HEL Management was founded to support organisations in managing the journey from high-flying ambitions to day-to-day execution when it comes to business development, IT transformations and project management.

We are your trusted Strategy & Transformation partner, helping your organisation to see the full picture, plan for success and make the right step-by-step decision execution. 

We extend your internal transformation team by bringing the right mix of competence and experience in relevant expertise domains.

We are appreciated for bringing unbiased advisory truly at your side. We are the pragmatic management consultants that make this happen. Based on a first principles approach, we help you focus on the most important aspects to manage the transformation journey.

Business Strategy

HEL provides expertise within business architecture with focus on helping your organization align business operations with its strategic objectives.

We provide a holistic approach, translating business strategy into capabilities, value streams and business processes.

We collaborate with your organization to identify gaps and drive innovation across multiple business process domains:

• Marketing & Sales

• Manufacturing

• Supply Chain

• Sourcing & Procurement

• Finance

• HR

• Products/Services Innovation

• Sustainability

• Quality

Enterprise Architecture

HEL provides expertise within Enterprise architecture (EA), bridging business architecture and technology design by ensuring that your organization’s business systems,  IT infrastructure and information flows are strategically aligned with your business goals.

How HEL help our clients improve their Enterprise Architecture (EA) practices:   

• Improved Business-IT alignment. HEL collaborates with your team to establish a roadmap that aligns technology initiatives with business objectives. By translating business goals into IT requirements, EA creates a coherent connection between what the business needs and what the technology delivers, ensuring targeted and effective IT investments.

• Better decision-making. HEL helps your organization to gain a holistic EA view; encompassing business processes, information flows, applications, and technology infrastructure. We help our clients to better understand how different components interact and support each other, thereby enabling better decision-making going forward.

• Reduced risks and costs. HEL provides advisory within EA to help you identify and mitigate risks associated with IT investment projects. By ensuring that technology solutions are robust and aligned with business needs, EA reduces the likelihood of project failures and associated risks. Furthermore, streamlined processes and information flows lead to increased efficiency, reduced costs, and better resource utilization.

• Standardization and Integration. HEL works together with your internal team to identify opportunities for standardized processes and systems to reduce complexity and enhance interoperability, making it easier to implement new technologies and scale operations.

• Innovation & Agility. HEL helps you create a more flexible and adaptive enterprise architecture, enabling your organization to respond quickly to market changes and emerging opportunities.

• Implement changes successfully. HEL supports your organization’s change and transition activities for successfully implementing new technologies and processes in a structured manner.

• Improved Governance. HEL helps you establish practices to ensure that your technology initiatives promote accountability and meets business requirements. Furthermore, HEL collaborate with your team to ensure that IT projects meet regulatory compliance requirements.

Project Management

HEL provides project management ensuring effective planning, execution, and delivery, tailored to meet the unique needs of your projects.

HEL provides effective Project Management to help safeguard your project success: 

• Project Planning. HEL works with project owner, stakeholders and implementation partners to establish and follow-up on project planning.

• Project Execution & Delivery Coordination.  HEL provides daily coordination within project team, collaborate with client organization and implementation partners,  to ensure effective work progress and safeguarding of project deliverables. 

• Project Governance. HEL helps setup and lead project governance forums for executive project steering, change control management and operational execution.

• Stakeholder Engagement. HEL ensures collaboration and communication with key stakeholder groups such as project owner, steering group, business & IT stakeholders, receiving local organization, and implementation partner key individuals. 

• Project Communication. HEL helps establish and execute on an effective communication plan, ensuring clear and consistent communication among team members and stakeholders through defined communication channels.

• Decision-facilitation. HEL collaborates with your team to establish decision material. We engage with your management team to facilitate and drive effective decision-making. 

• Risk Management. HEL collaborates with project team, project owner and partners to identify project risks and manage mitigation activities.

• Project Reporting. HEL helps track and communicate work progress and project costs.  

Agility

Agile is important because it enhances flexibility, speeds up delivery, and fosters continuous improvement. It enables organizations to quickly adapt to market changes, meet customer needs more effectively, and drive innovation.

However, Agile should be implemented with a pragmatic mindset, to leverage the benefits of agile ways-of-working based on where it really adds value. Organizations should find a balanced approached implementing the right set of practices for their needs.

Fundamentally, Agile is based on sound principles of collaborative teamwork, customer-centricity and incremental deliveries to de-risk execution.

HEL provides Agile experts with experience within well-known Agile methodologies and frameworks such as Scrum, SAFe and more. Contact us to learn more on how to scale agile initiatives successfully within your organization.

HEL help sour clients promote and implement agile ways-of-working: 

• Agile Culture and Mindset Building. Fostering an Agile mindset, emphasizing values such as collaboration, adaptability, and a focus on delivering value.

• Customer-Centricity.  Prioritizing and aligning with customer needs, ensuring that activities are focused on delivering value to the customer.

• Empowered and Autonomous Teams.  Empower teams to make decisions, take ownership of their work, and continuously improve their processes.

• Cross-Functional Teams. Form cross-functional teams with diverse skills required for end-to-end product or service delivery.

• Adaptive Planning. Plan in short cycles, adjusting plans based on changing priorities, customer feedback, and market conditions.

• Iterative and Incremental Delivery. Embrace iterative development cycles and deliver increments of value regularly to gather feedback and adapt quickly.

• Information Transparency. Foster a culture of openness and transparency, ensuring that information about work, progress, and impediments is readily available to all.

• Collaboration and Communication. Encourage frequent and open communication within and between teams, fostering collaboration and shared understanding.

• Continuous Improvements. Foster a culture of continuously improving ways-of-working. 

• Agile Portfolio Management. Managing a portfolio of projects and initiatives in an agile way, including techniques for prioritizing work and allocating resources.

• Agile Project Management. Creating and managing product backlogs, sprint planning, helping teams deliver incremental value in a more flexible manner.

Benefits

HEL advisory services helps accelerate your transformation efforts, leading to increased business benefits, new capabilities, improved processes and reduced costs. 

Accelerator roles

In our experience, in order to succeed with  a change journey,  there are several key roles that can help accelerate work. 

Together we compose a great team, where HEL acts as an extension and complement to your internal team in one or multiple roles. 

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