Performance Improvement Consulting

Woodward Consulting specialises in business analysis and hands-on execution of opportunities leading to immediate performance improvement.

We specialise in these key areas:

Business Analysis
Productivity Improvement
Business Transformation
Lean Management
Hands-on execution

What do we offer?

Our consultancy offers clients a distinct value proposition: We can define improvement opportunities and implement solutions quickly, allowing our clients to benefit from our work almost immediately.

The Woodward Consulting Team are experts in Lean Methodology with diverse experience in commercial businesses, public sector organisations, and the third sector. We’ve helped scores of businesses make measurable improvements.

Throughout our assignments, the cornerstone of our work is always Engagement. If a business has an engaged workforce, they can tap into innovative capacity, and ensure the right solutions are implemented and sustained. Engagement is a corn tenant of Lean management practice that we follow, and our clients see it as having enormous value.

In short, Woodward Consulting can give your organisation a competitive advantage, and these leads to:

Cost Leadership – reducing costs can release the capacity to invest in the business.

Quality Differentiation – Improving service delivery or the product experience leading to a better customer experience.

Innovation – Lean management leads to a better positioning to innovate processes, services and products.

Engagement – Empowerment through involvement in continuous improvement, with employees feeling valued.

Reducing Waste - Lowering carbon footprint and increasing resource conservation.

The benefits of performance improvement consulting

In 2017, Innes Auchterlonie, Managing Director of IMRANDD, an asset integrity consulting practice based in Aberdeen, and Andrew collaborated on a researched journal article. The research included 26 above ground mining improvement projects.

Across the 26 improvement projects, roles and responsibilities for performance were defined, more effective processes with key performance measures designed, and shared targets across the operational organization agreed on. Almost every mining project was driven from the production area, rather than head office and, most importantly, responsibility was given to the actual workforce performing the task. In total, these 26 mining projects delivered $300 million in cashable savings and even more if the cash release is included from a reduction in stocks and working capital.

Reference: https://offshoreengineer.oedigital.com/articles/201708/mining-for-ideas-15888

Also see the case studies page - https://woodward-consulting.net/case-studies/

“Andrew was my leadership coach for three sessions. He was a great coach, who helped me identify my strengths and how I can use them in my future career. He was very attuned to my needs and was always flexible in making sure that our sessions focused on the areas that I wanted to work on, but he also brought valuable new perspectives to each of our sessions. I would highly recommend his coaching.”

Lara De Mets

Postgraduate Law student at the University of Edinburgh

“I recently started working Andrew as my coach. Andrew is thoughtful, challenging and I particularly valued the questions he asked that helped me to see for myself that I needed to look at a certain situation from a different perspective ... letting me work out the solution for myself rather than telling me what he thinks I should do.
I always look forward to our sessions together and have seen a change in my confidence, vision and energy over the time we have been working together”

Andy Kierney

Head Of Financial Control at Ocado Group

“Andrew is a superlative coach. The combination of his own experience and expertise, coupled with being a sincere and genuinely kind and lovely person, means not only do you instantly build a rapport with him, but his guidance is also consistently valuable and relevant. Not only would I highly recommend Andrew, I would also count him as a friend and mentor now.”

Thomas Webb

Chief Executive Officer – Ethical Healthcare Consulting CIC

Great coach! Our 5 sessions helped me clarify my objectives for the coming years and define strategies to reach my goals. Highly recommended!

Nathalie Rochefort

Sir Henry Dale fellow, Chancellor's fellow at The University of Edinburgh

Working with Andrew gave me the time and space to focus on making decisions about what I actually wanted and what steps I needed to take to get where I wanted to go. His gentle focussed questions made me step back and think differently and as a result I am looking at a new future.

It’s also interesting working with a coach who has a different background. I enjoyed that aspect very much, so don't narrow your options to your own sector!

Anne Cooper

Non-Executive Director at Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust

"I Was A Little Apprehensive Prior To Engaging Woodward Consulting Because We Are A Small Service-Based Business Rather Than A Large Oil And Gas Related Manufacturer. However I Was Reassured On Meeting Andrew, Who Has A Wide Range Of Experience And Within A Short Period Fully Understood Our Current Business Process And Some Of The Improvements We Could Make"

Jon Proctor & Andrea Nicholas

CEO & MD | Green Tourism

“Without The Support Of Andrew, We Would Have Been Unable To Deliver This Complex Programme Of Work. We Would Have Delayed Recovering Our Investment In Capital Equipment And Perhaps Not Achieved Our Target Benefits At All”

Zain Okhai

Managing Director - Rockwell Solutions Limited

"Working With Andrew To Improve Our Overall Productivity Has Proven To Be A Very Useful Exercise, Opening Us Up To Alternative & Quite Straight Forward Techniques To Reduce Non Productive Time On Our Main Coating Line By A Significant Amount. In Addition To The Highlighted Savings Gained On This Line We Are Continuing With The Methods Learned To Make Other Improvements To Our Productivity In The Factory"

Tim Nattress

Operations Director at Pelikan Hardcopy Limited

"Andrew helped us design, run and review a ‘World Cafe’ event for the Westminster CAF Demonstrator Project. The concept was a new one for us but Andrew explained it well and did a great job in ensuring that the event was effective for our purposes and also did a fantastic job of facilitating the event on the day. Feedback from the day was very positive and we’re looking forward to inviting Andrew back to help us with a similar event in the near future"

James Etheridge

Project Manager for the NHS / Westminster Digital CAF Demonstrator Project

"Very efficient, worked to the task, worked within budget, was receptive and adapatable to change during the task. Was humorous but professional at all times. Had prepared and planned for the task. Kept the audience engaged and focussed at all times."

Tim Dalby

Senior Manager at NHS Digital

“Andrew and I were colleagues for two years running the key Efficiency Programme within the Department of Health. Andrew was a most experienced, reliable and effective consultant, focused on delivery and could operate at all levels and across all structures. His depth of expertise and experience was a major asset to both me and the Department and wherever he operated brought praise and admiration from those he supported.”