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How does your organisation really work?

Accelerate has been created through years of experience helping organisations transform the way they operate. 

This is what we do

Accelerate is designed to uncover dysfunction, convolution, and inefficiency, to illuminate hidden issues, and reveal the interconnection, communication and flow problems present in the functioning of your organisation. We offer recommendations on how to address these issues, and how to implement those changes.

Tailored to you:

We tailor Accelerate to your specific organisation and circumstances to ensure relevant insight into how your organisation is working and where change can deliver real and significant improvements.

Team Foundations

We observe and listen to your teams to understand how they work and how they want to work. We develop valuable insight without operational inertia or political interference.

Product Foundations

How does your organisational strategy support your products and product teams, what does good look like, how is it measured and does it delight your customer?

Information Context

How does information flow through your organisation, how does it support decision making and how accurate is it? We help model you information and data flows.

Operational Excellence 

Understand your culture. Is it designed to eliminate the tension between the development and operation of software, reduce the development life-cycle, and output high quality?

Organisational Design

It’s not unusual for organisations to grow organically without deep reflection of how it operates as a holistic system. Together, we shine a light on your operating model.

Co-Designed Engagement

Creating engagements that are enjoyable, positive and packed with insight is what we do. It’s designed with you to reflect your culture and your needs from the beginning. 

Team Foundations

We observe and listen to your teams to understand how they work and how they want to work. We develop valuable insight without operational inertia or political interference.

Product Foundations

How does your organisational strategy support your products and product teams, what does good look like, how is it measured and does it delight your customer.

Information Context

How does information flow through your organisation, how does it support decision making and how up to date it? We help model you information and data flows. 

Operational Excellence 

Investigate your culture, is it designed to eliminate the tension between the development and operation of software, reducing the development life-cycle, outputing high quality.

Organisational Design

It’s not unusual for organisations to organically grow without a deep reflection of how it operates as a holistic system. With you, we view your operating model with this lense.

Why we do what we do

To help organisations understand how to unfold their human potential. 

  1. Organisations are struggling to adapt

    • Key factor in the UK’s sluggish productivity growth is the inertia of 70% of employers to adopt available new technology.[1]
    • Productivity over the last decade has grown a paltry 1.4% over the whole period.[2]

  2. Leaders are asking for help in organisational design

    • 92% of executives rate organisational design as a top priority for employee engagement.[3]
    • Just 21% of executives feel expert at building cross-functional teams.[3]

  3. High levels of engagement equate to high performance

    • Investing in companies with good employee experience would yield better returns year on year than the S&P500.[4]
    • 85% of employees not engaged at work.[5]

How culture affects performance

Research [6] indicates that organisations with performance-enhancing cultures significantly outperform those with less employee-experience orientated cultures. These are the stark differences:

Revenue growth

682%

Employment Growth

282%

Stock price growth

901%

Net Income growth

756%

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frequently asked questions

Your Accelerate engagment

Why do you need this?

Optimising one part of an organisation will invariably impact the other parts, knowingly or not. To work best, significant changes need to be implemented with consideration for the whole organisation as an interacting eco-system. This is where 1ov can help.

The Accelerate approach is designed to uncover dysfunction, convolution, and inefficiency, to illuminate hidden issues, and reveal the interconnection, communication and flow problems present in the functioning of your organisation.

What does it cost?

We are driven by the genuine desire to help organisations of all shapes and sizes and our primary consideration is where we see we can make a positive difference. To this end, the best way to understand what it would cost is to have a conversation with us where we can understand your situation and aspirations and we can then see how things would cost for you specifically.

As an indicator, for a growing small to mid-sized organisation in a single UK based location with around 5-10 development teams and about 200 employees, we would suggest 4-6 weeks with an indicative cost of about £40,000.00.

What are the core components?

Accelerate is delivered in three core components. Each part will comprise clearly understandable and direct insight :

  1. The ‘big picture’: Every organisation’s picture is unique but what they have in common they will communicate clearly information about the state of your organisation and it’s components.
  2. The Issues: We will breakdown where we’ve found issues in both the current operation of your organisation and where we see them surfacing against your aspirations and any specific change/transformation already on your roadmap.
  3. The Recommendations: A tool kit of options for you to consider how you can optimise your organisation to get where you need to go.

What happens after we deliver the core components?

We will have provided you with actionable data and recommendations and hopefully you’ll be keen to implement some of them. We’d be pleased to help to turn your aspirations into reality. If you chose to work with us this is how we do it:

Together:

  • we co-design the key outcomes you want to achieve/tackle first;
  • we set the metrics that best let us measure success;
  • we shape the initiatives required to do it;
  • we do a reality check;
  • we make it happen.

1ov work iteratively, on quarterly outcomes (as part of a larger strategy), so that you protect your investment and maintain business agility.

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Our wish is for any engagement with 1ov to be a coming together of expertise, so please do reach out to us for a conversation if any of what you read here interests you. There’s no obligation to do anything more than chat about our areas of expertise! 

We always appreciate the chance to connect and maybe join with you in our eco-system of like minded change agents. 

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References 
  1. Confederation of British Industry: From Ostrich to Magpie – Increasing business take up of proven ideas and technologies 
  2. Office for Budget Responsibility: Report on UK productivity
  3. Deliotte: Global Human Capital Trends 2016 The new organization: Different by design

  4. Jacob Morgan: The Employee Experience Advantage: How to Win the War for Talent by Giving Employees the Workspaces They Want, the Tools They Need, and a Culture They Can Celebrate

  5. Gallup: State of global workplace report
  6. Kotter, Heskett: Corporate Culture and Performance
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