Today’s competitive environment is demanding of executives. The need to re-invent, adapt and compete at a ferocious rate is leading many businesses to consider large-scale or whole-business transformations with a frequency and pace that is nothing short of daunting.
To offset the risks involved and increase the likelihood of success, business leaders need to engage partners they can trust to support such complex transformations. Transformation Programme Leadership offers a specialist capability in managing the complexity, risk and scope of projects necessary to ensure that some of the world’s largest organisations achieve their goals and maintain their competitive advantage.
Transformation Programme Leadership is at the heart of Capgemini’s ability to deliver high-stake programmes. Our consultants are experienced at designing and delivering streams of work to create cohesive and integrated programmes that deliver the results needed.
Core skills in Transformation Programme Leadership include:
- Programme Design
- Team Set Up and Management
- Risk Management
- Budget Management
- Benefits Realisation
- PMO Set-up and Operation
- Conflict Resolution
- Stakeholder Management, particularly at a director and senior management level
- Change Management and Communications
A Transformation Programme Leader
Leading large-scale and complex Transformation Programmes requires an extensive skill-set – combining rigour and flexibility, experience and candour, determination and adaptability, focus and perspective, discipline and creativity - in short, breadth and depth.
Combining the agility to understand detail whilst maintaining a focus on the broader perspective, a Transformation Programme Leader ensures that the link between the strategic purposes for the programme and the implemented solution is never broken. Our Programme Leaders are responsible for ensuring that projects arrive at the right destination.
Trusted Capability
Our commitment to Transformation Programme Leadership as a distinct capability contributes to Capgemini’s world-class credentials in transformation. Examples include:
- Running the UK’s largest ever business transformation project at Her Majesty’s Revenues and Customs
- Providing interim leadership for a global oil major’s transformation project across five continents.
- Delivering ahead of time and budget a £100m local government transformation
- Launching a major direct financial services business
- Revitalising a major retailer’s branch network.

