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Complexity is a good thing! It provides the interconnectedness and diversity which are essential to innovation, agility and success in a fast-changing and dynamic world.
At Claremont, embracing complexity underpins everything we do. Established in 1994 by Dr Jean Boulton, Claremont Management Consultants has gained a reputation for tackling the impossible and doing it well. Clients tell us we are innovative, integrative, inspiring, authentic and challenging.
Our work spans the areas of strategy, people development and change; we combine these themes as needed to get to the heart of the problem and make a difference. We tend to get involved with projects when they are still a twinkle in the client's eye. We can then help to create an approach which really fits the issue and the context.
No project is too big or too small! Projects range from large-scale change programmes through to one-off strategy or coaching sessions.
Our client base is as diverse as we are and includes banks, charities, construction, telecommunications and publishing. Speaking of complexity, we're even prepared to dally with the health sector!
Jean Boulton and Professor Peter Allen have written a book chapter on strategy and complexity in 'Advanced Strategic Management: A Multi-perspective Approach' edited by Véronique Ambrosini, Mark Jenkins & Nardine Collier (Palgrave Macmillan) (ISBN-10: 1403985928 & ISBN-13: 978-1403985927). To download the introduction, click here.
Jean and Peter are currently writing ‘Embracing Complexity’, a book designed to make complexity understandable and relevant to businesses, policy-makers and those concerned about how to engage with the big questions of today’s world. For more information click on the complexity section.
Jean regularly lectures on strategy, organisation development and how to save the world in the context of complexity, crisis, fast and radical change.
Slides from one of the sessions given to students on the MSc in Responsible Business Practice at the University of Bath in 2007 can be downloaded click here.
We are currently involved in a research project looking at how to evaluate mulit-faceted, systemic change projects where the intended outcomes and the way to achieve them emerges over time as opportunities are seized and learning occurs. The project we are researching focuses on how a hospice can link more effectively with hard-to-reach communities in East London. Contact Jean for more information.
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