Build the internal structures, roles and behaviours needed to deliver at scale.

We help organisations assess, design, and build internal capability to deliver complex capital programmes at scale. This includes operating model design, governance frameworks, and team structures aligned to your strategic goals.

Outcomes:

• Fit-for-purpose delivery models

• Aligned roles, processes, and behaviours

• Scalable, high-performing teams

Establish or refine delivery models to improve efficiency, collaboration and innovation.

Drawing on hands-on experience establishing programmatic approaches, we help set up or refine capital delivery vehicles that improve efficiency, collaboration, and resilience across large-scale portfolios.

Key Areas:

• Early Contractor Involvement models

• Design of efficient governance frameworks

• Cross-departmental alignment

• Performance measurement and reporting

Develop robust business cases and investment strategies that align with regulatory and organisational goals.

We guide clients through early-stage investment planning and business case development for major capital projects—ensuring alignment with strategic objectives, regulatory frameworks, and value for money principles.

Services include:

• Strategic fit and options appraisal

• Business case preparation and submission support

• Stakeholder engagement and regulatory alignment

Set projects up for success with clear scopes, realistic timelines and strong risk planning.

Claire Lyons Consulting’s significant experience of capital delivery shows that the biggest project delays happen before construction even begins.

We help clients:

• Build a realistic, robust business case

• Accurately identify and plan for risks

• Design scope and contracting strategy with outcomes in mind

• Set you up for success by ensuring your budget is robust and realistic

Enhance performance by streamlining decision making, clarifying objectives and aligning teams.

We help teams accelerate delivery by working smarter and more decisively. Our approach focuses on aligning teams around a common project objective and helping them break through the noise of bureaucracy, misaligned processes, and siloed communications.

We help with:

• Cutting through complexity to clarify and simplify objectives

• Resetting project team dynamics and interfaces

• Enabling faster decision-making and execution

• Making reporting simpler and more focused, enabling the team to concentrate on delivering projects

We can step in when things go off track, to resolve issues, rebuild trust and realign delivery to critical milestones.

When projects stall or contractual relationships become tense, we can independently facilitate to assess root causes, reframe problems, and bring stakeholders together to get things back on track.

Results:

• Resolved issues and de-escalation

• Restored trust across stakeholders

• Realigned delivery to meet critical milestones

We also offer a range of tailored services to support your specific project needs, including:

• Procurement strategy development – ensuring your approach aligns with project goals, delivery models and market conditions

• Tender and bid strategy & management – shaping successful submissions and managing the process from planning to award

• Technical peer review – providing independent insight to strengthen your design, strategy or delivery approach