Our Associates

 When we first starting consulting some years ago we noticed two things:

·        the lack of business experience of many of the large consultancies’ bread and butter employees (i.e. not the senior guys who sell you their business, but the fresh faced young men and women who actually do the work)

·        the exorbitant day rates charged !

We soon figured out that there are clients who will pay through the nose for a brand (no one ever got the sack for buying Big Blue), or smart slide decks produced overnight in India. And that in the public sector, up to 50% of the yield was swept away in tender and bid management and “project management” fees.

Mercifully clients are wising up to such practices, and we became aware that there was a quality of experience available to us through trusted colleagues with whom we had worked for years and who, for a variety of reasons, were running their own portfolio activities.

By utilising them, we could provide much higher quality output for our clients, tender for a greater variety of projects and compete on a Value for Money basis.

The Associates you see listed here are tried and trusted, available at Value for Money rates, and provide a range of services:  strategic business analysis, business development expertise, Information Architecture and Governance advice and implementation, market research in the UK, Europe and the USA, and technology advice across the whole value chain of web production.

We have MBAs, but no 'wet behind the ears' MBAs; and we have experienced professionals who provide actionable input because we never forget our four “C”s – one of which is to enable you to make it happen within the Culture of your own organisation!

Take a moment to read about each of them.

Shane O'Neill