SEARCHLIGHT CONSULTING (SEARCHLIGHT BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED)

Portfolio, Programme & Project Management

Searchlight's Portfolio, Programme & Project Management cloud delivery frameworks, enables us to tailor our delivery approach to our clients' programmes and projects. Supporting cloud strategy definition through all programme and project states including establishing cloud operating models. Helping clients make better decisions, mitigate risk and maximise programme and project outcomes.

Features

• Programme and project requirements analysis
• Portfolio lifecycle management optimal alignment of programme benefits and costs
• Programme and project governance driving effective decision, risk, benefit management
• Programme and project definition, planning, cost management and benefits realisation
• Programme and project assurance, designed into portfolio, programme, project services
• Programme and project advisory and coaching to enhance client capability
• Portfolio, programme, project and workstream risk management within each initiative
• Selection and implementation of programme and project tools automating delivery
• Portfolio, programme and project benefits management & realisation
• Portfolio, programme and project management mentoring

Benefits

• Better decisions, mitigates risks and maximises programme and project outcomes
• Programme and project assurance designed into service delivery initiatives
• Improvement programme and project control and maturity
• Repeatable programme and project frameworks automate delivery
• Programme and project frameworks captures knowledge driving continuous improvement
• Optimal programme and project decisions ensuring successful outcomes
• Improved success and pace of programme and project delivery
• Enhanced programme and project stakeholder management
• Establishes high performing programme and project team culture
• Ensures programmes and projects deliver to time, cost and quality

£500 to £1,450 a unit a day

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Skills Framework for the Information Age rate card

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

Request an accessible format

If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format, email the supplier at steve.sharp@searchlightconsulting.co.uk. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.

Framework

G-Cloud 14

Service ID

289320983917202

Contact

Steve Sharp
07872120385
steve.sharp@searchlightconsulting.co.uk

Planning

• Planning service: Yes
• How the planning service works: Our approach to cloud planning supports all stages of the buyer, delivery and transition to cloud support life cycle. ; ; Our business, digital and cloud application and service alignment planning capability, ensures business capabilities are identified and cloud enabling options established.; ; Our business case and mobilisation planning capabilities, ensure the selection of the most appropriate cloud options; defining costs; capabilities; cloud solution/service contracting with vendors and implementation partners; cloud implementation roadmap and transition to a cloud operating support model.; ; Our Implementation planning capability, focuses on planning both the delivery of the cloud solution/service, while also designing and establishing the transition from an on-premise to cloud business and IT operating model.; ; Our cloud people capability planning service focuses on managing the knowledge acquisition and skills transfer for internal teams to manage the ongoing cloud delivery road map and provide cloud support to the business operation.
• Planning service works with specific services: No

Training

• Training service provided: No

Setup and migration

• Setup or migration service available: Yes
• How the setup or migration service works: Our services help buyers migrate to the cloud and between cloud services as outlined in the following 4 areas. ; ; Capability Definition: establishing a view of the cloud-enabled organisational capabilities, prioritisation and dependencies of capabilities desired by the buyers.; ; Transition Roadmap: establishing a roadmap to deliver the desired capabilities, including the introduction of cloud-based business applications, enabling technologies (integration platforms) or enabling delivery capabilities (ePPM, automated solution management/data migration/testing/learning) to support both cloud migration and establishing ongoing cloud operating models to be realised.; ; Planning for Optimal Architecture Transition Steps: enabling faster speed to benefit, while balancing risk and technical debt. Ensuring the overall architecture delivery roadmap progresses through logical steps, to achieve desired pace of benefit delivery. Our approaches manage the removal of any ‘enabling’ technical debt, while balancing overall costs, risks and ensuring maximum benefit realisation.; ; Planning for People Change and Capability Development: ensuring the adoption of cloud, and/or new cloud solutions/services is embedded, by helping business and IT teams to be ready, willing and able to adopt new business cloud solutions.
• Setup or migration service is for specific cloud services: No

Quality assurance and performance testing

• Quality assurance and performance testing service: No

Security testing

• Security services: No

Ongoing support

• Ongoing support service: No

Service scope

• Service constraints: None

User support

• Email or online ticketing support: No
• Phone support: Yes
• Phone support availability: 9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
• Web chat support: No
• Support levels: We provide both onsite or remote user support based on rates provided - reference our rate card.

