Essential Consultancy Services

 

Company Profile

Essential is a small consultancy practice, founded by Bruce Pinnington, a consultant with many years experience in delivering strategic business and IT services. Utilising this experience in conjunction with a small number of experienced colleagues, Essential is able to offer in-depth industry experience at 'small company' fees, through fixed content and/or fixed priced assignments.

Short term, fixed price engagements help to ensure clients derive the best possible value from consultants by maintaining near term, delivery oriented objectives.

Consultants used typically have at least 15 years experience, primarily gained working with blue chip organisations, often supported by management and/or service management qualifications.

Essential is committed to principles of personal learning and improvement, and awareness of and contribution to the development of best practice through membership or affiliation with industry organisations such as the Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply (CIPS) and the IT Service Management Foundation (itSMF). 

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 Supplier Relationship Management

 Strategic Change

Service Management
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Outsourcing Projects

  • Supply market research, and supplier capability evaluations

  • RFI and RFP processes

  • Contract negotiation

  • SLA definitions

Supplier Relationships

  • Objectives

  • Setting style and approach

  • Stakeholder analysis

  • Establishing suitable processes  & management structures

  • Health check assessments of existing relationships

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Change Initiatives

  • Change Agent - facilitator of change

  • Specification, analysis, design, business cases

  • Marketing, promotion and communications

  • stakeholder management

  • implementation management

  • Post implementation reviews

IT Change

  • Independent reviews of IT strategy / architecture papers

  • IT strategy development

  • Requirements analysis

  • Problem project and/or post project reviews.

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Service creation

  • Requirements analysis

  • Process design

  • Contracts / SLA support for customers or suppliers

Service delivery

  • Service improvement

  • Best practice reviews

  • Post incident reviews

  • Business continuity and risk reviews

Management

  • Review of management structures, processes, controls

  • Suitability of organisational design and culture

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For help in creating or developing supplier or technology related services, or for reviewing the effectiveness of exiting services, please contact us: info@essentialcs.co.uk