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New Game-Plan:

  • Catalyses strategic change for global companies, public bodies, and cross-sector groups
  • Enables organisations to build value and gain advantage by improving collaborative working across functional, organisational, or geographical boundaries
  • Integrates the wider experience and capabilities of Team members in project management, research, public policy, stakeholder engagement, and IT
  • Fuses Knowledge, Facilitation Services, a Practical Toolkit and Supporting Technology in an innovative and distinctive approach
  • Founded by Ray Smith in 2000 and continually growing through successful engagements
  • Builds on Ray's early experience in bioscience companies as a scientist, global product manager and business strategist

 

Our team includes:

  • Dr Ray Smith, Founder and Managing Director
  • Dr Alan Woods, Lead Analyst and Public Policy Specialist
  • Mr Mike King, Sustainability and Stakeholder Engagement Specialist
  • Mr Alistair Smith, Technology and Tools Specialist
  • Mr Richard Fox, Learning and Facilitation Specialist
  • Mr Ian Castle, Administration Manager
  • Ms Lois Bentley, Project and Risk Management Specialist

 

All our team members have held senior technical and managerial positions in major organisations and have wide experience. Our team biographies provide further information on our skills and backgrounds.

 

Further consultants and specialists from our pool support specific engagements, bringing complementary skills, sector knowledge and/or experience. We work in partnerships with diverse consultancies and service providers.  These include: The Learning Corporation LLP (design and delivery of training services), and The Consultant Connection Ltd (change management and good practice in Trade Associations).

 

Our capabilities

Our sector expertise

  • Networks and Networking capability
  • Roadmapping and horizon scanning
  • Knowledge Transfer/Exchange
  • Organisational strategy
  • Business transformation
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Training for personal development
  • Managing Research and Innovation

 

  • Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals
  • Nanotechnology
  • Energy
  • Sustainability
  • Integrated Land Management
  • The Food Chain
  • Environmental management
  • Information Technology