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Improving Operational Effectiveness
SwanBee is an independent management consultancy working with medium and large organisations to troubleshoot and improve operations, enhance strategic organisation design and create innovative ways of working.
How SwanBee can help You
Recent Examples
For a Private Equity owned SME
Assessed operational effectiveness and implemented improvements, backlogs and fulfilment times reduced by more than 60%
For a FTSE 100 CIO
Designed a Target Operating Model for IT and implemented urgent changes, a 10% annual cost reduction target was achieved.
For a Luxury Retailer
Created a framework for exploring business use cases for Artificial Intelligence, practical prototypes were built, working with start-ups and established vendors
How SwanBee works
You need help that goes beyond consulting clichés and generic methodologies.
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SwanBee will focus on what will make a tangible difference quickly by tailoring the work to what really needs to be done.
PRAGMATISM
The best consultants give you insight quickly and outline immediate steps to take.
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With SwanBee, you will get early action to remedy issues, demonstrate strategic direction or experiment with new ideas.
PACE
Your people are the stars, not consultants.
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The goal for SwanBee is always to work with you and your team, set you up for success and then leave.
PEOPLE
Why SwanBee?
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You will get a consultant who works for you, as part of your team.
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You will get help to find the right people, only if you need them.
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You will get honest opinions and thoughtful insights based on experience and judgement.
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People in your office are there to get the work done, not to increase the size of their account.
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The only focus is on delivering what you need to be successful.
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Quiet pride in the work delivered for you and the way it is done, rather than updating you with financial achievements or chasing awards.
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Delivery experience keeps solutions practical, strategy experience avoids unwise quick fixes and innovation experience ensures bold solutions are explored.
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You can trust that the advice is based on an honest assessment of what you need.
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You will get a rare combination of rigour, structure, personality, empathy, creativity and innovation.
Contact
Andy Johns believes that hiring great consultants directly, offers better quality, speed and value than being a cash cow for conventional consultancies.
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Andy founded SwanBee to be able to focus entirely on working in the clients' best interests, without being compromised by competing agendas to increase profits for consulting firms.
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Andy has got to know some exceptional professionals who share the same values. They are independent thinkers with unflinching integrity and deep experience, and will represent SwanBee if they are right for the client.
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Please do get in touch if you would like to discuss what you would like to achieve and would like an honest, experienced assessment of what you should do.
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