Consulting
Digital transformation for businesses that run on physical operations
Most transformation programmes do not fail on strategy. They fail in the gap between the slide deck and the shift that has to use the thing. I work in that gap.
01
2–3 weeks
Transformation diagnostic
A structured look at where your operation actually loses money and time: interviews on the floor, a map of the manual workarounds, and a shortlist of what to digitise first. Ends with a prioritised sequence and an honest view of what is not worth doing.
- — Operations and systems map
- — Ranked opportunity list with effort and value
- — A recommended first release
02
4–8 weeks
Digital product strategy
Turning that shortlist into something a team can build and a board can fund. Scope, success metrics, commercial model and a roadmap where the first milestone produces a measurable result rather than a status update.
- — Product definition and scope
- — Metric framework tied to P&L
- — Roadmap and build-vs-buy calls
03
Project-based
IoT & data instrumentation
Making the physical side legible: what to sense, what to meter, which hardware to specify, and how the data becomes billing, safety or capacity decisions instead of an unread dashboard.
- — Device and connectivity specification
- — Vendor evaluation and pilot design
- — Data model and decision workflows
04
Ongoing, part-time
Delivery leadership
Embedded product leadership while you build internal capability — running discovery, holding scope, working with vendors, and keeping adoption on the agenda from day one rather than at launch.
- — Discovery and delivery cadence
- — Vendor and stakeholder management
- — Adoption and rollout plan
A good fit when
- You have physical operations and thin data
- A transformation programme has stalled at execution
- You are specifying your first connected product
- Software exists but nobody uses it
Probably not when
- You want a resource to execute a fixed spec
- The decision has already been made and needs endorsement
- Pure consumer app work with no operational layer
Start with a conversation, not a proposal
Thirty minutes on what is actually stuck. If I am not the right person, I will usually know within the first ten and say so.