Strategy
Clear direction and implementation pathways.
Strategy that moves into implementation
Machard Holdings provides specialist advisory support across strategy, skills development, institutional performance, research and economic transformation.
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We work where strategy, skills, institutions and implementation meet
These four are one connected piece of work, not four separate services. The firm works from strategic analysis through to practical implementation and results.
Skills
Connecting economic demand, occupations and learning.
Evidence
Research that supports better decisions.
Implementation
Turning plans into structured delivery.
The problems we are usually called in on
Assignments rarely arrive tidy. They arrive as a situation somebody needs resolved.
- A strategy exists on paper, but nothing has moved.
- Skills planning has drifted away from what industry actually needs.
- Decisions are being taken without evidence anyone fully trusts.
- A programme is running, and no one can say clearly what it is achieving.
- An economic transition is coming, and the workforce is not ready for it.
- Terms of Reference need to attract the right expertise, and be defensible.
How we work
One method, applied end to end. Each stage hands something concrete to the next.
Understand
Start with the people involved, the context they work in, and what the assignment must achieve.
Hands on → a scoped questionAnalyse
Bring together evidence, stakeholder insight and institutional knowledge to establish what matters and why.
Hands on → findings that holdDesign
Develop practical strategies, frameworks and solutions with the people who will have to use them.
Hands on → a workable designImplement
Stay close to delivery: coordinate teams, track progress, resolve problems and hold quality.
Hands on → results in placeWho we work with
Complex assignments, multiple stakeholders, and the need to turn good ideas into something that works in practice.
- Government departments and public entities
- International development partners
- Education and training institutions
- Sector bodies and industry associations
- Private-sector clients
Where the specialist expertise sits
Two areas carry the deepest experience, and both are where strategy meets the labour market.
Skills systems and labour markets
Skills demand analysis, occupational analysis, qualifications and curricula, and education-to-employment pathways.
See the services →Just Energy Transition and future skills
JET skills planning, green hydrogen, New Energy Vehicles and batteries, renewable and clean-energy skills, regional skills planning.
Find Out More →Institutional performance
Strategic and business planning, governance frameworks, organisational development, monitoring, evaluation and learning.
See the experience →Tell us what you are working on
If you are working through a complex strategy, skills, research or implementation challenge, we are happy to start with a conversation.