Government and security
Administrations face numerous challenges, including the need for ‘better for less’, transparency, data security, increasing digital access, and constant change, whether local, national or global.
Administrations face numerous challenges, including the need for ‘better for less’, transparency, data security, increasing digital access, and constant change, whether local, national or global.
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Business Development Manager
London, United Kingdom
+44 (0)20 7062 5838 defence-security.das@bmtglobal.comGovernments face complex challenges when designing new policies and procedures, ranging from value for money to transparency and accountability – we provide expert support and guidance at every stage.
We support departments and agencies throughout the visioning, decision-making, planning and implementation process. From analysing the problem to evaluating the options, we enable the visioning and policy-making process. By offering insight into cost, feasibility, and risk, we provide the necessary information to make informed decisions.
We provide resources to direct and manage the planning and implementation stages, which often involve complex and large-scale organisational change. We work closely with agencies and authorities to inform policy-making and embed best practices.
Our flexible and agile approach has allowed us to provide strategic planning and guidance to national and local governments worldwide.
We deliver consultancy and technical advice to governments across the world throughout the programme and project lifecycle.
We work alongside you to help manage the balance between requirements and constraints, delivering benefits in the most effective manner. We leverage our expertise in managing complex programmes across many industry sectors to support the provision of efficiency, reliability and value for many government services.
We constantly endeavour to transfer our knowledge and expertise, enabling you to continue to benefit from our support long after our intervention is complete. We support your programmes from the definition of business needs to ensure that the resulting solution meets those needs and is delivered on time and to budget.
Our services range from supporting improvements at the policy level to assisting governments and their suppliers to respond effectively to safety and environmental issues associated with specific projects.
We help you evaluate possible solutions to meet your business needs and aspirations. Our independence, innovative thinking, and commitment to research mean that we can provide expert advice, guidance, and support throughout the business solution cycle – from definition to design and delivery.
We help clarify your needs and identify and examine the most appropriate solutions available. We help define the elements of the solution to satisfy your complex environment. Having informed the decision-making process, we also support the business solution’s design and identify the risks of action.
Whether ensuring the right people and expertise are in place or enabling complex technical services, we provide specialist resources to deliver your objectives in an agile manner.
We create value through multifaceted programmes, that deliver complex transformational outcomes whilst reducing cost and schedule overrun, and maximise in-service asset availability.
Helping you deliver complex change. We work with you to change processes, technology, and the flow of information across your organisation to respond to changes in the market or your business environment.
We provide comprehensive cost modelling and analysis services to help you in your next major procurement decision.
We provide independent, tailored advice to help you reduce the risk of cyber-attacks.
We provide a complete lifecycle approach for our app and data services development service, from discovery to design, build and run.
A successful digital transformation leaves your organisation with the ability to evolve to meet the demands of constant change.
We apply our P3M, P3O, and P3C expertise to help you select and manage the entire process of delivering transformational change.
We use modern techniques, technologies and approaches to test and evaluate concepts, providing training and new services for asset management.
Integrating cutting edge organisational and behavioural insights to enhance performance, our innovative training consultancy supports the development of pro-active, professional, and highly skilled personnel within a regulated environment.
We define, architect, build and support leading-edge digital, data, and technology solutions and shape, deliver, optimise, and assure complex change programmes.
We have extensive experience delivering technology-enabled change, building capability, and solving difficult problems in mission-critical environments, including police services and national crime agencies.
Working throughout portfolios of change, we help you overcome complex design, engineering, and programme challenges and transform to deliver practical outcomes that keep our citizens safe and our country secure.
We are leading climate risk and resilience experts; able to communicate the science and assist you with recognising and effectively managing risk exposure, and by leveraging our brilliant people, we partner with you to implement strategy, in line with regulatory and economic considerations. We offer the complete package.
We can help you successfully meet the requirements of environmental permits and, in doing so, the needs of regulators.
Flood studies are an essential first step towards understanding and managing flood risk. They illustrate flood behaviour and risk, quantify the impact of changes to hydrologic regimes and riverine channels/floodplains, and inform planning and environmental studies.
