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Visual Meaning Ltd

Shared meaning for digital transformation

We build dynamic, enterprise-wide models of organisations and their ecosystems, and use them to design, facilitate, and propagate more meaningful dialogue between change teams and stakeholders around digital transformation.

Features

  • Accessible, pictorial models of organisational systems that people can understand
  • Consulting approach blends systems thinking and visual thinking techniques
  • Interactive platform with intuitive GIS-style interface
  • Outcome-led methodology focused on conversation that needs to be enabled
  • Semantic layer allows rapid data integration and visualisation on map
  • Interactive features can be tuned to engagement needs
  • Modular imagery can be broken down and re-used
  • Customisable interface allows integration of limitless stories / content layers
  • Meaning encoded in formal ontology for use by technical teams

Benefits

  • Creates shared meaning across diverse stakeholder groups
  • Builds a common point of reference for understanding the transformation
  • Opens a space for dialogue across silos with different languages
  • Flexible – new insights and patterns can be added rapidly
  • Rapid integration of data with visual model to validate patterns
  • Integration with data discovery workshops facilitates agile ontology development
  • Using imagery with other communication materials extends the shared meaning

Pricing

£400 to £2,750 a unit a day

Service documents

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.whitla@visual-meaning.com. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.

Framework

G-Cloud 14

Service ID

3 8 8 8 4 3 6 0 2 8 7 1 5 5 2

Contact

Visual Meaning Ltd Steve Whitla
Telephone: 0792 00 66 536
Email: steve.whitla@visual-meaning.com

Planning

Planning service
Yes
How the planning service works
For most of our clients, moving to cloud-based services is usually one component of a broader digital transformation programme. We provide services in business analysis, visual design and facilitated dialogue resulting in meaningful functional models of the organisational context within which the transformation is occurring.

Although we do not (usually) provide technical systems design or architecture services, we work with the client’s own technical experts or external support to articulate proposed options within a visual framework that makes the significance to the rest of the organisation clear, enabling a much deeper level of dialogue with senior stakeholders and decisions makers about what the options will actually mean. Options here could relate to the platform or architecture itself, the implementation approach, or the target operating model.
Planning service works with specific services
No

Training

Training service provided
Yes
How the training service works
This service is underpinned by our unique Shared Meaning methodology, which draws together elements from the fields of systems practice, visual design and cognitive science. We can provide a range of training services, from single workshops to multi-day training courses, to help client staff learn our techniques. We can also integrate training sessions into ongoing project activities.
Training is tied to specific services
No

Setup and migration

Setup or migration service available
No

Quality assurance and performance testing

Quality assurance and performance testing service
No

Security testing

Security services
No

Ongoing support

Ongoing support service
Yes
Types of service supported
Hosting or software provided by your organisation
How the support service works
As well as being available in static and modular forms, our visual models are usually also hosted on our cloud-based Shared Meaning Platform, for the duration of the transformation programme, enabling more rapid development/deployment of visual elements and various interactive and live data feed features.

Service scope

Service constraints
Our service is consulting-led, delivered in partnership with our clients, not as a stand-alone system. Our visual maps are preferably hosted on our live cloud-based service, but can be hosted within the client's IT environment, and maintained as a managed service. Hosted models allow more rapid development of visual layers, integration of data, and enablement of live and interactive features. All of our visuals can also be exported to work as static models.

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
Support level can be tailored to the needs of the client and project situation.

Resellers

Supplier type
Not a reseller

Staff security

Staff security clearance
Other security clearance
Government security clearance
Up to Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS)

Standards and certifications

ISO/IEC 27001 certification
Yes
Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001
British Assessment Bureau
ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date
17/01/2023
What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover
Full coverage
ISO 28000:2007 certification
No
CSA STAR certification
No
PCI certification
No
Cyber essentials
No
Cyber essentials plus
No
Other security certifications
No

Social Value

Social Value

Social Value

Wellbeing

Wellbeing

Visual Meaning (VM) understands that wellbeing starts internally and ripples outward. We have intentionally cultivated a culture of support, growth, and honest self-awareness, because we believe these are fundamental in maintaining wellbeing in the workplace. This is encouraged by internal communication and ways of working, developmental workshops and weekly forums (covering diverse topics that have included social skills, sleep and healthy eating), and by strongly encouraging healthy work-life balance. We bring this into every project, modelling wellbeing for our supply chain and clients, enabling social change through example. As an organisation, we have intentionally decided to work with clients who are pursuing mindful and conscious growth and development across ESG sectors. Our business offering delivers shared meaning and systemic transformation, providing deeper awareness of the factors and relationships that sculpt, improve, or strain business ecosystems. Our research process interviews diverse stakeholders and ensures that their experiences are represented on a common landscape using shared language, making them feel valued and heard, and bringing communities together. The visual artefacts we deliver create access points for individuals to understand and contextualise themselves within their broader community, and we work hard to make them accessible. They unstick stuck conversations, create a shared sense of purpose, highlight successes, identify areas where growth is needed, and enable appropriate intervention. The result is improved communication, enthusiastic and meaningful engagement within and across client departments, and increased alignment, collaboration, purpose, and motivation in workers. Shared meaning helps to create workforces that are more efficient, effective, supportive, focused, and empowered – all of which make the workplace better and improve personal and communal wellbeing. VM continues its investment in wellbeing through training, feedback, and involvement in broader environmental and social initiatives – cultivating wellbeing for staff, clients and the wider community through shared meaning.

Pricing

Price
£400 to £2,750 a unit a day
Discount for educational organisations
No

Service documents

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.whitla@visual-meaning.com. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.