CONSULTING
Make collaboration work better
Today’s biggest challenges cross teams, organisations and sectors, bringing together different priorities, responsibilities and ways of working.
Value chain collaboration
Valcon helps you bring the right people together around a shared goal and make collaboration work in practice – improving decision-making, reducing inefficiency and delivering better outcomes across organisational boundaries.
Talk to our Chain Collaboration specialists
Whatever your challenge, our specialists can help you find a clear way forward. Talk to us about what you want to achieve and how we can help make it happen.
Associate Partner
Lieke van Kleffens
81% of executives say work is increasingly performed across functional boundaries.
Source: Deloitte
COLLABORATION
Better outcomes start with better collaboration
Working together sounds simple. Making it work in practice rarely is.
Different organisations and teams bring their own objectives, processes and priorities. When these aren’t aligned, decisions take longer, resources are wasted and opportunities to improve services, reduce costs or innovate can be missed.
We help everyone get clear on the challenge, understand where priorities and interests differ and agree how to move forward together – creating stronger collaboration and better results across the whole chain.
Helping you make collaboration work
Create a shared ambition
We bring partners together, understand different needs and priorities and create a shared ambition that everyone can get behind.
Design the right way to work together
We turn that ambition into a clear way of working, with agreed objectives, governance, roles and responsibilities and the processes and systems needed to support it.
Put it into practice
We help translate the design into practical changes across organisations, processes and systems, supported by clear information, communication and change management.
Embed and improve
We help put new ways of working into practice, see what’s working and what isn’t and make improvements as the collaboration develops.
What success looks like
Our Chain Collaboration service helps you with:
Alignment
Align organisations and teams around shared objectives
Prioritisation
Improve visibility of priorities and dependencies.
Governance
Establishing clear governance, roles and decision-making.
Strengthen communication
Streamlining information sharing across organisational boundaries.
People
Making better use of people, knowledge and resources.
Deliver
Delivering better outcomes for customers and end users.
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Case Study
Keeping critical Mendix applications secure, stable and business-ready
Situation A leading provider of fuel distribution services needed reliable ongoing support for its Mendix application landscape after the initial development phase. Once the applications were live, the client needed a consistent way to manage periodic updates, user requests, monitoring and bug fixes. Without active support, issues could disrupt production workflows, slow down users and…
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Using a cloud platform to accelerate AI and data product delivery in construction
Situation A leading European construction and civil engineering company had ambitions to become more data driven and be able to scale the creation of data and AI products. But building the required data infrastructure and platform manually was not a viable option. The scale of the company’s ambition meant they needed a more better way…
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Faster project delivery and stronger forecasting for a leading energy infrastructure provider
Situation A leading provider of Denmark’s electricity and gas transmission was dealing with rapid growth and greater complexity in its external environment. Its technology infrastructure was growing rapidly to deal with these challenges, but its project execution capability was limited and not growing at the same rate. As a result, these pressures were exposing issues…
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Improving delivery control for major railway renewal projects
Situation A leading provider of railway infrastructure management was responsible for complex railway renewal projects. It needed to improve control over the projects that were running late and were over budget, due to problems with project delivery. Teams needed a systematic way to track progress and spend, understand where any work was being blocked and…
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Creating programme visibility during a large-scale banking separation
Situation A leading provider of financial services and customer credit products in the UK retail sector needed to build its own banking capability while migrating customers away from its parent bank within a fixed timeframe. The separation involved multiple stakeholders, third parties and interdependent workstreams, creating the need for greater programme control, stronger governance and…
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Building a product-centric data, analytics and AI operating model in the defence industry
Situation A leading defence organisation’s technology function was not delivering the expected business value. Inconsistent processes, inefficient delivery and embryonic data, analytics and AI maturity were creating complexity and limiting the organisation’s ability to function as effectively as it might. The company needed a product-centric operating model for data, analytics and AI that could reduce…
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Building a scalable data platform for BI, data science and AI use cases in the construction industry
Situation Our client, a leading European construction company, had several classic data warehouses to house its data. But this set up was limiting its ability to share data and scale new use cases across the organisation. To become more data driven, the business needed a platform that could support its existing reporting requirements, while creating…
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Building a clear data roadmap for governance and security in the heating engineering industry
Situation A leading provider of heating and hot water solutions needed a clearer view of how its data could support its business goals and also needed help to make better use of its new data platform. The company lacked a clear vision and strategy for its data. It needed to define how it wanted to…
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Building trusted product data to reduce regulatory risk and improve sales visibility
Situation A leading provider of assistive products and solutions for mobility, patient handling and daily living needed stronger control of its product data as the sector’s regulatory demands increased. Due to fragmented systems and data repositories, the company did not have a clear view of where the relevant data was held across systems and subsidiaries…
WHY VALCON
Why organisations choose Valcon
At Valcon, we combine consulting, data, technology and AI expertise.
We work alongside you to turn strategy into action, helping you deliver early results while building the capabilities needed for long-term success.
We combine strategic thinking with practical delivery, helping you move from AI ambition to measurable business outcomes.
Talk to our specialists
Whatever your challenge, our specialists can help you find a clear way forward.
Talk to us about what you want to achieve and how we can help make it happen.