Verity Solutions hasbeen helping organisations of every size to deliver change more effectively; anexpert organisation in the analysis, change, programme and project managementarena.  We are committed to maintainingour niche position with a clear strategy outlining the maintenance andexpansion of our services. 

We have an excellentreputation for successful delivery and for long-term “partner” relationshipswith our clients.

Key business valuesare:

·               Change enabling

·               Results driven

·               Partners who add value to our clients’ businesses

·               Dedicated to quality

·               Flexible

At Verity Solutions,we see change as an opportunity for growth, not a threat to the status quo. Ouraim is to help the process of change by transferring our skills to you andhelping adapt them to your way of doing business. We measure our success byyours.

VeritySolutions Services

Portfolio Implementation Management

To facilitate realisation ofstrategy and strategic initiatives, PIM combines elements of Programme and ProjectManagement, including Risk Management and Benefit Realisation to enable themanagement of a collection of related projects to bring about a beneficialchange in the state of an organisation. 

Skilled implementation managersare vital to the successful delivery of your business’ change initiatives. Yetsometimes you don’t have the right person available in-house to manage aproject or programme, or you want to supplement your own implementation managers’skills and time with an objective, professional resource.

This service will provide youwith experienced implementation managers to fit implementation and deploymentgaps quickly and efficiently, enabling your projects to be deliveredsuccessfully.

The service is particularlybeneficial if you’re in one or more of the following positions:

o       Youhave limited in-house implementation management resource or expertise

o       Youwant to develop the skill of your internal resource

o       Youwant to front a project as internally led, however you need ‘belt and braces’external support to reduce skills risk

o       Youwant to introduce an objective or independent approach to your projects.

Our managers are experts inmanaging portfolio projects and programmes across a broad range of industriesand disciplines. They will be responsible for ensuring that every applicableaspect of implementation management is brought to bear to maximise thesuccessful delivery of your strategy.

Skills transfer is acornerstone of the Verity Solutions change management approach. It ensures thatan organisation realises the full benefits of working with expert changepractitioners. By teaming up with a Verity project partner, your managers areable to deliver major change initiatives by leveraging the Verity skills andexperience, reducing risk while growing the organisations own capability. This alsohas the advantage of spreading skilled resource across several projects asopposed to maybe one or two.

Interim Management

Interimmanagement gives you instant access to a senior ‘heavyweight yet hands-on’manager, with a proven track record, matched to your needs.  Interim managers are typically hired for 3 to12 months and help organisations that are trying to implement a criticalstrategy or looking to plug a critical management gap. The interim managementroute is often used because the role in question is not a permanent position ora permanent executive/manager cannot be found fast enough.

Whateverthe reason, interim managers offer major benefits:

·               Speed - they are available to start in days - withthe minimum of recruitment or termination formalities

·               Experience - interim managers are overqualified forthe work

·               Results - they are only as good as their lastplacement - so track record and performance really count. They are used to beingjudged by results so they know how to deliver

·               Knowledge transfer - they will transfer a hugeamount of skill, contacts and experience to your team which will remain longafter they have left

·               Objectivity - while sensitive to the company'sethos, they will not be constrained by company politics, personalities orprotocols

·               Focused - they can be assigned to a critical taskand their performance measured against it

·               Delivery - they can act as counsel to the Board -but then they will roll up their sleeves and deliver the strategy too

Interimmanagers provide:

·               The latest thinking

·               Short-term access to top management talent

·               Strategic capability

·               An independent eye

Interimmanagers are:

·               Implementers as well as being strategists, analystsand planners

·               Loyal to your business objectives

·               Flexible to do what you need

·               Focused on your profitability.

Verity Solutions has a network of 10,000 InterimManagers providing expertise in fields as diverse as ‘turn-around’ management,supply chain management and IT management, bringingto bear our knowledge of markets, products, technology and services, and ourtechnical and managerial expertise, to devise and deliver the best solution tomeet needs on an individual basis. Providing managerial expertise in the required field on a project byproject basis operating in the roles of Director, Chief, Head of and otherInterim or Locum roles

Strategy and Business Analysis Consultancy

Managing change in an organisation is theresponsibility of business leaders who deal with the planning, implementationand benefit realisation of specific change initiatives to meet all or part ofthe business strategy. Because most organisations have limited human, financialand material resources available, the challenge is how to control and directchange from a strategic, corporate viewpoint and ensure that chosen initiativesare successfully delivered and are the most beneficial to the business. VeritySolutions takes a top down approach to planning change by providing a set ofprocesses that enable the business to manage and develop its entire changeportfolio.

We can supply consultancy in a number of ways, hereare three such examples:

·        What if you don’t have a strategy written down?Strategy Accelerator is a proven, rapid facilitation process, utilisingworkshops for setting and communicating the programmes strategy and vision. Theapproach funnels senior executive’s views and ideas into an agreed vision foraction. The process takes into account today’s context and maps this into a simplemodel of the future, against which needs and solutions can be specified.  The output is a coherent, structured andconcise vision document that can be communicated to all the people responsiblefor achieving the major change.

·        If the strategy is agreed and written down then‘Value Planning’ enables an organisation to achieve its strategy and businessplan by:

o       Gaining cabinet responsibility for the ranking ofchange

o       Matching aspirations to affordability

o       Increasing the velocity of change using the availableresources

o       Providing a governance structure for change

This approach evaluates and manages theimplementation of idea’s generated from all sources, including strategy,continual improvement, and business change. It also enables the business toforward–plan resources more effectively and ensure that change initiatives areundertaken in the most beneficial and cost effective sequence to deliver thestrategy and business plan.

·        Fitness Check gives a professional, consultative,objective, evaluation of any current initiative or a Project Office – includingadvice on remedial action required to put things back on course. Designed tohelp Project Sponsors our Fitness Check Service uses best practice to assessthe current state of projects and enable viable base lines for training courseevaluation.

VeritySolutions clients have been asking for other types of management developmenttraining especially those required for the change environment from core skillssuch as

·              Leadership

·              Negotiation

·              Business writing

·              Effective communication

·              Presentation skills

·              Team building

·              Thinking for creativity and problem solving

·              Six sigma

·              Coaching

Throughour network of extensive training contacts we are able to supply trainers todeliver exciting fun training events, delivering specific ‘in-house’ trainingcourse material or Verity Solutions branded training courses at any chosenvenue.

Followup to training events through clinics, facilitated workshops or on anindividual basis are also available and are invaluable for keeping the messagesdelivered in the classroom alive and real. In summary we provide:

·               Design and delivery of training courses and material

·               Supply & support of trainers delivering thetraining

·               Post course support of the trained individuals backat their work place.