Leading Talent Limited
End-to-end digital transformation, project management and delivery assurance
Utilising industry standard methodologies including Waterfall and Agile, we support organisations through their digital business transformation journey. We have expertise in delivering enterprise and technical architecture review and design, full cloud migration support, data and business analytics capture and interpretation, business application implementation and planning and project management.
Features
- Project management expertise MSP, PRINCE2, PMP, AGMP, Agile, Waterfall, Wagile
- Business case, RFP, assessment, reviewing and designing enterprise; technical architecture
- Cloud migration to Microsoft 365, Azure, AWS, applications and desktop
- Business application implementations such as SAP, WMS, ERP and M365
- Change management, corporate communications, personas, use cases and phased implementation
- Cyber consultants, Information Security, solutions architecture, maturity assessments, safeguards
- Enterprise architecture, alignment of business objectives to technology, data, Security
- Data analytics, Big data, explore, clean, enrich, interpret, visualise, act
- Digital Supply Chain data transparency, advanced analytics, process automation, AI
- Business continuity, emergency planning, risk capability assessments, recovery plans, exercises
Benefits
- Project management and delivery assurance from decades of Big4 experience
- Unique consultancy to meet bespoke business needs and constraints
- Provision of comprehensive architecture designs, plans and migration strategy
- Provision of agnostic digital and cloud consulting services
- Build resilience, scalability and increased information security through cloud migration
- Disruptive thinking, emerging technologies for transparency, process automation AI adoption
- Digital supply chain intelligence to improve performance and reduce TCO
- Well defined requirements that enable more accurate project outcomes
- Project delivery assurance and proactive management and mitigation of risks
- Dedicated single-point-of-contact liaison with your key stakeholders
Pricing
£450 to £1,250 a unit a day
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Framework
G-Cloud 14
Service ID
6 2 3 0 6 4 6 2 9 2 0 8 6 0 9
Contact
Leading Talent Limited
Karen Rose
Telephone: 0292 2786014
Email: contact@leadingtalent.co.uk
Planning
- Planning service
- Yes
- How the planning service works
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All implementations start with a concrete business case. We will support the creation of this, aligning with your stakeholders', business priorities and constraints. A thorough understanding of your current technology and business landscape will be captured through a detailed discovery phase and workshops with stakeholders. Our experts will then create a high level design, financial forecast and cost benefit analysis.
We will perform the required vendor platform analysis to be able to choose the right provider and platform for the business needs, each stage being punctuated with approval gateways.
We will create a governance structure to ensure communications are sent to the correct people in the correct manner, and key stakeholders are aware of progress and any challenges. - Planning service works with specific services
- Yes
- Hosting or software services the planning service works with
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- MS Azure
- AWS
- Google Cloud
- Amazon Workspace
- Microsoft 365
Training
- Training service provided
- No
Setup and migration
- Setup or migration service available
- Yes
- How the setup or migration service works
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Our services include managing the delivery of the plan and interdependencies across workstreams. We track, manage and mitigate risks and issues to the project plan and use the governance framework to quickly identify and tackle any challenges or opportunity.
We ensure stakeholder awareness and communication throughout and create clear Proof of Concepts and Pilots to ensure expected benefits are realised. - Setup or migration service is for specific cloud services
- Yes
- List of supported services
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- MS Azure
- AWS
- Google Cloud
- Amazon Workspace
- Microsoft 365
Quality assurance and performance testing
- Quality assurance and performance testing service
- Yes
- How the quality assurance and performance testing works
- Quality Plans will be created as part of our overarching end-to-end project plan and will detail holistic and granular tasks, with scheduled times allocated to a dedicated testing phase. This process will use key Subject Matter Advisors and business input and Quality Plans and test scripts as well as other aspects based on the nuanced scope of each engagement. Tailored outcomes and expectations will be agreed in advance. Robust testing plans are built on key requirements and expected results to ensure quality is upheld on final deliverables. Failure to meet expectations will result in a comprehensive review, root cause analysis and retesting.
Security testing
- Security services
- Yes
- Security services type
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- Security strategy
- Security risk management
Ongoing support
- Ongoing support service
- No
Service scope
- Service constraints
- Where feasible, agreed maintenance activities will be conducted with minimal disruption to the service and in cases where this is impractical, maintenance will be scheduled in advance with prior notification to the client. We offer a flexible and pragmatic approach to identifying suitable testing and implementation times, leveraging sandbox/test environments to minimise impact on your business operations.
