BDC gives infrastructure organisations a clear standard for what delivery actually takes, and a deployable tool to build to it. Form or assess any portfolio, programme or project. Mobilise a contractor on a won contract. Grow your people as capable individuals. Against a standard, tailored to your sector, run and owned by you.
In every organisation the same pattern plays out. Good intentions on growing delivery capability. A maturity assessment commissioned. The same verdict on organisational immaturity. And very little tangibly changing for the people on the ground planning and executing the work. Twenty years of maturity assessments, and we are still lingering below a one percent hit rate.
It isn't the people. Capable professionals routinely hold poorly formed programmes together through heroics, and heroics are not a strategy. Programmes fail at the basics: unclear accountability, untrusted schedules, risk recorded but not managed, change arriving uncontrolled. The building blocks that would have prevented it are known and ordinary. They were simply never laid, because there was no standard, no criteria and no consistent way to build them.
BDC exists to change that. A defined standard for what a formed portfolio, programme and project needs. The means to set up correctly, honestly assess what is already running, and fix what is found. And a tool your own team deploys and runs, so capability becomes something you can see, direct and build deliberately, and it stays in-house rather than walking out with a consultant.
See, on evidence, whether your portfolios, programmes and projects are set up to succeed. A weighted score, a heatmap by theme, and exactly what to fix first.
Won a commission or contract? Mobilise the operating model to the standard, in the right order, and prove readiness to the client. Faster to payable outputs.
Portfolios, programmes and projects are delivered by people. Measure them against the demand of their role, across three tiers, from more than one angle, over time.
A single, evidence-based picture of your delivery capability, measured against a clear standard for what good looks like. Not an opinion. Not a maturity badge from a consultant who leaves with the knowledge. A standard, tailored to your sector, that your own team runs and re-runs whenever you choose.
Form a new portfolio, programme or project the right way from the start, or assess one already running, at any level. See the weakest themes, what inaction risks, and a remediation plan sequenced by dependency, so effort goes where it will actually build capability. Mobilise a contractor on a won commission with a baselined plan that flags its risks. Measure your people against the demand of their role, by self, manager and independent rounds. And track it all over time, from baseline to now, for the board, the regulator and the client.
To the standard, in dependency order.
Scored, weighted, rolled up to one position.
Owned actions, closed to evidence.
Capability rising, tracked over time.
The model is transfer, not retention. Your people learn what good looks like and run the standard themselves, with external involvement reducing to independent calibration. Success looks like you not needing us.
The standard and the tool deployed into your organisation. Your teams form, assess and remediate on demand, and keep the capability. Lite and Full editions.
A fixed-price assessment of what is actually in place, a sequenced remediation plan, and a re-assessment to evidence the uplift. Weeks, not months.
Stand up a new portfolio, programme, project or delivery vehicle against the standard from day one, or steady one that is drifting and get it back under control.
Your transformation strategy reviewed against the standard. Does it lay the building blocks, or wrap dates around activity? Fixed fee, from your existing documents.
Programme and project management training built on the standard, and people capability assessment for your delivery teams. Mentoring, coaching and workshops.
Someone who has actually lived and done this before. Mobilising a new programme, recovering one that is drifting, or a few days a month of senior delivery support.
Twenty years leading and enabling infrastructure delivery across rail, high-speed rail, highways, water, wastewater and electricity transmission. Client-side, delivery-focused, rooted in practical application. Formed a clean water mains renewals programme team from a standing start. Rebuilt a wastewater programme team to deliver its regulatory obligations. Established the working arrangements across the interface between HS2 and the live motorway network.
Having seen project and programme professionals perform heroics, and watched them be institutionally and organisationally failed by an inability to build capable organisations that let them succeed, Olaf founded BDC to change that reality.
A structured, evidence-based view of where your delivery capability stands, and what to address first.
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