What we do, and how it is scoped.

Digital & Data Transformation Advisory

Strategy that survives contact with delivery.

Target operating models, data strategy, roadmap definition and the commercial analysis that has to sit underneath them. Written to be delivered, not to be presented once and shelved.

• Data and digital strategy development, and review of existing strategy
• Target operating model and capability design for data functions
• Roadmap sequencing, dependency and delivery-risk analysis
• Business case, options appraisal and commercial analysis
• Board and committee-ready papers written in plain English

Data Platform Architecture & Cost Optimisation

Design that scales, and a bill that does not.

Platform architecture and cost review across Azure, Databricks, Snowflake, Synapse and Power BI. Consumption-based platforms drift upward by default; reducing spend without losing capability is a design problem, not a procurement one.

• Platform architecture design and independent architecture review
• Cost optimisation: consumption modelling, workload right-sizing, storage tiering
• Migration and modernisation options appraisal (on-premise to cloud, or platform to platform)
• Data integration and pipeline design at portfolio scale
• Vendor-neutral advice — no reseller margin, no platform allegiance

Information Governance & Privacy-by-Design

Get the governance right and the data flows stop stalling.

IG framework design, DPIAs, and privacy-by-design architecture — including pseudonymisation-at-source patterns that have been running in live NHS services for over a decade. Delivered by a former Head of Information Governance, so the advice is grounded in having owned the risk.

• IG framework, policy and operating-model design
• Data Protection Impact Assessments, and DPIA process design
• Pseudonymisation-at-source and privacy-by-design architecture patterns
• Lawful basis, data-sharing agreement and information-sharing review
• UK GDPR / Data Protection Act compliance review and remediation planning
• Support for data-sharing projects that have stalled on governance

Programme & Portfolio Leadership (Interim)

Senior delivery leadership, for as long as you need it.

Interim leadership of data and digital programmes in regulated environments — including recovery of programmes that have lost confidence, and growing delivery teams without losing quality.

• Interim head-of / director-level leadership for data and digital functions
• Programme and portfolio recovery, replanning and assurance
• Team design, capability build and scaling
• Supplier and delivery-partner management
• Assurance reviews and independent gate reviews

ICB & Commissioning Data Support

Built for how commissioning data actually works.

Direct support for Integrated Care Boards and commissioning organisations: population health analytics, data integration across providers, and the governance to make it lawful and usable.

• Population health management and analytics capability development
• Multi-provider data integration and linkage design
• Commissioning data flows, secondary-use governance and DSPT readiness
• Analytical capability and team development within ICBs
• Transformation support for commissioning data functions

Short advisory

An architecture review, a cost-optimisation assessment, a DPIA, a second opinion on a strategy or business case. Fixed scope, fixed fee, written output.

Defined-outcome package

Strategy development, target operating model, IG framework design, platform options appraisal. Milestone-based with an agreed deliverable set.

Interim leadership

Part-time or full-time leadership of a data function or programme, with a defined remit and a planned handover.