Strategic Planning • Churn Contract Management • Relocation Programming • Multi-Service Contractor Management • Data Gathering & Collating • Information Co-ordination • Filing and Storage Consultancy • Project Communication • Site Support and Supervision • Pre- and Post-Move Help Desk Services • Cost/Change Control • Space Utilisation and ‘Agile Workspace’ Consultancy

Strategic Planning

Harrow Green’s Project Management division is primarily the strategic services arm of the company. Its role is to work with clients and their other service providers to turn new business visions into achievable, successful outcomes, broadly focusing on the relocation environment. For external project management companies, the division provides strategic support more closely linked to the specific relocation activity.

Churn Contract Management

Rationalising the existing workplace to build a better business is known as ‘churn’. Harrow Green’s Project Management division helps clients create and manage their churn, delivering carefully planned strategic programmes that are expedient, smoothly executed and maintain maximum business continuity.

Relocation Programming

Without good project management and programming, commercial moving services lack an essential ingredient. Our project managers are experienced and adept at building relocation programmes that ensure a lean, on time, cost-effective move and uninterrupted business for you.

Multi-Service Contractor Management

You can use our project managers to co-ordinate the activities of a whole range of other contractors, providing you with a single source of project control. Central co-ordination between service providers brings common goals into sharp focus, tightens control and delivers more efficient cost management and performance.

Data Gathering and Collating

Knowledge dictates performance. The first priority of a business change programme is establishing a clear understanding of the tasks that lie ahead. Harrow Green’s project managers can expertly and rigorously gather and collate intelligence on assets and the needs of individuals and departments. This provides a clear and critical starting point for any project and strongly influences the creation of a well-informed plan.

Information Co-ordination

Information can be used in many positive ways to bring about ownership of the project by your people. Our project managers focus strongly on keeping your staff fully informed about the aims and progress of the programme in which they will play a part. Giving us responsibility for co-ordinating and delivering information – from staff briefings to move packs – means that what you want to say to your people, and when, remains consistent and timely.

Filing and Storage Consultancy

When organisations move they generally have any one of three issues to deal with when it comes to business paperwork: the new storage media is not compatible with the old; their new workplace is aiming for less paperwork; what they do have needs to be less visible. Our project managers provide expert consultancy on filing migration and finding effective ways of keeping paperwork out of sight, but not out of touch.

Project Communication

Information relates to the workforce, communication relates to the project team. Our project managers design and build communication strategies that help bring team members, and those they report to, into close partnership working. Issues, decisions, progress, minutes and milestones need to remain in sharp focus and all are managed by Harrow Green through traditional mediums, such as structured meetings, and the latest online communication tools such as e-rooms.

Site Support and Supervision

Our project managers’ most visible role is the service they provide in supervising and co-ordinating the physical change programme on-site. Project managers remain with all projects for their duration, often taking up temporary residency on very long or complex programmes. They play a pivotal role as the main bridge between your strategic aims and the teams implementing your programme.

Pre- and Post-Move Help Desk Services

The Harrow Green service exists before and beyond project completion. Pre-move, on-site help desks act as a visible information point. Post-move, those first few days and weeks when success is being evaluated by staff are crucial. We remain with the project, facilitating a smooth integration into the new working environment and maintaining a profile for as long as we’re needed.

Cost/Change Control

Keeping a close eye on cost and progress is an essential part of our performance. Harrow Green’s project managers are extremely flexible in how they manage projects, monitoring changes in the workload, and advising you on how those changes affect the programme. Variances and their financial implications are flagged up immediately, likely outcomes are accurately predicted, and decisions can be made as to how best to keep the project, and its cost, on track.

Space Utilisation and ‘Agile Workspace’ Consultancy

Business change is about business efficiency, which is why part of our commercial service portfolio looks at the relationship between people and their working environment. Our project managers can help you achieve an 'agile workspace’ by looking at the space you occupy and the roles people play. From there it’s possible to see whether your working environment could benefit from solutions as simple as closer proximity working for teams or individuals, or as progressive as hot desking or remote working.