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Doug Collyer is Country Manager in UK

Category: Expertise strategy

The Nordic way of working: how does it help emagine Consultants optimise their clients’ operations and boost profits?

By Doug Collyer, Managing Director

How a business is run ultimately determines its success and profitability.

The moment a business leader assumes they have optimised how they operate, including the systems they use, the technology they invest in and their organisational structure, is the minute they start to fall behind competitors.

As we know only too well from more than three decades of delivering high-end business and technology consulting services to the financial sector, there is always room for improvement.

An aspect that is frequently undervalued is a firm's organisational structure and culture, and how it contributes to efficiency and instilling a 'review and improve' mindset.

 

Happy people, happy clients

Our rapidly expanding emagine Consulting group, which operates across 24 locations, is headquartered in Copenhagen and our Danish roots have led us to embrace a Nordic style of working.

The core values of this are based around employee wellbeing through equality and respect in the workplace, an openness towards new ideas and crystal clear communication, fostering effective and supportive work relationships that motivate people and ultimately drive the business ever forwards. It is an approach fostered from the top down.

The old cliché of our people being our strongest asset is, nonetheless, never more true than at emagine.

Here we follow a firmwide policy of only hiring from the top 10% across all our roles, something my colleague Martin Hartley, Group Chief Commercial Officer, explains in the science behind hiring the top 10%.

Hiring the best people and creating a positive working environment leads to our highly skilled teams feeling motivated and it logically follows that happy individuals flourish and deliver the best possible results for our clients.

  Hiring the best people and creating a positive working environment leads to our highly skilled teams feeling motivated and it logically follows that happy individuals flourish and deliver the best possible results for our clients.

 

Five ways that emagine's experts can optimise your operations and profitability:

  • (1) emagine's focus on hiring the best people means that our clients receive the best service at all times. There are no hybrid teams combining 'lower' skilled and 'senior' team members, our clients receive consistent expertise from top consultants whose work to engineer optimisation and increase efficiency for our clients is the best it could be, maximising the potential for reducing costs through inefficiencies.

  • (2) emagine's bespoke agile coaching helps businesses improve productivity, accountability, risk management and prioritisation and encompasses full project lifecycle methodologies to maximise the efficiency of our clients' operations.

  • (3) Supporting clients with highly skilled, outsourced engineering teams through emagine's practice of bestshoring - bringing together bespoke global teams for each project - and also nearshoring, which represents a direct saving by avoiding high-cost locations and using our delivery centres in Poland and India.

  • (4) Through our change management services, whether for short-term or extensive projects, our consultants provide independent oversight to deliver sustainable change, whilst freeing up your time - and time is money. Working with our best professionals will also add value by expanding your team's expertise and expose them to new perspectives.

  • (5) emagine's regulatory work is vital for helping our clients remain ahead of the latest requirements and 100% compliant, thereby avoiding potentially heavy fines.

Some are predicting turbulent times ahead. They may be right - but focus on the most important things and the business will look after itself.

 

A Nordic way of working

At the point where finance and technology intersect, such as investment banking technology, there are endless possibilities to innovate and drive growth. It's an exciting place to be.

One of the great benefits of being part of an international firm is the range of different perspectives it exposes you to.

emagine's expertise and Nordic way of working embraces these different perspectives and approaches in order to solve challenges and power progress, keeping our consultants and, by extension, our clients ahead of the curve.

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