Develop a strategy and plan
- Struggling to get the message across to employees or customers?
- Launching products or services that don't deliver for the bottom line?
- Growth or innovation engine that used to work, no longer delivering?
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Take a step back, better understand your customers and competitors and figure out what your organisation can do better than anyone else. Identify what you should stop doing and how to mitigate the risks.
And no strategy is complete without an actionable and timely plan to deliver. Getting buy-in to the plan from different stakeholders and driving it relentlessly is what is necessary for success.
Having developed highly successful strategies and plans for startups, scale-ups, corporates and public sector organisations, Jon can quickly diagnose the issues, generate new insights, explain optons and generate a consensus and excitement.
Timeline: 2 to 12 weeks, depending on scope and complexity
Build a product or service
- Got an idea for a product or service but need help to make it a reality?
- Want to demonstrate traction quickly, without risking a large investment?
- Conflict between business and technical teams slowing you down?
- Need to upgrade and optimise legacy products or software?
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Building great products and services requires a wide range of knowledge and skills. Knowledge of a market, customers, regulation, pricing, processes, technology and data. And it needs the person leading to be both strategic and in the detail.
With a 20+ year career working with some of the world's leading product and service organisations, I'm equally happy coaching agile teams, presenting product strategy to PE boards, or delivering keynotes on product / service best practices.
My approach is user centric, whilst also being able to work with and lead technical teams. I identify assumptions early and find the quickest and cheapest way of testing them before commiting larger investment.
Timeline: 4 to 26 weeks, depending on scope and complexity
Drive transformation and innovation
- Lots of stakeholders, workstreams or complexity to manage?
- Need to take an agile approach to digital transformation, rather than an expensive and risky multi-year programme?
- Want to re-focus the organisation on the customer and / or employees?
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Whilst programmes should always be able to deliver quick-wins in weeks or months, true transformation can take years in larger organisations. Setting-up the transformation for success at the start is critical.
I focus on ruthless prioritisation, getting the right team in place, bringing clarity where there is complexity, building and communicating the case for change and understanding the need to be both in the detail and strategic at the same time.
Having delivered global digital transformations and innovation labs for well-known brands and governments for over 20 years, I'm a safe pair of hands to manage strategy and delivery. I balance a focus on commercial impact and speed with the use of design thinking, service design, systems thinking and organisational change methods.
Timeline: 12 to 100 weeks, depending on scope and complexity
Create thought leadership
- Want to re-postion your business, or attract new trypes of customers?
- Have a strategy to move to a more premium end of the market?
- Need to generate more warm leads with your marketing efforts?
- Have the expertise but no one to facilitiate the creation of great content?
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In this new age of AI, creating large volumes of average content is table stakes. To stand-out, deeply insightful, novel and targetted content is needed. Many businesses have great ideas abd great people but lack the marketing, PR and strtaegic writing ability to turn that talent into content that drives leads and ultimately revenue.
From whitepapers, to keynote talks, long form blog posts and PR placements in top industry and global publications, I can help you create and promote the content you need to change your business.
See the thought leadership page for more examples.
Timeline: 2 to 16 weeks, depending on scope and complexity
