Neil Furby

Broad, multi-national background in organisational development, people development, management services and professional consulting with the Hoskyns Group and Cap Gemini Sogeti.   Over 15 years experience of people and process development and change management in organisations large and small, in many different areas of the world including North and South America, Europe and Middle East .   Enthusiastic, energetic and creative, particularly interested the development of people and positive organisational cultures that encourage and sustain best practices.

Key Skills

Ÿ                     Working with clients to identify issues and problems in existing project and business environments,

Ÿ                     Initiating and guiding development of new/revised processes, methods and procedures,

Ÿ                     Enabling deployment of new processes through education, coaching and training,

Ÿ                     Facilitation and interim management of project teams and groups,

Ÿ                     Experienced in developing and managing professional consultants,

Ÿ                     Productive and creative training and development designer/developer, web designer.

Ÿ                     Author of Project Architect project management knowledgeware.

Primary activities (recent)

Working with clients to identify issues and problems in existing business environments, process mapping and definition,

Initiating and guiding development of new/revised processes, methods and procedures,

Systems design from concept and business case through logical requirements analysis to physical systems design and specification,

Data and functional analysis,

Systems integration, managing migration from old to new,

Enabling deployment of new and revised systems and processes through education, coaching and training,

Clients and colleagues include …

Sea Containers, Blue Circle Cement (UK, Europe, North/South America), Lafarge, Computer Associates, BUPA, NEC Computers International, National Grid plc, Philip Morris Europe, L'Oreal, Allianz Cornhill, Lasmo Oil, Premier Oil, Woolworths, Nationwide Building Society, ABT, Cheltenham and Gloucester Building Society, Portsmouth University, Gallaher Tobacco, Parsons Brinckerhoff, Addleshaw Goddard, Finnings, The National Blood Service, Eurocontrol (Belgium), Inbev, IBM (UK), Bournemouth University, Portsmouth University, Newcastle County Council, PMGS (Paris),Northern Rail, The Home Office, Cambridge University Press, Telstra (UK), Mobil Oil (USA),

Period - 1990 to present time…Independent Consultant

Over 16 years experience of people, process and systems development, project management and change management in organisations large and small, in many different areas of the world including North and South America, Europe and the Middle East .

Period - 1980…1990- Professional Consulting

Broad, multi-national background in organisational development, people development, project management, management services and professional consulting with the Hoskyns Group and Cap Gemini Sogeti. Sales and Marketing Manager with CGS Training for 3 years.

Period - 1970…80 - Systems and Programming

Systems and programming background, primarily commercial with some scientific specialisation. Systems programming, database development and real-time commercial applications in a wide range of sectors including finance, retail, engineering and software development.