CLIENTS

A selection of our clients and case studies.

Promising Outcomes | Penetrating Diagnostics | Airbus
Promising Outcomes | Penetrating Diagnostics | Bio-Rad
Promising Outcomes | Penetrating Diagnostics | DIN
Promising Outcomes | Penetrating Diagnostics | Nutrition Group
Promising Outcomes | Penetrating Diagnostics | Rapier Group
Promising Outcomes | Siemens Energy
Promising Outcomes | Penetrating Diagnostics | Swisscontact
Promising Outcomes | WTW

The Clients We Work With

The truth-seekers

Intelligent leaders don’t mind hearing the truth, even if it can be uncomfortable. They know that the path to growth means facing up to challenges and overcoming them. This requires vision, curiosity, courage and tenacity.

Pursuers of insight

Most companies use generic satisfaction surveys and tools that provide data but lack diagnostics. Getting to the human heart of organisational behaviours requires a different approach – that of gathering and exploring expectations. Understanding expectations reveals killer intelligence and actionable insight to drive action.

Leaders who need results

Speed is critical in business today; the fast dominate the slow. Failure to act means going backwards. Copying the herd mean stasis. The key is doing the right things. is itself an action. Our clients are suffering commercial pain and they need it fixed now.

Featured Case Studies

Penetrating Diagnostics | Bio-Rad

Client: Bio-Rad
Sector: Pharmaceutical

Dramatic 3 year improvement in revenue and EBIT

Penetrating Diagnostics | Nutrition Group

Client: Nutrition Group
Sector: Manufacturing

Expectations based insight unlocks fast growth

Penetrating Diagnostics | Swisscontact

Client: Swisscontact
Sector: NGO

Unlocking significant donor revenue growth

Explore Our Case Studies

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AEROSPACE

AUTOMOTIVE

ENERGY

ENGINEERING

FINANCIAL SERVICES

INSURANCE

MANUFACTURING

NGO

PHARMACEUTICAL

Advertising Case Study

Advertising Case Study

Rapier Group's business included major corporate events management. The MD, Helen Seaman, sought our help to acquire critical staff insight to inform their strategy development.
Consumer Finance Business Case Study

Consumer Finance Business Case Study

In August 2011, an online motor finance business was growing at 30% pa, had 28 staff and was No. 2 in the £8b UK online car loans market. However, the CEO perceived several problems.
Energy Case Study

Energy Case Study

Siemens Powergen sought help to improve their D-I-Y customer survey process, develop customer loyalty and implement continuous improvement.
NGO Case Study

NGO Case Study

Swisscontact, a project management organisation, delivers Third World development projects on behalf of government aid agencies and commercial donors.
Pharmaceutical Case Study

Pharmaceutical Case Study

A large Asian business, the second largest operation of a global pharmaceutical company, found that profitability had dropped sharply in previous years.
Private Banking Case Study

Private Banking Case Study

A prestigious private bank knew that the skills of its relationship managers needed to be upgraded. Faced with increasing competition from US and European private banks, the bank’s goal was to increase retention of clients.
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Explore Our Case Studies

Advertising Case Study

Advertising Case Study

Rapier Group's business included major corporate events management. The MD, Helen Seaman, sought our help to acquire critical staff insight to inform their strategy development.
Consumer Finance Business Case Study

Consumer Finance Business Case Study

In August 2011, an online motor finance business was growing at 30% pa, had 28 staff and was No. 2 in the £8b UK online car loans market. However, the CEO perceived several problems.
Energy Case Study

Energy Case Study

Siemens Powergen sought help to improve their D-I-Y customer survey process, develop customer loyalty and implement continuous improvement.
NGO Case Study

NGO Case Study

Swisscontact, a project management organisation, delivers Third World development projects on behalf of government aid agencies and commercial donors.
Pharmaceutical Case Study

Pharmaceutical Case Study

A large Asian business, the second largest operation of a global pharmaceutical company, found that profitability had dropped sharply in previous years.
Private Banking Case Study

Private Banking Case Study

A prestigious private bank knew that the skills of its relationship managers needed to be upgraded. Faced with increasing competition from US and European private banks, the bank’s goal was to increase retention of clients.
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Testimonials

The PO research provided the hard data, insight and incentive for us to implement a fundamental overhaul of our sales and customer service operations. Since the project was completed, sales have grown from £13m to £24m. We feel that we are in a great position to take advantage of the continuing rising demand for our products, and we’re helped in that by the strong relationships we have built up with our clients over the years.


Richard Greathead

Chief Executive Officer, Nutrition Group PLC

Manufacturing Sector


We would not have worked through the challenges we faced without your help. Our team were determined that we were not going to let this situation beat us and it really helped. We cannot put a value on it.


Helen de Bois

Group Managing Director, Rapiergroup

Advertising Sector

 

We wanted to develop a process with which to evaluate our supplier’s performance and knew that it should be based around assessing their work relative to our expectations. However, we struggled to define those expectations in clear terms. Promising Outcomes stepped in and provided us with a quick, efficient way to achieve this; allowing us to refine our initial ideas and clarify what ideal supplier performance meant to us. This led to a much greater understanding between us and higher levels of productivity all around. We’re extremely happy with the results.


