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Transformation Office & Strategic Orchestration

The leadership, governance and rhythm that keep a transformation on strategy and on track to its benefits.

A Transformation Office is the function that runs a transformation as one program: it sets the sequence of work, holds leaders accountable for benefits, and decides what starts, stops or waits. Transformativ stands one up and runs it with you. Our people have led transformation offices on programs of more than $2B.

THE TRIGGERS

Four situations where a Transformation Office changes the outcome

  1. 01

    Our strategy is clear, but execution keeps stalling.

  2. 02

    Multiple vendors, competing priorities, and no single point of accountability.

  3. 03

    The board, a regulator or a shareholder is asking why the benefits haven't landed.

  4. 04

    A new executive needs a credible plan for the first 100 days.

WHAT WE DO

Everything a transformation needs to run as one program

Governance and decision rights

Clear authority over what starts, stops and waits, so decisions get made in the forum and don't drift from meeting to meeting.

A sequenced roadmap

The whole portfolio in one order, with people focused on the work that delivers value soonest. Work that waits stays on the plan with a new start date.

Value office and benefits tracking

Benefits baselined, owned and tracked from day one, so the business case stays live and the board can see progress.

Vendor orchestration

Vendors, integrators and advisers coordinated against one plan and one set of outcomes.

Program cadence and AI-enabled reporting

A steady rhythm of reviews and decisions, with reporting that shows leaders what is moving, what is stuck and why.

Embedded leadership

Senior practitioners who run the office alongside your executives and stay accountable for its results.

TXO MOBILISATION

A fully mobilised Transformation Office in as little as four weeks

TxO Mobilisation is our fast-track framework for standing up a Transformation Office. Depending on scope, we can have a Transformation Office fully mobilised in as little as four weeks, across three phases.

  1. PHASE 1DISCOVER

    Executive alignment, a baseline of capability, risk and value, and a map of stakeholders and vendors.

    • Benefits baseline
    • Risk heatmap
    • Stakeholder map
    • Mobilisation plan
  2. PHASE 2DESIGN

    The office's operating model and cadence, a sequenced roadmap across vendors and initiatives, and the metrics that will govern it.

    • Transformation Office blueprint
    • Integrated roadmap
    • Benefits framework
    • Reporting dashboard prototype
  3. PHASE 3DEPLOY

    The office stood up with leadership and cadence, early initiatives launched for quick wins, and knowledge transferred to your people.

    • Transformation Office in operation
    • Early wins banked
    • Benefits tracking live
    • Capability in place
A TRANSFORMATION OFFICE, RUNNING
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CASE STUDY

A Transformation Office at scale

100+

leaders aligned behind 24 initiatives across five business lines, in a $2B+ banking simplification program

Read the case study →
HOW WE ENGAGE

Three ways to work with us on your Transformation Office

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TxO Mobilisation

We stand the office up fast, then hand it to your people.

Embedded Delivery

We run the office for the life of the program, as part of a wider delivery team.

Managed Capability Service

We run the office as an ongoing managed service, with continuous improvement built in.

QUESTIONS

Common questions about Transformation Offices

A Transformation Office runs a transformation as one program. It sets the order of work across the portfolio, owns the benefits case, coordinates vendors and advisers, and makes the decisions on what starts, stops or waits, so strategy and delivery stay in step.

No. A PMO reports on projects: status, risks and milestones. A Transformation Office has the authority to act on what the reporting shows, reordering work and holding leaders to the benefits they committed to. Many organisations keep their PMO and add a Transformation Office above it.

Depending on scope, we can have a Transformation Office fully mobilised in as little as four weeks. TxO Mobilisation runs in three phases, Discover, Design and Deploy, and early wins are banked during Deploy.

That is your choice. We can hand it to your people once it is running, keep running it for the life of the program, or run it as a managed service. Knowledge transfer is built into every option.

It sequences instead of cancelling. Work is reordered around what is closest to delivering value, and people move to where results are nearest. Projects that wait stay on the plan with a new start date.

Each benefit is baselined at the start, given an owner, and tracked against the business case through the program's regular cadence. Leaders and the board see the same numbers, so the case stays live.

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