Senior delivery capability for central government programmes.
EIS Consulting provides senior technology and delivery leaders who work within your programme, operate through your governance arrangements and collaborate directly with civil service teams. We concentrate on the decisions and dependencies that hold delivery back, and on preparing your teams to lead the next phase.
Where programmes stall
In our experience, the constraint is more often a shortage of experience in particular places than a shortage of people.
Decisions without owners
Decisions that should take days can wait for weeks when nobody with the right authority and context is close enough to the work.
Dependencies outside the team's control
Delivery teams may be ready to proceed but held back by another team, a supplier or a legacy system they cannot influence directly.
Plans that are slow to become services
Business cases and roadmaps are approved, but working services can arrive later than intended.
A different delivery model
Large systems integrators are well suited to many programmes. Where the need is for experienced judgement rather than additional capacity, a smaller and more senior team may be more effective.
Team
Large systems integrator
Larger teams across a range of seniority
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A small team of senior practitioners
Cost structure
Large systems integrator
Team costs typically fixed over a longer contract
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Proportionate commitment, scaled to the work
Who you work with
Large systems integrator
Account and delivery management layers
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The practitioners carrying out the work
Intended position at the end
Large systems integrator
Continued or follow on support
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Your team taking ownership of the capability
What we provide
Delivery leadership
An experienced lead who takes responsibility for agreed outcomes and works through obstacles with your senior responsible owner.
Specialist technical capability
Architecture, data and platform expertise, provided where a specific decision or design requires it.
Agile delivery practice
Support for teams adopting or strengthening agile ways of working, measured by what is delivered.
Transfer of capability
A deliberate transfer of knowledge and responsibility to civil servants, so that the programme does not depend on external support.
How to engage us
EIS has previously held a place on the Digital Outcomes and Specialists framework and is working towards rejoining. In the meantime, we are glad to discuss smaller, time limited engagements to address a specific constraint, and how these can be arranged within your department's procurement rules.
Begin with the constraint
Tell us where your programme is being held up. Damian Neilson will give you a considered view of whether a small senior team could help, and what that would involve.