WORKING WITH BLACKTIDE

The right support.
For your next move.

A fresh perspective, a defined piece of work or experienced capability alongside your team. Start with the problem and shape the engagement around it.

THE PERSPECTIVE

Fit the engagement
to the challenge.

Not every challenge needs the same kind of support. You may need an independent recommendation, someone to own a specific deliverable or experienced capacity within an existing team.

We discuss the outcome you need, the decisions ahead and your existing capability before agreeing how to work together. The options below are starting points for that conversation, with scope, responsibilities and commercial arrangements agreed individually.

IN PRACTICE

Three ways
to move forward.

01

Advisory & discovery

Useful when a decision needs an independent view, the problem needs a clearer definition or a roadmap needs a practical next step. Work can focus on discovery, requirements, options appraisal, delivery review or analytical investigation.

02

Focused delivery

Useful when you have a defined piece of work and need specialist expertise and ownership. This might be a technology workstream, a reporting improvement, an analytical investigation or a security change initiative.

03

Embedded expertise

Useful when your team needs experienced capacity through a period of change. The role can support project and programme leadership, portfolio planning, security delivery or analytical work within an existing team.

CONNECTED THINKING / PRACTICAL DELIVERY

Agree the essentials.
Then get to work.

The first conversation should help both sides understand the challenge and whether there is a useful fit.

01

The business need

What you want to achieve, why it matters and what has already been tried.

02

The delivery context

Who is involved, the timescale, dependencies and the capability already available.

03

The working agreement

Scope, responsibilities, deliverables, working pattern and commercial arrangements.

BEFORE WE BEGIN

A few useful
questions.

What does an engagement cost?

Commercial arrangements depend on the scope, responsibilities and working pattern. We discuss the requirement before proposing an approach, rather than publishing a price that may not fit the work.

What if we are not sure what we need?

That is a useful place to start. Describe the challenge at a high level and the decision or outcome you are seeking. A short discovery conversation can help define the next step.

What is the best way to enquire?

Email contact@blacktide.co.uk, or use the project brief builder to organise your thoughts and open a draft in your email app. Please leave confidential or sensitive information out of the initial enquiry.

YOUR NEXT STEP

Make it relevant
to your challenge.

Tell us what you are navigating. Start with a conversation or use the brief builder to organise your thoughts.

START WITH A CONVERSATION

What are you
navigating?

A decision to make. A programme to move forward.
A risk to address. A story hidden in your data.

Email BlackTide
contact@blacktide.co.uk

BASED IN WORCESTERSHIRE.
WORKING WITH TEAMS ACROSS THE UK.

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A CLEARER STARTING POINT

Let’s shape
your brief.

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