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Hi! I’m Phil Atkinson, organisational re-design and change management consultant, 'problem solver', with companies large and small in the UK, Europe and the USA.

 

For more than 20 years, I have been driving organisational redesign and change in 'blue chip' multinationals -  like Case CNH Global, General Electric, Volkswagen FS, Mortgage Express, Diageo, Aviagen, BT, CMG, Lloyds, and in the 'other than profit' sector,  such as NHS trusts and RSPB  – with remarkable success. 

 

I have consulted in Banking, Finance, Insurance, Legal firms, IT consultancies, Distilling & Brewing, Logistics, Plastics, Manufacturing, Process flow technologies, Engineering, PetroChemical and a variety of quangos and public sector organisations.   

 

Based on my unique approach, diagnostic tools and methodologies I have developed strategies to implement effective organisational redesign and change faster than the competition. I create matrix organisations with top teams to troubleshoot and resolve core problems speedily delivering measured performance improvement. 

 

"My mission is use my expertise and energies to drive, install and implement planned organisational change speedily for improved  performance for my clients in  these times of uncertainty, threat and turbulent change"

 

Partner Organisation Re-Design

Driving Change

My role is to cause a significant improvement in your business performance.  I use hard and soft tools and methodologies to drive the change home.  I focus on your 'needs and wants' to make organisation improvement easy.

 

Business Recovery in the Recession

 

To move swiftly to economic recovery - we work together to tailor and implement solutions.  Your business is unique and requires a specific tailored strategy for implementation. 

 

I enableyou to move to the next level of performance using the best consulting strategies and tools that I have devloped. 

 

I drive and manage corporate, team and personal change to  achieve their business results.

 

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OD, Diagnostics & Culture Change

Business Analysis

My experience is as an Behavioural Economist and an OD specialist. These are my core competencies - together with Organisational Re-Design, Matrix Management, Culture Change,  and Applied Business Psychology.

 

Profitability & The Matrix Organisation

 

We must ditch the slow, bureaucratic, silo driven organisational culture and replace it with a hybrid lean matrix culture focused entirely on growing the business and profitability.

 

Let me help you develop strategies to create a new business or revitalize an existing one in these difficult times. We can work together with your business plans partnering to reshape your business culture to cause business improvement. Or, together, build a successful platform for customer retention and customer acquisition strategies.

 

 

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Multi-disciplinary Support

Matrix Organisation

Clients often choose to use my organisational skills in lots of 'hands on' ways.

 

in order to improve quality of customer management and profitability requires a highly tuned, responsive organisation structure, culture all driven by focused seamless processes that flow through aligned functions.

 

Everything from re-designing organisations to improve their competitive edge to hosting and facilitating large events, conferences and launches, to helping clients pitch for new business to presentations and sales training workshops.

 

Clients choose to use my skills in  Business Analysis, using the RAPID businesss model, to hosting workshops around continuous improvement programmes.

 

 

 

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Hitting the spot

 

Best Practise in Effective Organisational Re-Design & Change

 

I have developed strategies to implement effective change faster than the competition.  I work with top teams to deliver improved measured performance.  Working in partnership with clients ensures that changes are implemented speedily with competitive advantage.

 

Free Learning Resources and materials for Business Management and Organisation Change 

 

To read through my variant of change management access a HUGE selection of published articles here››

 

Adding Value
Effective change processes

 

Organisation Design: Clients & Customers: Building a Value Proposition

 

There is simply no better way of building a business than fostering relationships and building strong Partnerships with my clients - everything else is secondary.  My belief is to offer a value proposition to my Clients which cannot be bettered by others.

 

Listening to the Client and preparing tailored courses of actions is central to any strategy for change.  Further focusing on outcomes, essentially behavioural,  financial and performance outcomes is high on the change agenda.

 

Client Bonding & Chemistry - The Trusted Advocate

 

There are two things important in building a consulting relationship with your Client.  They are Chemistry and TimingChemistry is the most important because it is the foundation of the relationship and the bond that unites. 

 

If you have Chemistry - the Timing for a project can often be wrong but the relationships persists.  Timing without Chemistry is doomed to failure.

 

Developing an authentic relationship based on mutual trust is the investment that I bring to the Client to support us through the challenges and opportunities of change.

 

That Authentic relationships does not just happen.  it's based on mutual problem solving and understanding things from the perspective of the Client.

 

Client Gap Analysis

 

Providing a clear outline of how things can change from 'current' to 'future' is my focus.  That means clearly assessing how things operate today.  That means listening, empathising and understanding the Client's business rather than selling a packaged solution.

 

I work with my Client to resolve any issues firstly agreeing the diagnostics to assess the current situation, secondly testing for understanding of the 'desired state' in precise terms and then agreeing and partnering the client group through taking action to manage that gap. (See below)

 

 

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Current

Gap

Desired Future

Culture Change

 

 

 

 

Leadership

 

 

 

 

Matrix Redesign

 

 

 

 

Organisation Design & Transformation

 

 

 

OD, Diagnostics & Business Change

 

 

 

 

Coaching, Mentoring & Development

 

 

 

 

Team Psychometrics

 

 

 

 

Learning Strategies

 

 

 

 

 

 

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