Organisation Design

Projects, programmes and portfolios do not sit in isolation. They are delivered as part of a wider parent organisation.

The question then is - have we optimised our organisation to provide the maximum chances of success? Do we know what our operating model should look like?

Target Operating Model Design

A target operating model (TOM) tells us how the organisation should function.

Designing a target operating model is complex, because the starting point - how the organisation currently functions - is rarely understood. There may be a substantial variance between what is written down in the Quality Management System, and how the organisation actually functions. Bridging these gaps entails a learning phase that must be reflected in the TOM plan.

The March of AI

Generative AI (artificial intelligence) is the latest step in the evolution of complex, high performing algorithms that can generate content. While generative techniques have been around for a long time (AI is not a new thing), with the advent of large and powerful artificial neural nets (ANNs) they have exploded into the public imagination with chat bots such as ChatGPT, closely followed by open source models such as Facebook’s Llama.