QV – Our Strategic and Operational Alignment Methodology

- The Quo Vectius (QV)® Make/Buy and Strategic and Operational Alignment Methodology.

- The QV® Methodology is based on rigorous first principles thinking about how-once a strategy has been devised-it can be implemented operationally both internally and externally for an organisation.

- The methodology provides a series of guiding principles about make/buy decisions, so that an organisation can understand the risks, opportunity costs and benefits of insourcing or outsourcing particular operational requirements.

- The methodology also provides a way of thinking-that informs the ioa® and itd® suites of consulting tools-to enable an organisation to understand how to optimise value and processes internally and externally within the organisation.

- To this end the QV® Methodology focuses on internal organisational process design and its alignment with key value requirements within a specific strategy. This is also linked to how benefits are to be realised and the business transformed through effective and efficient change management processes.

- If a decision to outsource is taken the QV® Methodology also provides a rigorous and robust way of thinking about the complex range of external resource management choices available to a buying organisation. A primary focus is on the appropriateness of reactive and proactive approaches to sourcing and relationship management for particular categories of external activity and spend.