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Design your change.

Every project starts with the people the change will affect. We research how their work really gets done, design the change with them, and test it before it scales. Then we help you roll it out and hand everything over.

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Designing change

Managing change means planning the rollout, the comms and the training once the decisions are made. Designing change starts earlier. It means researching how work really gets done, shaping the change with the people it affects, and testing it before it scales.

Managed change compared with designed changeManaged change runs decide, announce, train, hope. Designed change runs listen, design together, test, land. Managed change DecideAnnounceTrainHope Designed change ListenDesign togetherTestLand People shape the changebefore it reaches them. Managed change, decide, announce, train, hope, compared with designed change, listen, design together, test, land Managed Designed DecideListenAnnounceDesign togetherTrainTestHopeLand People shape the change before it reaches them.

It's how good products and services get built. We apply it to change.

How we design change

Five phases, always circling back to improvement.

The Delve method: five phases, discover, define, develop, deliver and improve, run as ten steps, with what we learn feeding the next roundDiscoverDefineDevelopDeliverImproveWhat we learn feeds the next round1 Scopingsession2 Kickoff3 Designresearch4 Opportunitysprint5 Opportunityvalidation6 Conceptsprint7 Conceptvalidation8 Pilotsprint9 Pilotvalidation10 EvaluationThe Delve method in ten steps across five phasesDiscoverDefineDevelopDeliverImprove1 Scoping session2 Kick off3 Design research4 Opportunity sprint5 Opportunity validation6 Concept sprint7 Concept validation8 Pilot sprint9 Pilot validation10 EvaluationWhat we learn feeds the next round

DiscoverResearch the people and the problem.

DefineFrame the opportunity and the outcome.

DevelopDesign the change with the people affected.

DeliverPilot, refine and roll out.

ImproveMeasure, embed and hand over.

Where change lands

Designed around every touchpoint.

We map the whole experience. What colleagues and customers see, and the people, systems and processes behind it. So change works where people meet it.

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The kinds of change we design

AI adoption

Making sure new tools change how people work.

Organisation design

New structures, roles and ways of working, shaped with the teams who'll live in them.

Regulatory change

Including the people side of the EU AI Act: AI literacy, human oversight and transparency.

Programme and service improvement

Training, processes and services redesigned around the people who use them.

How a project works

Scope call

We talk through the change and whether we're the right fit. No charge.

Proposal

A defined outcome, deliverables, timeline and a fixed fee, agreed before we start.

Delivery

Led by Edward, with senior independent specialists chosen for the brief. The people you meet are the people who do the work.

Handover

You keep the research, the designs and the tools. Your team knows how to use them.

Client work

Management training, redesigned

Financial services

We researched and redesigned a management training programme with the managers who take it. It now runs with 1,200 people managers, and feedback rose at least 15% on every measure.

The team ran an efficient, impactful sprint, grounded in research and collaborative ideation. It helped the team take immediate action and change ways of working.
Frank GaineDirector of Insights and Experience, Smartbox
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