Industry leading hydraulic modelling software for flood, urban drainage, estuarine and coastal assessments.
We have worked on some of the most complex portfolios globally - planning and scheduling operations, providing costings and, where applicable, independent reviews. Our flexible and agile approach and the specialist skills we can apply at all stages of the programme lifecycle have made us a trusted adviser to organisations.
We offer an extensive range of tailored management tools and techniques to help make better decisions about your marine, energy and defence assets.
Our range of vessel designs is broad, and we possess vast experience in designing high-speed patrol vessels for government and security organisations. With speeds up to and beyond 50 knots, our proven strategies for patrol vessels and interceptors range from 10 to 80m.
Our experience in using practical tools and methodologies to manage risk helps you verify and optimise design early on when costs are still manageable.
We offer a broad range of surveys, audits and certifications to promote safety and operational efficiency.
Many cities and urban settlements are getting denser as more people move from rural areas. Current projections indicate that 2-3 billion more people across the globe will be living in cities by 2050.
This paper outlines what we mean by complex projects, Systems Thinking, emergent properties and benefits management, and proposes the benefits of combining these to aid successful project delivery.
The third article in our Bias series, this piece focusses on hindsight bias. It can have severe implications for project management, impacting the assessment of decisions, hindering learning, and contributing to overconfidence in (and in turn the potential jeopardising of) project success.
In recent years, bias in the workplace, both subconscious and overt, has come under intense scrutiny. In this bias series, we will be looking at some of the lesser-known workplace subconscious biases: what they are; how they affect you and your colleagues, and what you can do to tackle them. In this first article, we examine the negatives and - perhaps surprisingly - the positives of a bias that affects everyone nearly every day: optimism bias.
Confirmation Bias: what is it? How does it affect you? Can you overcome it? Welcome to the second article in our bias series on some of the lesser known subconscious biases in the workplace.
As maritime autonomous systems continue to develop at pace, robust regulations and safety assurance measures are required to ensure safety at sea.
This paper, available as a download, looks at the intricacies of trust within the public sector and presents BMT’s four key enablers to building trust in the public sectors’ transformation initiatives.
Whether we like it or not, the world is facing a growing number of wicked problems – problems where there is no obvious route to resolution, and no agreement on the core challenges. With the incredible advances now seen in AI, to what extent can computer generated input support in ‘solving’ wicked problems?
More and more organisations are maturing their Asset Management approaches by applying ISO 55000 principles and recognised good practice to reach their long-term strategic outcomes or goals. In this context, BMT’s Stephen Hodson and Ewan Glen provide insight into four key strategic enablers to meeting the Greening Government Commitments for 2025 and the ambitious 2050 target for carbon neutrality (Net Zero).
BMT to drive transformation in UK Policing with cutting-edge technology and sustainable practices through the Police Industry Charter, enhancing public safety collaboration and improving public service outcomes.
A project to streamline the navigation certification process for Royal Navy warships has been extended.
British Army’s Futures Directorate has provided funding to build, supply and demonstrate the latest BMT SPARO® prototype for UK medics who took part in Project CONVERGENCE.
Dr Tim Curtis has been recognised as a Fellow of the Systems & Complexity in Organisation (SCIO) professional body. This distinguished professional qualification highlights the significant recognition of Tim's expertise and dedication to supporting organisations with complex social & environmental challenges over a 30-year career, emphasising his crucial contributions to practice of systems thinking and complexity science in global management and leadership.
Experienced leadership prioritizing the growth of our business through the development of capabilities and local delivery of global BMT expertise.
BMT attends MCA Awards 2023 with 2 Finalist projects.
With a strategic commitment to improved diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) in the workplace and an aim to integrate physical and mental wellbeing into all of our work activities and practices, supporting the Metropolitan Police Choir (MPC) for another year is the right fit for us.
BMT has been recognised by the Management Consultancies Association, with 2 project teams being shortlisted in the MCA Awards 2023. The shortlisted BMT projects include our work with ‘Defence Digital’ for Change and Transformation in the Public Sector, and with the charity ‘Addiction Recovery Agency’ (Ara) for Social Value.