Director

Aerospace Sector

As an international sales team, our need for a clear path to growth was paramount. After working with Rowan and the team, we benefited from the following:

  • Understood the characteristics of our market segments and what they REALLY expected from us
  • Understood how we compared against our competition in the areas that mattered most to our customers
  • Implemented precise, targeted actions based on this customer – driven data, rather than internal data and intuition

The result? Sales, customer experience and NPS scores all showed significant improvements for 3 years in a row.

Country General Manager, Japan

Bio-Rad

Pharmaceutical Sector

 

Following an acquisition within our company, we used the scorecard to demonstrate to their staff that their company will be in safe hands. It is a great tool to give the vendors the confidence that the emotional capital they have in their business will be carefully nurtured and the staff will understand what they have to achieve; it has been really useful. We have also had an offer for our company and I am using the scorecard for the operational Due Diligence. If it works out as planned we could be moderately well off in a couple of months. Our business has benefited by more than £1m in acquisition negotiations and the decision not to buy a competitor in administration was directly linked to the clarity of thinking we get from the scorecard. As you can gather I am now a Dynamic Scorecard zealot, without doubt the best advice we have ever had; it is certainly the most valuable. Please tell everyone not to try to do this by themselves!

Miles Carroll

CEO, UPG

Engineering Sector

 

The input from the work PO has carried out for us has given us genuine insight into our customer expectations, both in terms of how we are performing against them and also from their view of our competitors. We had some anecdotal views of this but the analytical and scientific approach to measuring expectations has given us a clear path for improvements and rest assured we will then want to measure the improvement we make from the customers perspective again.

Alex Duncan

Chief Executive Officer, Openmind Networks

Technology Sector

 

Promising Outcomes brought us huge value based on their expertise gained from working across different industries and with all types of people and personalities. The most important value for me as a client was the trust I was able to build with them. It felt like Cathy and Rowan were part of my team and our business. They always supported me with my personal development and coaching and offered a lot of excellent advice. That was so helpful and enabled me to be my best self in my role.

Sonja Haas

Global Head of Human Resources

Internet Media Sector Sector

 

Testimonials

The PO research provided the hard data, insight and incentive for us to implement a fundamental overhaul of our sales and customer service operations. Since the project was completed, sales have grown from £13m to £24m. We feel that we are in a great position to take advantage of the continuing rising demand for our products, and we’re helped in that by the strong relationships we have built up with our clients over the years.


Richard Greathead

Chief Executive Officer, Nutrition Group PLC

Manufacturing Sector

We would not have worked through the challenges we faced without your help. Our team were determined that we were not going to let this situation beat us and it really helped. We cannot put a value on it.


Helen de Bois

Group Managing Director, Rapiergroup

Advertising Sector

We wanted to develop a process with which to evaluate our supplier’s performance and knew that it should be based around assessing their work relative to our expectations. However, we struggled to define those expectations in clear terms. Promising Outcomes stepped in and provided us with a quick, efficient way to achieve this; allowing us to refine our initial ideas and clarify what ideal supplier performance meant to us. This led to a much greater understanding between us and higher levels of productivity all around. We’re extremely happy with the results.


Director

Aerospace Sector

As an international sales team, our need for a clear path to growth was paramount. After working with Rowan and the team, we benefited from the following:

  • Understood the characteristics of our market segments and what they REALLY expected from us
  • Understood how we compared against our competition in the areas that mattered most to our customers
  • Implemented precise, targeted actions based on this customer – driven data, rather than internal data and intuition

The result? Sales, customer experience and NPS scores all showed significant improvements for 3 years in a row.

Country General Manager, Japan

Bio-Rad

Pharmaceutical Sector

Following an acquisition within our company, we used the scorecard to demonstrate to their staff that their company will be in safe hands. It is a great tool to give the vendors the confidence that the emotional capital they have in their business will be carefully nurtured and the staff will understand what they have to achieve; it has been really useful. We have also had an offer for our company and I am using the scorecard for the operational Due Diligence. If it works out as planned we could be moderately well off in a couple of months. Our business has benefited by more than £1m in acquisition negotiations and the decision not to buy a competitor in administration was directly linked to the clarity of thinking we get from the scorecard. As you can gather I am now a Dynamic Scorecard zealot, without doubt the best advice we have ever had; it is certainly the most valuable. Please tell everyone not to try to do this by themselves!

Miles Carroll

CEO, UPG

Engineering Sector

The input from the work PO has carried out for us has given us genuine insight into our customer expectations, both in terms of how we are performing against them and also from their view of our competitors. We had some anecdotal views of this but the analytical and scientific approach to measuring expectations has given us a clear path for improvements and rest assured we will then want to measure the improvement we make from the customers perspective again.

Alex Duncan

Chief Executive Officer, Openmind Networks

Technology Sector

Promising Outcomes brought us huge value based on their expertise gained from working across different industries and with all types of people and personalities. The most important value for me as a client was the trust I was able to build with them. It felt like Cathy and Rowan were part of my team and our business. They always supported me with my personal development and coaching and offered a lot of excellent advice. That was so helpful and enabled me to be my best self in my role.

Sonja Haas

Global Head of Human Resources

Internet Media Sector Sector 

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