Balliol-Watt is a specialist consultancy which provides services to support CIOs in the successful transformation and development of their ICT organisations.

Nowadays CIOs strive to improve ICT effectiveness, responsiveness and business contribution, often at the same time as addressing other structural challenges: establishing ICT credibility within the business; rationalising sourcing strategies; consolidating ICT assets and organisations; rationalising or dismantling redundant ICT capacity; forging and focusing international teams. This can be a huge challenge: a challenge in which Balliol-Watt can help you to succeed.

Balliol-Watt’s services are modular, designed to augment and support the knowledge and expertise you already have and fit into your overall change programme. Our involvement is tailored to your requirements and we work either directly with you or as part of your change management team.

Our CIO services are offered at three levels:

Balliol-Watt provides advice on best practice organisational design and implementation, explaining the rationale, exploring its relevance to your particular circumstances and helping you to decide how to blend it with your vision and values.

When driving organisational restructuring it is often difficult to stand back and critically appraise the approach. Balliol-Watt’s impartial assessment helps you to take stock of the current position, confirm the objectives for change and test the robustness of the plans. The range of services provided includes individual assessments, team assessments, objective setting workshops and plan reviews.



Organisational change necessarily entails individuals and teams undertaking new challenges, establishing new relationships and developing new working practices, all without disruption or degradation in service. This can be a big stretch. Balliol-Watt’s team-building and individual coaching helps you build highly performing teams in times of change. The team-building, based on developing a mutual understanding, and supportive working practices, is available in a wide variety of contexts ranging from workshop discussion to outdoor activity. Individual coaching, which helps you and your team to discover the focus, resolve and resources to surpass your expectations, is goal-focused, non-directional and developmental.