Strategy: Problem definition; Value proposition; Product strategy

Combining our strengths and experience in Product Strategy and Transport Technology, we can support you and your teams in:

  • Defining your product - what are you offering your customers and passengers?

  • Understanding the problems you want technology to solve in the context of: your business goals; your stakeholders; your customers; your staff and users

  • Rounding out your value proposition

  • Articulating benefits

  • Creating a business case

  • Critical feedback and Review of drafted strategy and policy documents.

Technical landscape: market; market capabilities; current capabilities; architecture

With our broad experience in the transportation technology space and Specialist market and technical knowledge, WalnutWorks can:

  • Introduce you to the right terminology for what you’re looking for

  • Conduct a market review: Provide long and short lists of companies who provide the kinds of services you need, and help you ask the right questions

Bids and Tenders

WalnutWorks has a strong history of producing compelling and winning bid responses, and of constructing useful RFIs and ITTs. We can support through:

  • Defining requirements

  • Reviewing RFIs and RFPs and requirements before they are launched.

  • Advising on bid strategy

  • Creating bid responses

  • Supporting supplier interviews

  • Reviewing tender submissions, both pre-submission supplier-side, and on behalf of tendering authorities

  • End-to-end proposition Architecture, including modeling how the different scenarios from new and existing vendors could work together, and the eventual to-be architecture

Planning

WalnutWorks can work with you to create deliverable propositions that allow you to show results and deliver value incrementally

Technical transition strategies

As-is, MVP, and to-be architectures that unlock functionality and value during the project

System and product lifecycle management

Oversight and Assurance

Assurance - supporting your project team to ensure your suppliers are delivering what they said they would, and unblocking conflicts in integration. WalnutWorks can help separate genuine challenge from manufactured, and can advise on ways forward.

Technical teams

WalnutWorks can also evaluate your current technology and teams and recommend the following to get them to be more than the sum of their parts:

  • What is working and what isn’t, and how

  • Gaps and gluts in your team’s skillsets

  • Culture issues

  • Efficiencies (and where consolidation may not be an efficiency)

  • Process improvements and ways of working

  • Team purpose and role definitions

  • Target Operating Models for teams and processes based around your current team capabilities and actual requirements

  • Coaching for managers

  • Lifecycle management.