Listening to our Directors and Principals

25 BDO LLP | LISTENING TO OUR DIRECTORS AND PRINCIPALS

A SPOTLIGHT ON CLIENT TAKE-ON  In one group, we heard of a challenge with Client Take-On and our current SSC model  In Valuations, there was a powerful experience shared about the personal implications of working through the CTO and Project Code process – where is has reduced team members to tears - as well as client delivery implications. NEXT STEP FOR DIRECTORS AND PRINCIPALS  Continue to raise IT issues with the IT Service Desk for immediate support  Paul has asked a group of the Principals who attended the listening event (Ashley Carter, Shawn Healey, Malcolm Pengelly, Charles Pascoe) to work together to build a case study of examples of issues they have faced and recommendations, which we can review with our CIO, Head of IT and Ops Board  Where you can, please bear in mind that BDO sends 48 million emails a week and our IT Service Desk deals with 46,000 IT incidents a year, so we need to be patient at times.

NEXT STEP FOR BDO  Consider the idea raised by a number of Principals to reinstate the ‘Dealing with IT issues’ timecode so we have a clearer idea of how much time we collectively spend in this area  Consider the idea raised about an IT ‘how to fix it’ promotional campaign: ‘Don’t suffer in silence on IT issues: here’s what to do if you have an IT problem’  Consider the idea the one Principal had: iPads should be given to senior staff, given the quality of that technology in an agile world; this feedback will be passed to the team reviewing our IT equipment programme that is being adopted as we shift to Agile Working  Reflect on the best balance of face-to- face support versus self-help as we switch to Agile Working  Urgently review the CTO/SSC experience that has happened in Valuations. We seem to like designing IT products fit for super tankers but forget that some pockets of the firm just want a working fishing boat. “

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