User support
- Email or online ticketing support
- Email or online ticketing
- Support response times
- The standard escalation is weekdays during office hours. Emergency-only escalation at weekends out of hours, can be accommodated. Leading Talent will respond to a change request or service request within 2 business days of receiving the request. A change request is defined as an alteration to an existing agreement or statement of work which could include an increase or decrease in services provided.
- User can manage status and priority of support tickets
- No
- Phone support
- Yes
- Phone support availability
- 9 to 5 (UK time), 7 days a week
- Web chat support
- No
- Support levels
- Leading Talent primarily provides project team activities and management wrapper support during standard office hours. However, we can provide an out-of-hours emergency managerial contact to cover evenings and weekends if this is required. Individual project KPIs and service levels will be discussed during contractual conversations and Discovery phase. We aim to offer a flexible and transparent service and work with the client to create a set of agreed service levels and KPIs tailored to the project(s). Leading Talent will respond to a change request or service request within 2 business days of receiving the request. A change request is defined as an alteration to an existing agreement or statement of work which could include an increase or decrease in services provided. A service request is defined as the client requesting non-standard working, for example out of business hours (9 AM to 5 PM), typically in support of a business priority or short-term specific business requirement.
Resellers
- Supplier type
- Not a reseller
Staff security
- Staff security clearance
- Conforms to BS7858:2019
- Government security clearance
- Up to Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS)
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
- No
- Other security certifications
- No
Social Value
- Social Value
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Social Value
- Fighting climate change
- Wellbeing
Fighting climate change
We are a carbon neutral company, wholeheartedly committed to reducing our impact on the environment and acting as ambassadors to promote sustainable, clean and ethical business practices across our network. We have recruited the services of Carbon Footprint Ltd to accurately calculate our company’s carbon footprint, using DEFRA and BEIS industry approved emissions factors. This includes Scopes 1 and 2 of the Greenhouse Gas Protocol, as well as a partial review of Scope 3, and our most recent annual audit identified 6.5 tonnes CO2e. As per our commitment to carbon neutrality, we offset more than we contributed (20 tonnes CO2e) through a dedicated UK-based tree planting initiative accredited and verified by VERRA (Verified Carbon Standard). This meant our net emissions for 2022 equated to negative 13.5 tonnes CO2e. In the interests of transparency, we joined the Carbon Database Initiative, providing an open platform for companies to report their carbon emissions and offsetting journey.
We have invested heavily in remote working infrastructure, embracing paperless working and virtualising meetings as default to minimise commutes and help provide increased flexibility to our workforce, as well as reducing office energy and water consumption. When face-to-face meetings, conferences, or client visits are necessary, we are committed to offsetting the carbon emissions associated with these journeys. We meticulously track each trip and offset the emissions at the time of booking.
Additionally, we encourage our remote working employees, to recycle and be mindful of their resource consumption. We have a selection of energy saving policies and signposting suggestions to help those working remotely to take advantage of Green Energy Tariffs for their electricity and gas usage whenever possible. We also encourage energy-saving practices like putting laptops to sleep when not in use, switching them off at the end of the day, and unplugging any unused devices.Wellbeing
Leading Talent have invested heavily in remote working infrastructure, providing employees the benefit of flexible working arrangements to support their physical and mental wellbeing, accommodate various caring duties and provide enhanced ability to control their work-life balance. This is supplemented with signposting to support services, e.g. local grievance counselling, meditation workshops and healthy lifestyle schemes. We have a dedicated wellbeing champion who is responsible for raising awareness and monitoring community-led activities that might enhance the wellbeing of our workforce, distributing details to the wider team.
All staff undergo regular supervision 1-2-1s, discussing ongoing personal and professional development. Each has their own tailored personal development plan, and are supported with paid training, coaching/mentoring and networking opportunities that result in industry recognised qualifications. All staff training is logged within our training matrix. We invest in our team, resulting in demonstrably low staff turnover and high levels of staff satisfaction.
We offer all staff members one week of paid leave for volunteering each year. This allows our team members to support the causes that are of priority to them and close to their hearts and enables us to positively impact communities that otherwise may be overlooked.
Leading Talent holds quarterly face-to-face team events, giving a much-needed chance to meet up, collaborate as a team and build social connection, reducing isolation from remote working, boosting employee morale and motivation.
We are signatories to the Armed Forces Covenant, marking our commitment to supporting members of the Armed Forces community. We recognise and promote fair and respectful treatment of those who serve or have served in the Armed Forces, as well as their families. This supports local authorities, NHS trusts and governing bodies of certain state schools in their legal obligation under the Covenant Legal Duty.
Pricing
- Price
- £450 to £1,250 a unit a day
- Discount for educational organisations
- No
Service documents
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