Our Services

Critical Thinking, Analysis and Challenge

Vedette has developed a series of tools and methods, informed by our experience in the field. We combine this hands-on experience with insights from cutting edge business analysis, academic research, and military and emergency service doctrine. These allow our team to build bespoke solutions and combinations of techniques to precisely fit each of our projects, allowing us to deliver customised solutions for our clients whilst following the Vedette guiding principles.

These tried and tested techniques support you to:

Optimise your decision options by better understanding your organisation, your competitors, and the complex environment you operate in.
Maximise the likelihood of success by testing and refining plans.
Make the right call by shaping the decision process and focusing on what matters.
Execute decisions and plans effectively by carefully structuring and constantly assessing delivery.
Measure your impact more effectively and learn and apply lessons.
Improve your people, your processes, and your organisation.

  • Understand:

    Our expertise and tools build you a realistic, rounded picture of your competitive landscape. Our benchmarking and trend analysis help you understand your current operating environment; our horizon scanning and technology futures help you set clear objectives, and our dynamic competitor analysis forecasts how your competitors might react. We also help you understand your own capabilities better: we model your systems to understand their strengths and vulnerabilities, we assess your decision-making processes, and review your risk registers, emergency plans, and wider resilience.

  • Plan & Refine:

    We are experienced planners – we can support you in designing an operating model for any part of your organisation. We are particularly strong in analysing, challenging and improving plans, either through delivering wargames and simulations to tease out weaknesses and risks, or through our unique Critical Thinking, Analysis and Challenge (CTAC) approach.

  • Decide:

    Our clients regularly use our wargames, structured workshops, and scenario-based simulations to compare and contrast different potential options, informing their decisions at critical points. We have also developed an innovative ethical decision support tool – helping you to better understand the ethical implications of your decisions.

  • Deliver:

    Our team are expert in managing the delivery of complex projects, managing difficult stakeholder relationships, and achieving results on time and under budget. We also regularly act as a critical friend to our clients, identifying risks and blockers that only an outsider can see. Lastly, we can support your team by identifying specialist expert individuals who will elevate your project’s success.

  • Reflect:

    Our clients appreciate our ability to dispassionately analyse their work – we regularly provide after action reviews, post-mortem analysis, and support them in learning from the good and the bad.

  • Improve:

    Our L&D experience allows us to diagnose where your team could best improve, and deliver immediate impact to improve your business. We offer educational wargaming, leadership and decision-making courses, and coaching and mentoring services as well as structured teambuilding days.