Beyond Consulting – How Mindera Goes Further
Consulting is key to how Mindera works – making a difference for our clients beyond the technology we build, says Mindera MD Richard Hilsley.
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We love building relationships and forming genuine partnerships with our clients.
At Mindera, we love building relationships and forming genuine partnerships with our clients. It’s one of the things we like most about the work we do, empathising with your core issues and ambitions and then working hard to deliver results. We see things as an improvement journey, incremental steps forward in the right direction, not rhetoric and big promises.
Mindera Consulting was born with this mindset – to advise, guide and lead on technology solutions and improvements in people and processes that are more systemic. We don’t subscribe to the consultant stereotypes – impersonal, aloof, distanced. Instead, we are true partners delivering the consultative skills that are often needed to support our software engineering teams working within our clients’ organisations, to bring leadership, influence and drive change for the better. We want to make our clients more efficient and productive and build happier places to work.
What improvements do we drive?
The answer, of course, varies, but certainly the benefits we bring reach far beyond software engineering. We look at the whole picture, how the work ‘works’, which poses questions around planning, architecture, delivery processes, organisation design, data, behaviours and culture.
The truth is that these aspects are inextricably linked. Hard-fought improvements in one area alone often fail to register elsewhere to meaningfully turn the dial on speed or cost of delivery or shorten the ‘idea-to-value’ cycle. For example, a well thought out product-based organisation with cross-functional teams able to deliver quickly, can actually mean very little if operating in a bureaucratic, risk averse environment with strict governance controls.
The benefits we bring reach far beyond software engineering.
Leave the campground cleaner than you found it
Mindera Consulting is about driving change. Our purpose is to make our clients a little better in technology delivery and operations than they were the day before, and then repeat. We prefer to avoid the word ‘transformation’ (an overloaded term) and there are rarely many genuine quick wins. Instead, it’s about an improvement journey – one that is open-ended and can adapt. Creating a learning organisation, constantly getting better, is the ultimate goal.
How we work
Through listening, assessment and honest discussion, we form a clear understanding of where you are now and map out where you want to get to. Critically though, we pay a lot of attention to how you’ll get there, which exposes some of the hidden complexity with the current technology landscape, process efficiency, delivery capability and organisational dynamics.
We bring honest advice and experienced leadership, working closely with you to drive long-lasting benefits. Changes are always made WITH you, never TO you.
We know every client is different, so we don’t pretend to have all the answers at the start, but we have the experience to know the best path to follow and the pragmatism to adapt as we take the improvement journey together.
We want to make our clients more efficient and productive and build happier places to work.
Key takeaways
- Mindera Consulting was born to advise, guide and lead on technology solutions and improvements in people and processes that are more systemic.
- We are true partners delivering the consultative skills that are often needed to support our teams working within our clients’ organisations, to bring leadership, influence and drive change for the better.
- The benefits we bring reach far beyond software engineering. We look at the whole picture, how the work ‘works’, which poses questions around planning, architecture, delivery processes, organisation design, data, behaviours and culture.
- Through listening, assessment and honest discussion, we form a clear understanding of where you are now and map out where you want to get to. Critically though, we pay a lot of attention to how you’ll get there.
About the author
Mindera’s Managing Director, Technology Leader and Advisor, Richard Hilsley specialises in strategy, business development and transformation.