Management Consultancy
Staying ahead through thinking and acting differently from your competition is the minimum standard for sustainable advantage in the 21st Century. Human Dynamics offer a professional consultancy approach that helps you reach and sustain leadership.
We specialise in helping you address 'wicked problems' - see the diagram below
Wicked problems are those where:
- It is vital to get a shared vision if energy, money and time are to be well spent
- Current solutions are not good enough, needing practical creativity
- The overall direction of travel and / or routes to get there are unclear. At the extreme, this condition is commonly known as the 'swamp'.
Leaders understand that much competitive success lies in resolving
so-called 'wicked problems' i.e. ones of inherent uncertainty and complexity
where 'off the shelf' solutions are inadequate or potentially dangerous..
We can help by:
- Facilitating important events where an independent guide and expert is essential for success
- Project management to ensure that ingenious thinking turns into productive action
- Providing expert analysis, advice and recommendations on topics where an external perspective is essential
- Negotiating the best possible outcome to a complex issue rather than a compromise which does not address anyone's interests
- Importing appropriate best practices, models and concepts where theory is essential to underpin action
- Researching important questions that you wish to explore – this includes survey design, implementation and feedback and a range of other soft and hard research approaches
Examples of our work
- Helped a major company pre-empt a change in competitor strategy using scenario planning and systems thinking with impact measurable in millions.
- Enabled a major charity to achieve growth through a strategic review, stakeholder consultation and improved co-operation with the unions.
- Facilitated local Government leaders to make informed decisions about new technologies in social care and health.
- Reviewed project management practice for a company concerned to eliminate poorly constituted projects and maximise the opportunity from projects with the best risk : return profile.
- Operated as a troubleshooter on an international travel project that was in dire straights, achieving a turnaround in fortunes.
How do we begin?
- Step 1: Ambition - Initial consultation to clarify your needs and expectations about how we will work together. Thus you get to sample our work at no risk or cost to yourself
- Step 2: Proposal - We provide a full proposal which gives you a 'map of the territory' and options for further consideration. This allows you to choose the most elegant solution to your needs.
- Step 3: Decision - You decide the most preferred option for the consultancy to take, giving consideration to how it will best fit your long term business strategy.
- Step 4: Delivery - We implement the agreed consultancy using the most effective and efficient route. This means that you commit only those opportunity resources that are really needed. We maintain communications and support to ensure that you harvest the full benefits of the assignment.
We do not stay on any longer than is necessary for the changes to be
adopted by your people, thus minimising the problem of dependency from
using external agents.
