should be set up to enable those outcomes
• Help keep the portfolio in line with those goals.
• Envisioning and communicating the change and aligning the whole organisation around the change by using innovative approaches such as Rich Media.
• Business case development and management to help support and control a programme throughout its lifecycle and ensure the required return on investment.
• Organisation design and the development and support of leadership structures to ensure strong governance and drive the pace of change while maintaining business as usual.
• Benefits management that clearly identifies the desired benefits that focus the programme delivery, their ownership, their measures of success, how they will be transitioned into the business and how they will be realised and sustained.
• Stakeholder management and communications, bringing a wide-ranging set of innovative and proven methods and tools to help support change leaders in mobilising their organisation to understand, accept, adopt and believe in the change.
• Quality management, improving and de-risking delivery through the best management practices, leveraging our deep experience in running such programmes.