We help organisations build enduring risk management capability, improve decision quality and win major bids.

Risk Management is more than a process – it’s a capability. It should be tailored to the programme context, driven by skilled people and should empower the right culture. When set up for success, a risk capability allows the team to exploit data, generate information and provide the insights that are exactly what the leader needs, precisely when they need it.

Insights for risk management, situational awareness and decision-making are produced by a system that’s made up of six key “Risk Capability Building Blocks”. We’ve delivered risk improvements across a variety of programmes and organisations – our POPPIE™ method provides a predictable path to improvement. It helps you to avoid the trial and error of piecemeal initiatives and enables you to focus on decisions and delivery.

We designed this approach to overcome some common industry challenges:

• Risk management is often a tick-box exercise, not an asset.
• Risk processes are often data hungry and information poor
• Risk information fails to reach the right people at the right time to support critical decisions.
• Leaders often struggle to establish an effective risk culture.
• Risk managers often fail to engage teams effectively. 
• There are not many risk leaders with deep expertise in decision quality, risk management, and change implementation.

Using our methods, we can help embed the changes you need to overcome these challenges.

Our approach to improving risk management capability doesn’t stop at designing a workable process – the process has to deliver the insights you need to make decisions with confidence. 

For more information on how we approach risk capability improvement, check out this insight and get in touch to start the conversation.

P3M Leaders regularly face tough decisions where there’s no correct answer. You can’t see around every corner and you can’t please all the people all the time. Whether you’re a decision-maker or decision-enabler, the number of moving parts can result in paralysis or rushed decisions that lead to a dead end.

Great decision-making isn’t about predicting the future – it’s about having the right process for the decision at hand. When you use the best approach for what you know at the time, you can have the best chance of positive outcomes and stand behind your choice regardless of how things turn out. The best processes also work with human nature, not against it. They account for our values, biases and the pressure we’re all under.

That’s Decision Quality.

When faced with an uncertain decision, plot a COURSE(™).

Our COURSE™ framework tackles the challenge every P3M leader faces – making critical decisions with incomplete information. It’s grounded in research, proven in practice, and designed for the pressures you actually face.

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When the pressure’s on, you don’t have time to bring your risk team up to speed. That’s where we come in.

We work alongside your bid team as embedded partners, providing targeted risk management support throughout the tendering process. 

Our Bid Risk Sprints are designed to deliver value: we develop risk strategies and management plans and produce high-scoring submission content that aligns with your customer’s priorities.

Our sprint model delivers risk insight exactly when you need it to support critical solution design decisions.

With deep experience supporting tenders subject to the Single Source Contracting Regulations (SSCR), we understand what your customer expects — and how to meet those expectations.

Our team supports you through Appropriate, Attributable, and Reasonable (AAR) testing and builds the evidence base required for defensible Cost Risk Adjustments. We help ensure contract risk exposure is properly understood and justified, strengthening your commercial case.

We also act as trusted representatives in customer engagements, from collaborative working sessions to formal negotiations, providing support you can depend on when the stakes are high.

With direct experience of client-side frameworks, evaluation processes, and stakeholder priorities, we get what matters, anticipate questions before they arise — and we deliver to help you win.

Interested in finding out more? Get in touch to start the conversation.