Strategic sourcing and procurement
Developing, producing and providing:
- market assessments
- sourcing and procurement strategies
- commercial and financial modelling
- performance and partnering models
- business cases
- tender evaluation models
- procurement documents
- Procurement and probity/governance plans
- Initial market enquiries – ROI
- RFx
- Agreements
- Tender evaluation processes (cost, cost/quality and quality)
- Negotiation strategies
- Confidentiality agreements / NDAs
Programme management
Develop: Project methodologies, governance and charter documents including attention to roles, resources, sequencing, risks, quality assurance, monitoring and reporting for the full programme life-cycle.
- Lead: programmes or individual projects or elements of projects.
- Review / quality assurance: Independent probity, QA and review services to ensure compliance and benefits realisation of planned outcomes.
- Programme prioritisation: Analysing and prioritising project information within programme environment to develop options for project planning and implementation.
- Consult: Informing and engaging with key stakeholders to help ensure balanced approaches that are broadly suitable and acceptable.
- Deliver: Active managing, monitoring and reporting on project milestones, quality measures and expenditure against planned requirements.
Commercial risk management
Maze conducts a structured risk assessment process to map your business risk and then set out risk mitigation options to mitigate and manage commercial risk to the change initiative.
Business Process Improvement
MML takes time to understand the drivers for change, map out the business flows and propose alternative more “stream-lined” operational activity that promotes effectiveness and efficiency.
Effectiveness = “doing the right things”
Efficiency = “doing things right”
The pragmatic combination of effectiveness and efficiency results in performance improvement. This improvement is fully realised when combined with staff actualisation through training, coaching and mentoring in commercial management best practice. MML and its business partners deliver results.
Commercial Business Case
Maze has experience in developing and drafting business cases for both private sector sales opportunities and public sector investment opportunities using Treasury’s BBC processes.
Training, coaching and mentoring
Targeted training, coaching and mentoring programmes are either developed in-house or in conjunction with one of our business partners, Just Performance Ltd.