Our Solutions
Solutions that work
We’re on a mission to improve how interim and project resource is delivered. Our goal is to ensure our clients save time and money when achieving the outcomes their business needs. Our approach is elegantly straightforward: we combine the world's finest tech talent with a precisely defined and skilfully executed service, resulting in the timely and budget-conscious achievement of your goals.
As specialists in helping clients succeed, our impressive track record in truly understanding client challenges enables us to deliver tailor-made, cost-effective solutions that deliver the right outcomes without added complexity or overheads.
The following Service Models are available across any of our Solution offerings, built to deliver exactly what our clients need:
Advise
Our advisory services offer precise expertise on the most effective approach to achieve your desired goals and outcomes.
Augment
Our augmentation services goes one step further by blending in advisory expertise. We bring in expert 'horsepower' to ensure timely and budget-friendly delivery, all while reducing overheads.
Total Project Ownership
Our TPO service is fully-inclusive. We not only guide and augment, but also take full ownership for ensuring complete success, all while you retain full control.
Service Excellence
Ensuring performance, quality & costs through transparency!
Underpinning every engagement, regardless if it's an individual or a team, our Service Delivery Team is on-hand to ensure we deliver precisely what was agreed by monitoring and managing the outputs from our expert associates to significantly improve costs, time, and risk of success. Through pioneering technology we establish total transparency and accountability of what we’re doing, at every stage, all accessible via a dedicated Client Portal for added peace of mind & confidence in what our teams are delivering is on-time, on-budget and on-target.
Individual Expertise
This option is ideal when you require an individual contractor and seek both value for your investment and tangible results. Whether you need outcomes or an individual, rest assured, we have you fully covered!
KEY SERVICE BENEFITS & OUTCOMES:
- Guaranteed the best talent within their field
- Specific knowledge directly related to your industry and challenges
- Saves you time while we manage resource effectiveness so you don't have to
- Proactively solve any delivery issues to ensure smooth delivery
- Risk reduced through shared ownership
- Improved oversight of performance through regular project reports
- Ensure contractors are not unfairly rewarded for taking longer to deliver outcomes
- Track progress & reporting via dedicated Client Portal
Teams as a Service
A fully scalable team of experts will be designed and deployed based on the requirements for your project & business. The beauty of this solution is the expertise can scale and change as needed to ensure maximum cost control.
KEY SERVICE BENEFITS & OUTCOMES:
- Fully scalable teams mobilised in 72 hours (where possible we deploy teams with prior experience of working together)
- Our associates are in the top 2% of their field
- Significant overhead reduction in managing team output
- Project success is increased through improved collaboration & awareness
- Inclusive knowledge sharing and transfer to your internal resources
- True transparency on project progress: Everything documented, tracked & visible via our Client Portal
- Performance optimisation included as standard
- Service Delivery Manager included
Project-to-Perm
Project-to-Product (P-to-P) guarantees precise project delivery from the outset, mitigating the potential for extensive rework in the future. It's also perfect where clients need to deliver quickly but aspire to transition to in-house in the future.
This option also secures access to the most exceptional resources for your project at any point in time, ensuring unparalleled quality and efficiency.
KEY SERVICE BENEFITS & OUTCOMES:
- Most effective way for delivery of new projects
- Full end-to-end service reduces time and money in delivering projects and hiring long-term resource
- Utilise the very best skills to initially establish project momentum
- FTE sourcing run in parallel with greater impact and less chance of churn
- Possibility to save on FTE rates once ‘heavy lifting’ is done by hiring BAU specific resource
- Fully inclusive on-boarding & knowledge sharing for total continuity of delivery
- Everything is documented and tracked in a dedicated Client Portal which FTE has access to for total clarity
- Service Management oversight to steer project outputs toward ideal FTE hiring
the hybrid advantage
Why we're different
We're often asked how our solutions differ from 'pure' market players. As a Hybrid Consultancy, we take pride in excelling across the talent spectrum through inclusive service management. Our roots in recruitment grant us unmatched access to top-tier talent swiftly. We've adapted, adopting elements of 'traditional consultancies' by taking on delivery responsibilities and essential services without the hefty fees.
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IR35 Compliance
At Understanding Solutions, we recognise that the introduction of IR35 legislation has created challenges for HR and legal departments looking to hire flexible workforces. By ensuring IR35 liability through working as the ‘fee payer’ and ‘hirer’ to offer ‘fully contracted-out service’ in accordance with HMRC, we aim to take this stress away from you. We are well versed in issuing status determination statements and managing IR35 status disputes, making sure that ensuring working practices align with the pre-defined outcomes agreed in our statement of work.
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Not-For-Profit Recruitment Experts
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- Digital
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- AI & Machine Learning
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- Hardware
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Futerra Talent
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