Our Partners

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Our Partners

We build relationships with smaller companies with specialist expertise, which when combined with what 4OC brings, offers even greater impact for our clients.

Morphologic

Revolutionising Operational Intelligence with a Fast and Flexible No-Code Platform

Morphologic was the first of our partners. It was founded by our very own Emma Adair (how clever is she?!), and we think they offer something really special.

So, what is Morphologic?

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Morphologic are on a mission to help organisations democratise their operational intelligence. Their cloud-based, software as a service platform has an intelligent no-code design that is an accessible alternative to complex business intelligence software. With Morphologic you can rapidly build powerful solutions to better understand the things that matter most to you – your customers, your people, and your operations.

 

The intuitive Morphologic interface gives you full control over the design of your software. Meaning no more waiting for under-resourced IT departments or overpriced software developers. And it’s optimised for maximum speed, so there’s no more waiting for sluggish systems to collate your information. Just real insight, right away.

Empower your team: Give your people the tools they need to quickly develop relevant intelligence solutions.

Collect and analyse: Gather information in real-time to drive high quality, confident decision-making.

Set targets: Monitor progress for individuals and the organisation as a whole.

Share intelligence: Ensure that you are sharing organisational intelligence effectively and that it is used responsibly.

The Partnership

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With 4OC bringing the operational expertise, ensuring that your organisation is ready to adopt digital change that will stick, and Morphologic providing an accessible and agile digital solution, it’s a partnership that just makes sense.

Want to validate existing knowledge or reshape your organisation’s approaches based on insight-led data? We have the answer. Well, Emma does.

Conjure

Innovate-Collaborate-Elevate: 4OC and Conjure’s Partnership

As respective leaders in change management and digital transformation, we have come together to deliver ‘Radical Collaboration’ that transforms the way our clients within public service delivery organisations work and empowers the seamless advancement of transformative changes they’re already engaged in.

So, what is Conjure?

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Conjure is a digital product agency that specialises in design-thinking and a collaborative approach to realising your digital products. Be it a mobile app or the dashboard for a supercar, Conjure has got you covered. Their strategic approach, fuelled by creativity and a unique adaptability to new cutting-edge technologies, helps businesses navigate the ever-changing digital landscape and connect with their audiences in meaningful ways.

With an understanding of each brand’s distinct story and values, Conjure develops tailored digital products that captivate audiences, foster engagement, and drive tangible results. Their team of skilled designers, developers, user experience and product specialists collaborate seamlessly to craft visually stunning and highly functional digital products and services with exceptional user experiences end to end, from discovery to delivery.

Conjure is at the forefront of digital innovation, equipping its clients with the latest tools and strategies to stay ahead. With a strong portfolio and a track record of delivering exceptional results, Conjure empowers brands to thrive in the dynamic digital landscape.

The Partnership

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Together, Conjure and 4OC forge a powerful alliance that enables us to combine our strengths, resources, and knowledge to unlock the true potential of our client’s businesses. By integrating Conjure’s digital capabilities and product knowledge with 4OC’s change management skills, we deliver expertise that drives growth and propels organisations toward success in the ever-evolving digital landscape. Our collaborative approach ensures that each solution we deliver is tailored to our client’s specific goals and challenges.

At 4OC, we are excited about the endless possibilities this partnership unlocks. We look forward to working closely with Conjure to push boundaries and create remarkable digital experiences that empower our clients to thrive in an ever-changing world.

UCL

Using System Dynamics research to overhaul public service decision making

So, what is UCL (and more importantly, System Dynamics)?

University College London’s (UCL) Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering designs and delivers research on the interactions between the built environment and health, human wellbeing, productivity, energy use and climate change.

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Together, 4OC and UCL recognise there is a major challenge in developing a collaborative understanding of the conflicts and tensions of different neighbourhood issues and prioritisation of problems/solutions.

UCL is working with 4OC to co-develop a stronger understanding of the complex systems that lead to significant delivery problems with publicly funded community services.

 

The goal of this work is to improve the delivery of system strategic priorities (such as population health, social value, second chances and fair criminal services, etc.) within the available resources, whilst engaging local residents, who form a necessary part of the solution.

The Partnership

Ucl1Using a systems thinking tool called Causal Loop Diagrams, 4OC and UCL are highlighting the interconnections of factors within the test case of West Northamptonshire Council in an exploratory project examining the use of System Dynamics.

The project aims to understand the complexity and leverage points for service delivery, increase systems thinking-based decision making in practice, and support the mitigation of risk relating to inequalities.

By bringing together 4OC on-the-ground realities with cutting-edge academic research and theory, we are trailblazing what it truly means to deliver public social and economic value.

We Are Digital

Driving digital inclusivity within digital transformation

We Are Digital is a partner that revolutionises our digital transformation products and services by providing breakthrough support on digital inclusion.

So, who are We Are Digital?

