Sopra Group's Consulting teams focus on delivering successful ICT-enabled business change and pragmatic risk management outcomes for our clients.

The success of any business transformation project relies not only on identifying the right paths ahead and the best-fit business solutions, but in order to allow benefits to be realised and risks to be managed, the early identification of the opportunities and potential pitfalls is critical.

Sopra Group's breadth of consulting capabilities and lifecycle approach mean that we are ideally placed to assist our clients at all stages of their transformation programmes. This includes working within our clients' business teams for business-led initiatives but also, through our dedicated our Information Services and Business (ISB) team, we assist CIOs and IT Departments to provide support and guidance for their own programmes of work.

The value contained in the experiences of our staff can be brought to bear through a set of approaches that have evolved to best support a collaborative approach with our clients. This allows us to work with our customers to be successful when making choices and when shaping the way forward to meeting their goals. Our methods are built upon well-established techniques such as Lean-Thinking and Kaizen but are adapted from experience and the particular needs of our customers.

When engaging with a client, as well as drawing from our Sopra Consulting organisation, a multi-nation management consulting group of over 500 consultants which has been operating since 1975, we would also look to include those involved in the operation delivery of our core services to bring a real, practical and pragmatic focus to the issues in hand.

Our Expertise

As well as supporting business change, our consultants can provide insight into how our core areas of expertise can bring value to business issues. Some examples of this are:

• Ensuring your data works for you though our Business Intelligence Consultants
• Risk and Security assessments  from our Security Consultants
• Exploitation of Spatial Information for Business Benefit by our Geographic Informations Systems Consultants
• Increasing Agility and reducing cost and reducing risk through application of testing disciplines and techniques by our Testing Consultants
• Building the blueprint for your business technology change through our Enterprise Architecture services
• Defining and de-risking your platform and architectures through System Integration Proof of Concepts and Managed Projects

Our Experience

Our team of experienced consultants have deep sectoral business knowledge in both the Public and Private Sectors with particular skills in Banking and Finance, Government and Utilities both within and outside the UK.

In addition to the business-side team, our Information Services and Business (ISB) team, provides support and guidance to IT Departments irrespective of sector with a portfolio of Service covering:

• IT Stategy – the development of a business focused strategy for IT
• IT Migration – migration of IT and IS systems, often post a merger, to model which would typically incorporate shared services
• Project Portfolio Management – IT Governance Improvements
• IT Department "Industrialisation" – producing "lean" IT processes
• Business Continuity Planning – focused on the functional impact of Business Continuity
• Outsourcing Re-Alignment – based on CMMI, bringing back into focus the Outsourcing Contract, Expectations and actual delivery.

Sopra Group clients can rely on a proven and experienced team experienced in assisting our clients in devising and implementing solutions to the complex issues facing government and industry at a time when resources must be used effectively and efficiently in achieving innovation and commercial advantage.