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Herd’s Pre-Discovery Exploration Service helps leaders assess complex policy, programme, or portfolio spaces before committing to Discovery or delivery. We surface and compare multiple opportunities, analyse value and feasibility, and provide clear options on where to invest, what to change, and what to stop - setting up delivery for success.
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Herd supports public-sector organisations to improve digital services, processes, and ways of working over time. We use proportionate, evidence-based approaches to identify improvement opportunities, prioritise actions, and embed learning, ensuring improvement activity is focused, sustainable, and aligned to operational realities, delivery constraints, and policy intent.
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Herd’s Business Analysis Leadership Capability-as-a-Service provides senior, accountable leadership to establish, stabilise, and mature business analysis capability across the public sector. We bring a pragmatic, outcome-focused approach where analysis is critical to delivery success but requires clearer direction, consistency, or recovery.
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GDS Digital Spend and Service Standard Training equips Grade 6 and Senior Civil Service digital leaders to understand, interpret, and implement the Cabinet Office’s Digital Spend Controls, Service Standard, and TCoP. Delivered by a former Departmental Assurance Lead, it builds confidence, judgement, and capability to lead compliant, value-focused digital delivery.
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The Business Analysis Talent Herd is our 2-year recruit-train-and-deploy academy that develops your future talent. We do the hiring, people management and learning, aligned to GDD / DDaT frameworks. Trainees are embedded into your team; putting learning into practice, supported by highly-experienced, practitioner coaches, demonstrating the 70/20/10 learning model.
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Herd supports public-sector organisations to assess gaps between current and desired future states for digital, data, and service change. We provide proportionate, evidence-based analysis across capability, process, technology, and delivery, focusing on decision-relevant gaps aligned to policy intent, delivery constraints, and assurance expectations.
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Herd supports public-sector organisations to identify, analyse, and document non-functional requirements for digital technology services. We help clarify performance, security, accessibility, resilience, and operational needs, ensuring services are designed and delivered in line with policy intent, GDS Service Standard, Technology-Code-of-Practice, delivery constraints, and assurance expectations.
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Herd supports public-sector organisations to understand customer journeys across end-to-end digital and service interactions. We map journeys to identify user needs, pain points, constraints, and handoffs, producing proportionate, decision-focused artefacts that support service design, prioritisation, and decision making aligned to policy intent and delivery realities.
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Herd’s Project and Programme Management Capability-as-a-Service provides a managed, scalable PPM capability for public-sector portfolios and programmes. We help organisations control investment, prioritise demand, and provide reliable insight to support confident senior decision-making across complex, multi-programme environments, aligned to the Project Delivery Capability Framework.
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Herd supports public-sector organisations to develop clear, proportionate business cases for AI-enabled solutions. We help define problems, assess AI and non-AI options, and present decision-ready cases aligned to policy intent, delivery feasibility, value for money, HM Treasury Green Book principles, the UK Government AI Playbook, and TCoP/GDS standards.
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Herd supports public-sector organisations to identify underlying causes of persistent problems affecting digital services and delivery. We provide structured, evidence-based root cause analysis focused on understanding systemic issues, not symptoms, producing clear, decision-ready findings aligned to operational realities, policy intent, and delivery constraints.
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Herd’s coaching programme is designed to increase knowledge, skills and confidence in relation to continuous improvement. It supports teams and leaders to foster a continuous improvement culture within a coaching cohort that can be diffused into the wider organisation and supports leaders to develop and implement a continuous improvement service.
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Herd Consulting
Herd supports public-sector organisations to develop clear, proportionate business cases for digital, data, and technology change. We help define problems, assess options, and present decision-ready cases aligned to policy intent, delivery feasibility, value for money, HM Treasury Green Book principles, and relevant GDS, DDaT, and Technology Code of Practice expectations.
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Service Owner Leadership Training equips Grade 6 and SCS leaders to excel in the Service Owner role. Built on Herd’s experience defining, leading, and developing the profession, it builds judgement, confidence, and leadership capability to establish, embed, and grow Service Owner practice, improving decisions, accountability, and outcomes across services.
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Herd’s Agile Delivery Management Capability-as-a-Service provides a managed, scalable delivery management capability for iterative public-sector digital programmes. We take a pragmatic, outcome-focused approach, delivering change incrementally through short delivery cycles while coaching teams to improve flow, manage risk, and maintain delivery confidence across discovery, delivery, and live services.
