A fresh kind of business consulting APPROACH

We offer a new kind of business and IT consulting framework developed by experienced, independent-minded, professionals. Between us, we have centuries of professional experience, and we actually enjoy sorting out and improving business systems. We have the flexibility to work with you on your own terms to solve your problems and meet your objectives.

We understand the need to keep focused on today's IT but we also know that businesses struggle to make sense of, and embrace, the exciting opportunities of ever-expanding digital universe.

We can help you get the most out of your IT investments, improve your capability to deliver services and help you make sense of technology and digital trends.

We are experienced, motivated, and engaging.

We care deeply about making IT and digital solutions work for business.

We provide practical help to organizations with ambitious goals.

We do this using our proven 'Service in a Box' framework and its proven assets

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This is what we do.

We USE A LAYERED BUSINESS AND IT SERVICE FRAMEWORK TO AID understandING OF IT SERVICES AND THEIR ROLE IN DELIVERING EFFECTIVE BUSINESS SYSTEMS

Our mission is to harness our skills and experience, in consumable form, to make you better at delivering IT services to achieve successful business outcome. We believe that current capability can always be enhanced no matter if services are provided from within the organization, or by service providers - including cloud-based services.

Our Service in a Box framework helps provide the necessary insight to identify were improvements are required and if necessary how best to achieve a rapid step-change transformation.

We love challenges. We can untangle your most difficult IT projects

Complicated solutions and plans can always be broken down into more manageable building blocks and roadmaps. We use this approach to help us untangle complicated situations, provide clarity of purpose and find the path that helps us navigate to a successful outcome.

Complexity is different. Often the mixing of people, multiple suppliers, legacy technologies, demanding timescales, etc. make it difficult to see the wood for the trees. Managing complexity requires excellent teaming, good listening skills, straight-talk and a clear vision of the way ahead. Our consultants are used to these challenging environments. Their maturity and experience make them great colleagues to team with when navigating complexity to drive an outcome.

Leadership as a Service

We have three broad offerings under our Leadership as a Service capability. These are:

• Skills Transfer: we assist in the development of teams or individuals within client organisations as part of a wider consultancy engagement
• Interim CIO-ships: we can offer temporary CIO canditates; or 'virtual CIO' services where we can help with specific CIO-level tasks
• Coaching: we use our professional coach (PCC, MCC, CPCC) network to offer one-to-one, or team-based, coaching sessions. The coaching frameworks available can also address organisational effectiveness and leadership.

Skills Transfer

We believe that many IT business projects fail because of insufficient attention to team leadership coupled with inadequate mentoring, lack of experience and poor team communications.

There are generally many 'moving parts' required to deliver the necessary outcomes. It is now an accepted way of life to rely on the services of trusted third parties, external services and internal services from other parts of the business. The job of integrating these disparate functions falls to the senior leadership team and assistance must be available to ensure success.

In our pool of talent, we have proven technical and project leaders who have faced these issues many times before. They bring to bear incisive action that will re-energise teams, identify areas to work on and provide management systems that are pragmatic and motivating. We bring these skills naturally as part of our way of working - these are not bolted on as afterthoughts.

Interim CIO

Within our network we have former Chief Information Officers (CIOs) who are able to take on the role for a temporary period while a permanent post is vacant. We are also able to offer this in the form of a 'virtual CIO', for example where a CIO-level task is required or where a CIO skill-set needed within the senior team.

By adopting a 'task vs. role' approach we are able to work with our clients to perform a specific activity or produce a specific output. Examples of this are:

• Produce a business aligned IT strategy and present this to a senior team in business language
• Carry out a strategic review of current IT capability and identify change priorities
• Produce metrics and scorecards that indicate how IT is serving the business
• Assist in the selection process of permanent CIO candidates

Coaching Services

We also have a number of professional, certified Coaches who are able to facilitate workshops or conduct one-on-one mentoring with executives, managers and professionals. These are valuable services that are there to support the individuals and teams in their jobs. In addition, there are long term benefits to personal development that equip individuals with skills that will serve them throughout their careers.

Our team is formed from a network of independent-minded and experienced professionals with a proven and distinguished track-record at blue-chip IT companies or who have performed the role of CIO/CTO.

With an experienced team, we can rapidly diagnose problems, often because we have seen them before and have a number of approaches that are proven and pragmatic.

We love teaming with our clients. Many of our clients have very capable people and organisations but need that added insight or leadership element to make them more effective.

We also have a network of trusted partners with whom we team on a regular basis. These range from Cloud Services suppliers to specialist firms with deep subject matter expertise such as security, testing and agile development. When required, we bring this additional capability to bear on our client projects in a seamless and integrated fashion.

We'd love to hear from you. Our contact details are:

Mike Clark, Managing Partner:

• email: mike.clark@flex50.co.uk
• Mobile: (+44) 7785 220 366

Phil Taylor, Managing Partner

• email: phil.taylor@flex50.co.uk
• Mobile (+44) 7595 182 558

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