Resellers

• Supplier type: Not a reseller

Staff security

• Staff security clearance: Conforms to BS7858:2019
• Government security clearance: Up to Security Clearance (SC)

Standards and certifications

• ISO/IEC 27001 certification: No
• ISO 28000:2007 certification: No
• CSA STAR certification: No
• PCI certification: No
• Cyber essentials: Yes
• Cyber essentials plus: Yes
• Other security certifications: No

Social Value

• Social Value:

  Social Value

  • Fighting climate change
  • Tackling economic inequality
  • Equal opportunity
  • Wellbeing

  Fighting climate change

  We work hard to ensure that all our staff, suppliers and clients support environmental protection and improvement in the work that we do. We promote increased remote working and reduced travel and ensure that appropriate processes and systems are in place to secure this effectively. The work we do enables more effective use of technology to reduce our impact on the environment. Specifically: ; ; • Hybrid working: we promote the use of hybrid working with our clients, arranging periodic face to face activity together, at a location to minimise travel. ; • Travel: where travel is required, we seek to use public transport wherever possible and look to schedule activity, to maximise face to face time on a day, hence reduce the instances of travel.; • Sustainable accommodation: we would follow our client’s accommodation guidelines, however typically utilising hotel chains, where environment policies for use of facilities are often in place. ; • Paperless office: we operate a paperless office first principle, wherever possible using electronic means of information capture.; • Recycling: we follow our clients recycling policies when on site or seek to recycle at our business locations.

  Tackling economic inequality

  Searchlights Creed that underpins how we operate our business and collaborate with our clients is at the heart of our proposition - We exist to increase the standard of living of society, by helping companies to be as well run as possible and help our clients create new business opportunities. ; When delivering our services we guide our clients through the process of how to uplift client team skills and roles. Our approach is to work fairly, responsibly and with respect to internal and supply chain talent, to ensure knowledge and skills have a plan for uplift and to identify opportunities to engage talent and provide opportunities throughout our clients supply chains.

  Equal opportunity

  We do not allow any form of inequality within the workplace. We engage consultants based on their specific skill sets and are happy to help them to achieve new skills and career progression. We utilise consultants from a vast array of different cultural and socio-economic backgrounds which we believe gives our team a much more representative outlook. This, in turn, enables us to achieve strong outcomes in the workplace.; ; Key to mobilisation of a new contract would be to:; ; • Verify working practices: to agree how the contract team would operate in terms of location, travel, communication, and environment to ensure a delivery environment is conducive for all team member’s needs. This may include – facility access or communication aides. A recent example, a Searchlight Consultant supporting a client assignment in Germany, having hearing impairments – buddy support was provided to help with English to German translation and use of supporting tools – including teams recording and transcript output.; • Understand any workforce dependencies: to agree how the combined team collaborate, considering knowledge, learning, social and health considerations to ensure all team members can actively collaborate. ; Key to delivery of a contract would be to:; • Periodic Reviews: while periodic reviews often focus on deliverables and commercials, our relationship management reviews throughout the contract would also focus on the ways or working and practices being employed to: ; o Maximise participation and inclusion from all parties.; o Ensure a balanced focus remains on consulting intervention and co-piloting to drive knowledge acquisition and capability uplift where appropriate and required

  Wellbeing

  Searchlights Creed that underpins how we operate our business and collaborate with our clients is at the heart of our proposition and is summarised as outlined below: “We exist to Increase the standard of living of society, by helping companies to be as well run as possible and help our clients create new business opportunities”; ; To achieve this, embedded into the way we operate is to ; - Provide consultants, clients and supply chain partners with opportunities to participate and engage in service delivery and create an inclusive and open environment to work in ; - This ensures a balance between service outcomes, personal goals and ensuring all people engaged have the support they need to ensure they know they are valued ; - Our approach to forming service delivery teams ensures we understand how individuals need to be engaged, taking into account different cultures, learning, communication styles, while understanding key considerations that need to be accommodated outside of the working environment; ; After launching our service delivery, we then have both formal and informal means of checking collective teams well being, using face to face meetings, informal events, and specifically ensuring hybrid remote working team members are engaged over and above the work content both within and outside of the work place

Pricing

• Price: £500 to £1,450 a unit a day
• Discount for educational organisations: No

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Skills Framework for the Information Age rate card

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

Request an accessible format

If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format, email the supplier at steve.sharp@searchlightconsulting.co.uk. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.