Lycodia

Solutions - Project and Programme Management

We have exceptional experience in providing project and programme support to deliver significant change for our customers wishing to improve their business performance or make significant service changes..

We place heavy emphasis on the ‘softer’ side of project delivery, including communications, engaging staff and making sure that project delivery is not just about budgets and resources but making real long lasting change. We are able to offer the following.

• provide leadership to a new projects or programme often including technology, change, business processes re-engineering
• provide QA, ‘critical friend’ role to a project or programme
• provide 'break-fix' where a project has gone wrong or has not delivered to customer expectations

We bring a wealth of tools and templates to ensure compliance to methodologies while quickly accelerating the development and deployment of projects. In addition we follow best practice adopting PRINCE2 and Managing Successful Programme frameworks.

All our customer engagements are testament to the wealth of project experience we can bring to our customers and help them succeed.

Solutions - Flexible and Mobile Working

In order to attract and retain the best talent as well as reducing accomodation spend more and more businesses are looking to adopt flexible working for their employees. We have experience in developing business cases to full implementation as well as engaging with employees. We are able to:

• Establishing and setting up the right technology, often how you integrate with the key business systems.
• Ensure the right HR regulations are followed and adhered to in particular around home working.
• Engage with staff to review what is right for the roles and function of the team both before and after implementation.
• Review carefully the impact of flexible and mobile working on ‘lone worker’ scenarios, including overall impact of the team and performance management.
• Flexible and mobile working business case development
• Adopting the right approach to the accomodation strategy

We are able to offer various engagements from a short review to a full implementation.

Please see our award winning case study on implementing new ways of working.

Solutions - IT Strategy

Having an effective IT Strategy to align with the business is essential to deliver a high performing business. We are able to leverage technology innovations for our customer to gain a competitive advantage, reduce cost, or increase the productivity of employees. We are able to help in a number of areas including –

• Defining IT strategy aligning to business needs. Help to facilitate a common understanding and needs
• Support and transition to new IT architectures
• Advice and support around development and technology methodologies such as .NET, Web 2.0 and integration
• Information management and regulatory requirements
• Review and undertake IT Vendor and Outsourcing reviews, including shared services and procurement
• Offshoring and Outsourcing advice and support

We have strong IT experience with backgrounds in major software companies and delivery of major IT projects that can add value to the engagement quickly and effectivley working with existing teams and vendors to provide value.

Solutions - Business Transformation

To make transformational agenda work for departments and divisions, a holistic approach needs to be taken covering employees, technologies and changes to the culture and attitude.

Only by looking at the whole can truly transformational change come about as well as realise key benefits. A single technology project or one that re-organises without looking at the whole picture does often projects fail or do not realise the original intentions of the key sponsors.

We have a unique way in which to work with your staff and engage them early and proactively to help execute and deliver the project.

With a best practice example we are able to split various aspects of the programme into several sections technology, business operations, communications and change, strategy and people. By splitting and have a clear defined objective we are then able to deliver the transformation and have each project linked and coordinated. These objectives are often come down to clear goals around customer satisfaction, employee retention and delivering efficiencies.

Our experience and knowledge worked to promote a London Council department to improve and deliver against its corporate goals.

Solutions - Moving to Paperlite Environment

We have experience in moving environments to work with less paper create better processes and efficiencies as a result. We recognise this could be part of accommodation changes or office moves where typically there is less storage available. We have wide experience in the following areas.

• Scanning solutions. We are able to work with various vendors from multifunction devices to software integration to your line of business system.
• Explore how information can then be leveraged as part of a wider document and knowledge management solutions
• Engage with staff on how to create and maintain a paperlite environment
• Create a virtuous cycle of business process change and making key technology changes to enable a paperlite environment regardless of current systems.