The Home Office required a business change management to support and embed a secure digital transformation program. The Home Office approached the Bloom marketplace for its rapid and compliant route to market which enabled the customer to identify a supplier with the capability and expertise of delivering on this complex requirement.
The successful supplier, Marlowe Consulting, specialise in building internal long-term capability in business change to support future Digital Transformation outcomes, through the delivery of practical change management skills.
The Home Office’s digital transformation programme is a strategic paradigm shift that relies on people both within the Home Office and in OGDs reengineering how they operate, adopting new skills and accepting new ways of working. It requires focus on the change management and people implementation approach of The Home Office which ensures the programme is set up for long term success.
Marlowe Consulting provided a critical friend business change review of the programme. With the aim of providing an independent assessment, support and challenge to the senior leadership charged with oversight and successful delivery of the programme, more specifically a secure ICT system. This review outlined a business change strategy, practical approaches and team structure for the business change team to action and deliver.
Post review the leadership team invited Marlowe to work with the business change team to deliver the recommendations and practical implementation of business change approaches identified.
“Our experienced project delivery teams were able to work with our client to deliver a best in class digital transformation. By sharing our extensive industry knowledge, transferring essential skills and developing capability we ensure our clients have the required skills for a sustainable continuation of best practice.”.
Deborah Feakins - Director, Marlowe Consulting
Marlowe’s specialist expertise in integrated people-centric change provided The Home Office with a direct line of sight between strategy, planning, impact and readiness assessments, engagement, communications, training and benefits realisation. An assessment of people and customer-centric approaches and practices was conducted that were benchmarked against industry best practice which identified opportunities for improvement.
Marlowe was responsible for the design and delivery of targeted, specialist change management skills to upskill a sustainable strategic civil service business change capability.
A structured set of business change deliverables and a works breakdown structure was agreed and delivered, which included:
The programme implemented a multi-stage business change transition roadmap with full operational engagement. This development of a portfolio and enterprise approach to change management has improved communication, sharing and collaboration opportunities with stakeholders .
In addition to the business change support, Marlowe supported the development of a new business case following a programme rescoping exercise. They worked with economists to quantify benefits, and develop a benefits realisation plan for review by the Home Office Portfolio Investment Committee and HM Treasury. Marlowe recognised the need to transition with minimal disruption to operational services, this reduced the risk of key skills and retained knowledge being lost which minimised any drop in performance during transition.
Marlowe facilitated the adoption of business change approaches incorporating governance, building integrated plans, managing risks, dependencies, benefits and actionable reporting. This ensures a managed and sustainable transition from legacy to new, supported by: