When I can help
Growth is stretching the function
The organisation expects more from workplace. You need to establish whether the team’s remit, capacity and skills have kept pace.
Responsibilities have shifted
Restructuring or leadership change has altered who owns what. You need clarity about decisions, responsibilities and how the different functions work together.
Delivery is moving to a provider
Outsourcing changes what your team must do. You need to establish the expertise, capacity and responsibilities that must remain inside the organisation.
Agreeing the change is only part of the work
A new direction can be agreed while important questions remain unresolved.
Does the workplace team have the time, skills and authority it needs? Have the people responsible for delivery helped shape the decision? Is it clear what stays inside the organisation when services move to a provider?
These questions connect decisions about people, services, technology and cost. Left unresolved, they can lead to conflicting priorities, repeated decisions and pressure on teams already running day-to-day operations.
What needs to change?
Who needs to be involved?
What will it take to make it work?
A clearer view of the decision you need to make
When a workplace decision involves several functions, each can see a different part of the situation. I bring those perspectives together to help you understand what needs attention and decide what to do next.
Start with a focused review
We agree one live decision or situation to examine. I speak with you and relevant stakeholders, review supporting documents and explore the responsibilities, capabilities and dependencies involved.
I bring the findings together in a concise Situation Map, showing what is clear, where perspectives differ and what still needs checking.
We review it together to identify the choices, consequences and priorities for action.
You work directly with me throughout. Where continued support would be useful, we agree that separately.
Twenty-five years working inside organisations and service providers, connecting workplace decisions with the capabilities, responsibilities and services needed to deliver them.
Bringing separate functions into one operating model
Helped establish shared goals and implemented a global workplace operating model, clarifying governance, regional responsibilities and how the function worked with the business.
Experience relevant to your situation
Retaining expertise when delivery moves outside
Designed and implemented a specialist outsourced operating model, distinguishing the work moving to a provider from the expertise and oversight the organisation still needed.
Giving leaders a clearer basis for investment decisions
Brought fragmented property projects into a coordinated capital pipeline, introducing forecasting, comparable decision papers and whole-life-cost planning.
Thinking through workplace decisions
Observations on how workplace decisions take shape, what they require of an organisation and where difficulties emerge in practice.
Bringing workplace teams into one function
The groundwork before the business case
Separate teams can have strong expertise but different priorities, processes and measures of success. Reflections from my experience of building shared purpose, clearer governance and a coherent workplace function.
A compelling proposal does not create agreement on its own. Understanding different priorities, decision-making and funding is part of the work before the business case is written.
About Howard
I’m Howard Murray, founder of In Fieri.
Over twenty-five years, I’ve worked inside organisations and service providers, helping shape workplace functions, operating models and services through growth and change.
That experience has taught me to examine what a decision requires of the organisation: the skills and capacity available, who owns what, how different functions work together and what suppliers need from the client.
I bring an independent perspective, grounded in the realities of running workplace operations. I listen to different accounts, test assumptions and help leaders identify practical choices and their consequences.
You work directly with me throughout.
What is changing in your organisation?
If growth, restructuring or a change in services is raising questions about your workplace function, we can talk through the situation and whether my support would be useful.
In a 30-minute conversation, we’ll discuss what is happening, the decision you are facing and whether there is a useful next step.
Howard Murray
Founder, In Fieri
howard@infieri.co.uk
Prefer to write? Briefly describe the situation and what you would like help thinking through.