We Are Digital is a social impact company that aims for everyone to easily access digital services, advice and support needed to confidently live their lives to the fullest. They have developed an innovative platform that helps to run welfare services end-to-end, increasing efficiency for client organisations, delivery companies and impact for end users.

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One of their five core services is digital inclusion support. We Are Digital recognises that in today’s online world, for millions of people, lack of opportunity means hardship and lost opportunity.

Like 4OC, We Are Digital values everyone treating everyone as equals, which is why they have developed and honed training to catalyse digital inclusion across housing associations, local authorities, central government and more! Engagement is at the centre of their model, which aligns with our own, to drive impact that leads to outcomes.

The Partnership

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4OC, as the lead change management partner, helps organisations embed change. We Are Digital makes sure that the change reaches every nook and cranny. By providing online and offline support and training, We Are Digital ensures that service users who struggle with using digital services are not pushed out from those services in organisations’ quest to adopt and transform digitally.

As our partner, We Are Digital also ensures that 4OC utilises the best, most inclusive tools to successfully deliver project and programme management that supports organisations through digital transformation.

HiCo

‘Passionate about public service’

This is why we are excited to announce our partnership with HiCo. Sharing similar values is important to us at 4OC, so we are over the moon to find another organisation that is just as enthusiastic about working with the public service as we are.

So, what is HiCo?

HiCo is a Wales-based company that specialises in providing practical help, advice and support primarily to the public sector and not-for-profit organisations including Government, the NHS, Local Authorities, Housing Associations, Care & Support Providers and Charities.

They have a strong background in social care and health services delivery strategy and leadership as well as an in-depth knowledge of the legislative and policy framework in Wales and Welsh social care delivery. Providing their services in both Welsh and English, they are strength-based, building on what is working well in order to approach challenges and opportunities more ethically and efficaciously.

HiCo has a really positive track record of helping Welsh local authorities with social care challenges ranching from reviews of day opportunities for adults with learning disability to developing long-term strategies that respond to the future projected health and social care future needs of older populations.

All of HiCo’s associates have professional backgrounds in the fields they support clients with and therefore their support is grounded and better tailored as a result of that operational context. Whilst based and focused in Wales, HiCo also provides services in other countries.

The Partnership

Our partnership with HiCo offers a unique blend of skills, experience, subject matter expertise, local knowledge, and connections. HiCo and 4OC have a shared ethical purpose, enabling us as a partnership to make a real difference in the public sector. Together, we can support you to undertake large-scale projects to review high-quality data and evidence to develop workforces and improve care.


‘Yn angerddol am wasanaeth cyhoeddus’

Dyna pam rydym yn gyffrous i gyhoeddi ein partneriaeth gyda HiCo. Mae rhannu gwerthoedd tebyg yn bwysig i ni yn 4OC, felly rydym ar ben ein digon i ddod o hyd i sefydliad arall sydd yr un mor frwd dros weithio gyda’r gwasanaeth cyhoeddus ag yr ydym ni.

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Mae HiCo yn gwmni yng Nghymru sy’n arbenigo mewn darparu cymorth ymarferol, cyngor a chefnogaeth yn bennaf i’r sector cyhoeddus a sefydliadau dielw gan gynnwys y Llywodraeth, y GIG, Awdurdodau Lleol, Cymdeithasau Tai, Darparwyr Gofal a Chymorth ac Elusennau.

Mae ganddynt gefndir cryf mewn strategaeth ac arweinyddiaeth darparu gwasanaethau gofal cymdeithasol ac iechyd yn ogystal â gwybodaeth fanwl am y fframwaith deddfwriaethol a pholisi yng Nghymru a darpariaeth gofal cymdeithasol yng Nghymru. Gan ddarparu eu gwasanaethau yn y Gymraeg a’r Saesneg, maent yn seiliedig ar gryfder, gan adeiladu ar yr hyn sy’n gweithio’n dda er mwyn mynd i’r afael â heriau a chyfleoedd yn fwy moesegol ac effeithiol. 

Mae gan HiCo hanes cadarnhaol iawn o helpu awdurdodau lleol Cymru gyda heriau gofal cymdeithasol yn amrywio o adolygiadau o gyfleoedd dydd i oedolion ag anabledd dysgu i ddatblygu strategaethau hirdymor sy’n ymateb i anghenion iechyd a gofal cymdeithasol rhagamcanol poblogaethau hŷn yn y dyfodol. Mae gan holl gymdeithion HiCo gefndiroedd proffesiynol yn y meysydd y maent yn cefnogi cleientiaid gyda nhw ac felly mae eu cefnogaeth wedi’i seilio ar ac wedi’i theilwra’n well o ganlyniad i’r cyd-destun gweithredol hwnnw. Er ei fod wedi’i leoli yng Nghymru ac yn canolbwyntio ar Gymru, mae HiCo hefyd yn darparu gwasanaethau mewn gwledydd eraill.

