Complex Problem Solving

Value Proposition

We provide a structured and collaborative approach to help you tackle complex challenges.

Our interdisciplinary team ensures a holistic analysis, collaborating with key stakeholders for buy-in and development of robust solutions. We help you identify root causes, generate options and build pragmatic plans with measurable results. 

Key Challenges

  • Difficulty in identifying the root cause of complex problems with interconnected factors. Organisations often struggle with unstructured, multifaceted problems that span departments and involve numerous stakeholders. 

  • Navigating uncertainty and ambiguity in high-stakes situations

  • Balancing competing priorities and stakeholder interests. Ensuring stakeholder alignment and buy-in for complex solutions.

  • Lack of diverse perspectives or innovative solutions to address intricate issues. 

  • Difficulty in defining the real issues, generating effective solutions, and implementing changes in complex environments. 

Our Approach

This approach leverages our team's diverse expertise to tackle multifaceted challenges, ensuring thorough analysis and innovative, practical solutions We engage with key stakeholders throughout the process to help ensure solutions are pragmatic and widely accepted

  1. Clearly define and understand the problem, based on data

  2. We use a systematic and collaborative approach to identify the underlying root causes of complex problems

  3. Scenario planning and modelling techniques to explore potential solutions and their long-term implications

  4. Evaluate and prioritise potential solutions based on feasibility and impact

  5. Create an implementation plan for the chosen solution, including a communications plan

  6. Support initial execution and establish feedback mechanisms for continuous learning and refinement

Benefits and Outcomes

  • Gain a clear understanding of the root cause of your complex problems. 

  • Break down silos and foster collaboration across your organisation. 

  • By partnering with us, you'll gain the ability to solve complex problems more effectively and efficiently. Develop innovative and sustainable solutions with lasting impact. 

  • Strategic Alignment: Ensure solutions align with your long-term business goals and objectives. 

  • Stakeholder Engagement: Achieve broad consensus and buy-in from all relevant parties, facilitating smoother implementation

  • You'll develop a problem-solving capability, so you can tackle future challenges independently.

  • Enables cost savings, efficiency improvements and competitive advantage through effective problem-solving capabilities

Why Us

  • Talent: Our postgraduates are on the cutting edge of research, exploring some of the most complex and challenging problems of our time. Our experienced professionals know what works and what doesn’t work, ensuring solutions are fit for purpose.

  • Track record: Proven track record of tackling multifaceted challenges, finding breakthroughs and delivering solutions in large, complex organisations, in highly regulated industries

  • Client centric: We tailor problem-solving approaches to your unique organizational context, constraints, and objectives

  • Innovative thinking: We apply advanced problem-solving techniques, bring different perspectives to bear and generate novel options and solutions

  • Access: to world-leading research at the University of Oxford and extensive industry experience.

  • Commitment: to long-term partnership and on-going support helping to ensure successful implementation and continuous refinement

In addition, we recognise collaboration is key and so work closely with your team to co-create solutions, ensuring buy-in and robust execution planning

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