Your organisation is the system. We make it work as one.
We combine the science of human performance with the power of technology to design, build and run organisations that work as one coherent system.
The science of
human performance.
The power of
technology.
ContributorsOne System
of WorkTechnology &
Governance
The science of human performance. The power of technology.
How people perform and how technology runs their work are fundamentally interdependent, yet they are frequently designed independently. We bring deep expertise in both. Engage either practice on its own, or bring them together to design your organisation as one system.
How people and organisations perform.
Advisory grounded in the science of human performance and our 42-capability Organisation Maturity Model, from first diagnostic to whole-organisation change.
- Organisation design
- Workforce effectiveness
- Capability and leadership
- Reward and HR foundations
The engineering that makes work run.
Automation, AI and digital infrastructure that execute, coordinate and scale work, led by our NasIQA platform, which already supports more than 100,000 employees.
- Process automation
- Applied AI
- Governance and explainability
- The NasIQA platform
Together, they do what neither can alone.
Human performance + Technology = one system of workEach practice delivers value on its own. Integrating them adds what only comes from designing people and technology together.
Intelligent allocation of work
Each task goes to the right actor, whether people, automation or AI, decided by evidence about the work rather than by habit.
A sustainable organisational configuration
Structure, roles, capacity and systems set up to hold under pressure, and adjusted as conditions change rather than redesigned in a crisis.
Clear accountability across the system
Ownership of how work gets done is explicit across people, process and technology, so nothing falls between HR, IT and the business.
Technology changes the work. Changing the work changes the organisation.
Most organisations are investing in technology. Fewer are investing as much in the people and governance it depends on. Choose where your investment goes, or reflect where it goes today, and watch what happens to a high-value sale.
- Technology steps
- Human steps
- Waiting at hand-offs
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Different symptoms. One underlying system.
Successful, well-led organisations still feel friction where structures, processes, technology and decision-making meet. Each symptom lands with the function closest to it, and is fixed there.
Switch views to see what connects them.
Owned by IT
New technology is live, but the benefits are slow to arrive.
Usually treated as an adoption and training problem.
Were roles, skills and processes redesigned around the technology, or asked to absorb it?
Owned by Operations
Each step is automated, yet the work end to end is still slow.
Usually treated as an automation backlog.
Who owns the whole outcome, and is the right actor doing each step?
Owned by the leadership team
Approvals travel further than the work does.
Usually treated as a structure problem, met with another restructure.
Do decision rights sit where the information and the work now are?
Owned by HR
Strong people spend their best effort working around the system.
Usually treated as a performance or engagement problem.
What is the structure asking of people that the work itself does not?
Owned by every function, separately
Every function is improving. Shared outcomes are not.
Usually treated as a coordination problem, met with another committee.
Who owns the fundamental question of how work is done?
Each has a sensible owner and a sensible fix. The friction persists.
Seen together, they are one question about how the organisation is configured. That is where we start.
Evidence, not promises
From organisational insight to operational reality.
Our experience spans organisational design, workforce performance, commercial advisory and enterprise technology. We connect strategic insight with practical implementation, helping organisations put new operating models into practice and sustain them.
Human Performance
Dossier 01Digital commerce · Organisation design
Designing the organisation for billion-dollar scale.
$1bn
Sovereign wealth funding behind the client
Organisation design and operating-model development for a hypergrowth regional e-commerce startup, supporting the establishment of organisational structures and operating arrangements for a rapidly scaling digital business.
- Capability demonstrated
- Enterprise organisation design and operating-model architecture
Technology & Operations
Dossier 02Enterprise services · Workforce operations
Orchestrating the employee lifecycle at enterprise scale.
100,000
Employees within the operating environment
100+Business units
A redesigned HR operating model for a diversified enterprise services organisation, with automation delivered as a service at every touchpoint from hire to retire: visa management, government services and the reconciliation of $100m in daily cash movements through the banking system.
- Capability demonstrated
- Enterprise process orchestration, automation and operational delivery
Our method · Organisation Maturity Model
42 organisational capabilities. One integrated perspective.
Our Organisation Maturity Model provides a structured framework for examining organisational capabilities, identifying constraints and understanding how different aspects of an organisation interact.
Human Performance · Further assignments
Experience across the systems that determine performance.
Developing an education group operating model.
Ongoing work for an institutional asset owner on organisational effectiveness and the conditions for sustainable operational improvement.
Ongoing engagement
Connecting reward with commercial performance.
Reward and sales incentive design linked to revenue growth, for a 4,000-employee diversified consumer goods group.
Establishing a regional procurement operating model.
Operating-model design to establish a regional medical procurement group purchasing organisation.
Building better evidence for reward decisions.
Specialist benchmarking groups for sectors that standard surveys serve poorly, supporting better-informed pay decisions.
Hospitality group running; education groups being set up
The work doesn’t end when the recommendations are delivered.
Our work connects advisory insight with practical implementation. Whether we’re designing an operating model, aligning workforce incentives, engineering automation or supporting ongoing operations, our focus is on making change work in practice.
See how we workHow we work
Begin where it makes sense for you.
We don’t arrive with a predetermined solution or lead with technology. We begin by understanding your organisation and the nature of its work, then engage only the stages it needs.
Human Performance advisoryFor leaders reshaping structure, roles, capability or reward. Usually begins with the diagnostic.Technology servicesFor organisations ready to automate or govern work at scale. Begins with understanding the work, not the tool.The integrated modelFor organisations redesigning how work is done end to end. Both practices from the first conversation.
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01Typically includedWhere needed
Understand
The organisational questions behind the brief, and what success looks like.How the work flows today, and where automation or AI genuinely fits.People, processes and systems, seen together from the start.
Business context, objectives, operating conditions and organisational challenges.
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02Typically includedWhere needed
Diagnose
Usually the starting point: the diagnostic.Available when the question is wider than the technology. Not a precondition.One shared evidence base for both practices to design from.
Structured evidence and assessment, to see how the organisation actually works.
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03Typically includedWhere needed
Design and configure
Organisation design, capability and reward arrangements.Processes, governance and NasIQA configured around how you work.The right actor for each task: a person, an automation or AI.
The arrangements, capabilities, processes, technology and governance that sustainable outcomes require.
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04Typically includedWhere needed
Implement and operate
Support to embed change, up to fractional leadership where it helps.NasIQA in live operation, with managed operations where appropriate.Operate, measure and keep recalibrating within a sustainable range.
Embed change, run technology or managed operations where appropriate, and keep adapting.
A different conversation
Perhaps it’s time to look at your organisation differently.
We would value your perspective. Challenge our thinking, tell us where you see things differently, and let’s explore what a more coherent operating model might make possible.
An exploratory conversation, not a sales call.