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The Product Management Talent Herd is our 2-year recruit-train-and-deploy academy that develops your future talent. We do the hiring, people management and learning, aligned to GDD / DDaT frameworks. Trainees are embedded into your team; putting learning into practice, supported by highly-experienced, practitioner coaches, demonstrating the 70/20/10 learning model.
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Herd’s Robotic Process Automation Business Analysis Service supports public-sector organisations to assess and prepare processes for robotic and AI-assisted automation. We provide proportionate, evidence-based analysis to understand suitability, risks, and constraints, helping teams make informed decisions about where automation adds value, aligned to operational realities, delivery feasibility, and assurance standards.
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Herd’s Business Architecture Capability-as-a-Service provides a managed, scalable business architecture capability for public-sector transformation. We take a pragmatic, outcome-focused approach to help organisations create shared understanding of their operating landscape, align change to strategic intent, and make informed decisions about capabilities, operating models, and transition, aligned to public-sector digital standards.
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Herd supports public-sector organisations to define, implement and operationalise a future-state Target Operating Model (TOM) that enables effective and sustainable delivery of services. Our evidence-based approach aligns people, process, technology, governance, and financials to the organisation’s strategic objectives to create a scalable model that can be practically embedded into operations.
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Herd’s Delivery Management Leadership Training equips Grade 6 delivery leaders to lead complex programmes and portfolios with confidence. Drawing on Herd’s experience providing accountable delivery leadership, it builds judgement, capability, and practical skills to stabilise at-risk delivery, improve predictability, and embed governance-aligned delivery practices across public-sector organisations.
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Herd’s Discovery Recovery service is a targeted, evidence-led intervention that runs alongside live delivery. We surface the specific decisions, assumptions, and constraints blocking progress, and provide clear options on what to change, stop, or prioritise - restoring momentum, reducing risk, and rebuilding confidence without restarting Discovery.
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A 5-month intensive leadership programme for progression to Senior Business Analyst, delivered by industry expert Christina Lovelock. Aligned with the 70/20/10 learning model, the programme moves beyond theory to embed strategic leadership, impact-driven communication, and vision-setting within the Government context, mapped to the DDaT / GDD capability framework.
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Product Management Leadership Training equips Grade 6 and SCS leaders to guide product decisions across portfolios, programmes, or policy areas. Designed by senior practitioners, it builds judgement, capability, and radical focus to stabilise underperforming products, align priorities, strengthen governance, and maximise outcomes in complex, ambiguous, and distributed delivery environments.
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Herd’s ERP Business Analysis Service supports public-sector organisations to analyse requirements and readiness for ERP-enabled change. We provide purpose-led, proportionate analysis of processes, data, roles, and constraints to inform ERP selection, configuration, and implementation decisions aligned to operational realities, delivery feasibility, policy intent, and assurance expectations.
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The Delivery Management Talent Herd is our 2-year recruit-train-and-deploy academy that develops your future talent. We do the hiring, people management and learning, aligned to GDD / DDaT frameworks. Trainees are embedded into your team; putting learning into practice, supported by highly-experienced, practitioner coaches, demonstrating the 70/20/10 learning model.
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Herd’s service helps Digital Directorates scale from 50 to 500 people without reorganisation. A senior trio works alongside leaders and teams for 3–6 months, prioritising strategic and tactical improvements, unblocking decisions, and establishing a sustainable rhythm of continual improvement - leaving the organisation capable of continuing progress independently.
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Herd’s Delivery Management Capability-as-a-Service provides a managed, scalable delivery management capability for complex public-sector digital programmes. We help organisations establish predictable delivery, manage risk, and maintain delivery confidence across multi-team environments spanning discovery, delivery, and live services, aligned to GDS Service Standard, DDaT, TCoP, and digital governance standards.
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Herd’s Delivery Management Leadership Capability-as-a-Service provides senior, accountable delivery leadership for complex public-sector programmes. We help organisations establish control, restore confidence, and improve predictability where delivery risk is high, assurance is required, or leadership capacity is stretched, operating within GDS Service Standard, TCoP, and digital governance standards.
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Herd’s Product Management Capability-as-a-Service provides a managed, scalable product management capability for public-sector digital services. We help organisations set product direction, prioritise investment, and maximise value across discovery, delivery, and live services, aligned to policy intent, user needs, organisational constraints, and public-sector digital standards.
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Herd supports public-sector organisations to define and understand data structures through conceptual and logical data modelling. We develop clear, technology-agnostic models to support shared understanding, system design, integration, and decision making, aligned to policy intent, delivery constraints, and assurance expectations.