Why would I choose Lumos?

Why do you think you can help my business?

Why are you able to charge lower rates?

How do you ensure consistent quality?

Where have you done this before?

What are your core competences and offerings?

Are there any sectors in which you specialise?

How do you engage with clients?

Where does the name Lumos come from?

Why would I choose Lumos?

There are many reasons to choose Lumos:

• We have abroad and diverse range of experience to draw upon, our people are typically experts with at least 20 years’ business experience, we do not use juniors or graduates straight out of college

• Lumos is transparent to clients so that we build up rapid trust with you

• We have no sacred cows, we believe in robust exchanges to facilitate open debate

• Lumos is simply better value than firms using the traditional consultancy model.

Lumos is changing the face of consultancy.

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Why do you think you can help my business?

We don’t know if we can definitely help, until we have met you and explored areas where you require help and advice. We then illustrate in a proposal how we can help, clearly showing the benefits that our assistance could bring to your company.

Our collective experience of many industries and organisational cultures makes us confident that we can help in many situations. We apply this rich knowledge and experience to your needs.

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Why are you able to charge lower rates?

We operate a low cost model to keep rates low and value high, entailing:

• Extreme discipline in cost control

• Use of latest technology to drive low-cost infrastructure

• No salaried positions

• Business expenses are strictly limited and controlled

This model is built into the business to be sustainable for the long term.

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How do you ensure consistent quality?

We adopt a strict Control Governance to all our deliverables and identified outcomes. Having met with you, and identified the areas we can help – we will agree with you the detailed outcomes from our work. These will be included in a timetable which we will transparently manage with you.

At regular stages throughout this timetable, there will be ‘Control Gates’, where progress to date, identified interim deliverables, and the plan to achieve the next Control Gate, will be subject to review. We will ask you the client to review this checkpoint from three perspectives; 1) Quality, 2) Adherence to Corporate Strategy and 3) Adherence to the achievement of the agreed Outcomes.

We are happy at any time throughout our engagement with you, over and above the Control Gates described above, for you, as the client, to bring in independent auditors from an outside organisation to review our progress, interim deliverables, and proposed outcomes.

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Where have you done this before?

Lumos Managing Partners and Associates are not onlookers or theoreticians; we have all got our hands dirty in hundreds of years of practical business experience, carrying out:

• Sector-and business-based needs analysis

• Design of many successful market strategies

• Holistic and specific risk and liability analyses

• Creation of customer base of more than 100 new name companies

• Execution of large-scale business and IT integration programmes

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What are your core competences and offerings?

Functional core competencies include:

• Change management

• Enterprise-wide and specific risk review and analysis

• Event Management

• External and Internal corporate communications

• IT management

• Performance and change management

• Sales & Marketing

• Sector development and analysis

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Are there any sectors in which you specialise?

In-depth sector competencies include:

• Financial Services
• Public Sector
• Information Technology
• Defence

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How do you engage with clients?

We seek face-to-face discussions at senior level, to establish rapport and feasibility based on this, we provide an outline proposal free of charge. We work with you to define the objectives of the engagement in writing. We then share a common understanding of what success means. We are prepared to factor in a risk and reward element to any long-term assignment. We apply ourselves enthusiastically and diligently to the execution of the task.

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Where does the name Lumos come from?

Lumos! is the spell used by wizards in the Harry Potter books to illuminate their wands and shed light into the darkness.

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