Stephen Warrilow

De-risk your change initiative

Specialist support for directors delivering significant change initiatives





    I can de-risk your initiative by making sure that you anticipate and resolve the issues that derail so many initiatives and lead to that 70% failure rate

    Contact me now




About me - personal profile

I provide specialist support specifically for:

  • Programme directors of established programmes

  • Divisional directors of corporates

  • Directors of mid-range corporates

Specialist support that:

  • Focuses on the areas outside of the scope of traditional programme and change management methodologies

  • Gets "under the radar", "behind the lines" - and does "whatever it takes" to ensure that you DO succeed and DON'T become part of the 70% of failures:

    # Before you have an issue - to anticipate it
    # When you have an issue - to neutralise and resolve it
    # After you’ve had an issue - to ensure it doesn’t happen again




So what’s my USP?



    (1) “ ...you don’t pay me to understand your business”

    • Following initial meeting(s) - the first step is always a preliminary analysis - within agreed term of reference
    • You don’t pay me to understand your business, you get to see me in action and to decide if you want to work with me
    • I get to see if I can help you and if I want to
    • Your deliverable is a verbal debrief, a one page summary and (if appropriate) an outline proposal for the next step




    (2) “...been there, seen it, done it...and then some!”

    25 years cross-sector experience with 100 + companies as an independent resource to directors and senior management, in Corporate, SME and OMB environments.

    Multi-disciplinary functional experience:

    • Programme management – support & recovery
    • Organisational change & development
    • Troubleshooting & business risk assessment
    • Business process engineering & design
    • I.T. impact assessment
    • Market / Customer / Competitor analysis
    • Direct marketing
    • Sales management & training (B2B)
    • Business consultancy & strategy review
    • Business development (B2B)

    Resources:

    • Best mix of your in-house methodologies and my own proprietary tools and techniques
    • Work alone and/or create teams with your people
    • My own extensive network of associates and trusted former colleagues




How I can add value to your change initiative


  • Define and create a programme to deliver your change initiative and the benefits

  • Address key areas outside of the scope of MSP, PRINCE and other traditional tools

  • Manage the politics and act as “guardian of your best interests”

  • Test your programme’s impacts on all key stakeholders - and remove resistance

  • Risk assess your programme and implement what has to be done to avoid failure

  • Ensure buy-in and motivation to change management requirements

  • Manage complex interfaces and relationships with key stakeholders and contractors

  • Identify and resolve the cultural gaps and issues - the hidden source of all resistance

See here for comparisons between my approach and traditional consultancy or interim management




A few of the organisations I have helped



    Programme delivery

    Bull Information Systems
    COLT Telecom
    DPDS Consulting Group
    Eastern Group / TXU Europe
    FOCUS Consulting Group
    Strachen & Henshaw (Weir Group)
    Stockport NHS Trust
    Oakland International

    Business consultancy

    Action Computer Supplies
    Dun & Bradstreet
    BT
    ICT Donnelly
    M & S Financial Services
    Sun Banking Corporation
    Telecom Eirean

      Business development

      Devon County Council
      D & B Software Services
      Farnell Electronics
      Flight Electronics
      Forward Trust
      Gestetner
      ITT Industries
      Kent Enterprise Office
      McDonnell Douglas
      Mettler Toledo
      Osram
      Portsmouth City Council
      Schlumberger Industries
      Southern Electric
      SPP Pumps
      Standard Chartered
      UCB Bank





What people say about me...


See how others have benefited from my 25 years cross sector experience with 100+ companies in mid range corporate, larger SME and corporate environments:



    “...objective and extremely constructive… Stephen displayed absolute honesty, integrity and diplomacy…”

    Paul Ziolek
    Operations Director
    Oakland International Ltd



    “…Stephen displayed skill and confidence in designing and implementing the business, management and communication processes required to fast-track the programme delivery…”

    “…he fulfilled a key role in the relationship management of a major subcontractor to ensure that contractual delivery dates were met… a ‘delivery mentality ’ … Stephen is a considerable asset to the senior management of any large programme…”


    Terry Dewhurst
    Director, IT Transformation & Business Change
    lastminute.com



    “...effective in coming to a holistic and perceptive diagnosis of the key issues… I recommend Stephen as a resource for aiding improvements and analysing key issues that will lead to this…”


    Ann Barnes
    Director of Operations & Performance
    Stockport NHS Trust





Should we be talking?


Quite simply I can help you de-risk your initiative by making sure that you anticipate and resolve the issues that derail so many initiatives and lead to that 70% failure rate.




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