More companies than ever are relying on flexible labour models to manage and grow their businesses. To manage a strategic asset, you need to treat it like a strategic asset. It starts with visibility, grows into governance and then finally a solid strategy can be formed
To strategise, you need information. Data. Insight. For external workers, this is often dispersed, fragmented and only partly credible, so many organisations have never set an intentional strategy at all.
When there’s no strategy connecting external workforce use to business goals, the gaps show up in other places. Cost overruns, compliance exposure, and a workforce that can’t flex when the business needs it to.
You need a clear policy that defines when and why external workers are used, under what terms, and who’s responsible for decisions. Leadership needs visibility. A single view of the external workforce and how it connects to the business plans ahead.
We work with you to build the foundational infrastructure needed to establish a strategy. Auditing what you’ve got, establishing worker definitions and data foundations as the basis for consistent reporting and ongoing visibility.
Take our Concerto® assessment to score your maturity across future talent planning, sourcing models, scalability and business strategy alignment. You’ll see where you sit today, what the next level up looks like, and where your functions disagree about it.
Assessments start at £800, including your results call and a tailored report. Credited back if you go on to work with us.
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Jools Barrow-Read
Founder, RedWizard
Most organisations can't answer basic questions about their extended workforce. Who's engaged, through what, at what cost, and who's accountable. That was always a problem. From April 2026, it becomes an expensive one.
Jools Barrow-Read
Founder