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Mae ein partneriaeth gyda HiCo yn cynnig cyfuniad unigryw o sgiliau, profiad, arbenigedd pwnc, gwybodaeth leol, a chysylltiadau. Mae gan HiCo a 4OC ddiben moesol cyffredin, sy’n ein galluogi ni fel partneriaeth i wneud gwahaniaeth gwirioneddol yn y sector cyhoeddus. Gyda’n gilydd, gallwn eich cefnogi i gynnal prosiectau ar raddfa fawr i adolygu data a thystiolaeth o ansawdd uchel i ddatblygu gweithluoedd a gwella gofal.

CoStratify

Supporting you in designing and actioning IT strategies

4OC is proud to launch its latest partnership with the leader in bringing that technical edge to IT transformation services. Welcome to the floor, CoStratify.

So, who is CoStratify?

Costratify blog 197CoStratify has a strong technical and service delivery background, co-owned and founded by a technical leadership team having more than 15 years’ experience in delivering and advising on IT change.

Like 4OC, CoStratify wants to ensure that clients get the most value possible from their technology. They utilise an Enterprise Architecture approach that prioritises consistency, transparency, and continuity so that digital services align with the business in the most cost-effective and efficient way.

CoStratify brings a fully independent viewpoint to projects ensuring that, in parallel, transformation is underpinned by strong evidence of change.

CoStratify works across multiple public service delivery sectors, such as local government, housing and health, which makes them a perfect fit for us.

The Partnership

Platform 3 1024x536 24OC recognises the power of digital transformation in the public sector and beyond. Our partnership with CoStratify enables us to offer a wider range of technical subject matter experts and digital tools to our clients to lead end-to-end digital transformations.

Together, we support you to conceptualise your needs and requirements, source the best technology for you, and integrate it within your existing systems and staff ways of working, so you can continue to maximise the benefits of digital change.

Urban Scale Interventions

Driving change for communities, with communities

We know people are at the centre of change. That’s why we’ve partnered up with USI—to make sure 4OC utilises the most revolutionary methods for engaging massive groups of people for equally massive change projects.

So, what is USI?

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Urban Scale Interventions (USI) helps cities, governments and organisations, such as the Public Health Agency and Belfast City Council, to improve the lives of the people they serve through creative engagement, impactful design and quality delivery.

USI believes the best innovation happens at the intersection between people, place and purpose. They always work in collaboration with communities when designing and delivering projects, ensuring action has a positive social impact and creates better spaces for people.

Like 4OC, USI delivers projects with public value, and that value is woven into everything that they do. USI are experts at talking to people to reframe challenges around their needs and deliver solutions that are more creative, relevant and aligned to key policy outcomes.

USI strikes the perfect balance between inquisitive minds to push new ways of thinking and experienced hands to deliver tangible interventions, which is an approach we can get behind.

The Partnership

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By partnering with USI, 4OC collaborates with thought leaders in stakeholder engagement and management within transformation of place, allowing us to continue to do what we do best (engaging the people) when scaling projects across cities or other expansive, complex networks.

Together, we communicate complexity through visions and stories in order to change policy, deliver physical interventions, and shape places, so innovation grows with the people it’s meant to serve.

AKOU

Making sure social impact efforts create real value

Knowing the importance our clients put on adding true value for their end users, 4OC has partnered uAkou saferspaces silhouette asset 800 e1680812468131p with AKOU to support individuals, teams, and organisations to build better social capital.

So, what is AKOU? 

AKOU is an impact consultancy and tech company supporting individuals, communities and organisations to prove the good they do. Social impact, while an increasingly important focus for businesses and communities, still eludes many as they struggle to make sense of it, let alone measure it.

AKOU is on a mission to make social impact measurement understandable, meaningful and manageable. Since 2017, they’ve developed a range of products and services to make connecting with one another easier, to help their clients such as Lambeth Council, the GLA and Black Thrive Global to make the most meaningful impact on the communities they serve.

For 4OC and AKOU alike, it’s simpleit all starts with connection. You can’t make social impact without building good relationships. We support social impact reporting, engagement, and consultation activities to reach seldom heard voices, creating co-design processes, improving your team culture and creating a relevant impact framework.

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Whether it’s mapping networks of exchange and support (your social capital), embedding connection and collaboration into your team culture, or just helping you to prove the good you do, 4OC and AKOU are here to help you design, deliver and measure the public value of your change initiatives.

APM

So, what is APM?

The Association for Project Management is the only chartered membership organisation for the project profession in the world. The opportunities they offer cover training and qualifications, networking, research and access to a whole library of resources.

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The Affiliation

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We’re always looking for ways to move towards improvement. That’s why we invest in both personal and professional development for our people.

When achieving project objectives, process, methodology, skills, knowledge, and experience are all key. They’re essential in the ever-evolving landscape that sits beyond the everyday cycle of business. In a complex and changing world we know how important being prepared to operate in that market is. That’s why we invest in our people with training.

APM offer an extensive range of resources, career development and networking opportunities, that’s why we’re proud to be an affiliated partner.

To find out more information about 4OC’s Affiliation with APM, please contact wilson.chiu@the4oc.com.

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