Fractional Transformation Office
Fractional Leadership · Transformation

Fractional Transformation Office

One joined-up transformation leadership capability across process, technology, and delivery.

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FeeBespoke
DurationProgramme-based
ModelCoordinated fractional team
Target uplift15–30% EBITDA
HandoverAt programme close

Why this exists

Most transformation providers address only one dimension of change. Technology consultants focus on platforms. Operations consultants focus on process. Programme managers focus on governance. The coordination gap between them is precisely where transformation most commonly fails.

Assured Velocity's Fractional Transformation Office combines process leadership, technology leadership, and programme governance into one coordinated team. One plan. One set of priorities. One accountability structure.

Target: 15–30% EBITDA uplift over programme lifetime

Three dimensions of transformation, coordinated

Process leadership

  • Operating model design
  • Process improvement
  • Ways of working
  • Change adoption

Technology leadership

  • Architecture and strategy
  • Platform and vendor governance
  • Integration oversight
  • Board reporting

Programme governance

  • Decision authority
  • Cross-workstream dependency
  • Risk management
  • SLT reporting

What it covers

  • Coordinated fractional leadership across process, technology, and programme delivery
  • Monthly SLT reporting, risk management, and programme governance
  • Cross-functional dependency management and resolution
  • Vendor-neutral programme assurance throughout
  • Full knowledge transfer and handover at programme close

What you receive

  • Governance pack with decision log and escalation protocol
  • Monthly SLT reporting pack
  • Risk register with active management throughout
  • Cross-functional dependency map, kept current
  • Programme assurance outputs at each major milestone
  • Full handover documentation at programme close

Ideal for

  • Companies in active transformation that cannot afford the coordination to fail
  • Scale-up, acquisition integration, or complex change environments
  • Businesses that need a full transformation leadership team but cannot justify three permanent senior hires
  • PE-backed businesses where value creation timelines require coordinated, multi-workstream delivery

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Value we create

Clarity. Confidence. Control.

Clarity

One joined-up transformation plan across process, technology, and delivery.

Confidence

Coordinated executive leadership accountable for the whole transformation portfolio.

Control

Integrated governance, financial discipline, and benefits realisation across all workstreams.

Natural next steps

Where the Fractional Transformation Office often pairs with other support

Transformation Office engagements frequently combine with diagnostics and delivery programmes.

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Practitioners - not process factories

You are not buying a generalist consultancy. You are buying a coordinated leadership team - accountable for the whole transformation, embedded in your business.

What we do

  • Every engagement led by Principal Consultants who have held equivalent roles permanently in comparable businesses
  • Commercially oriented - paid to find profit, not to sell more consulting
  • Honest - we will tell you if the evidence does not support the investment
  • Independent - benchmarked against 150+ businesses

What we are not

  • A consultancy presenting findings and walking away
  • A technology integrator with a platform to sell
  • A staffing business with an interim bench
  • A firm that produces reports that sit in a drawer

Frequently asked questions

What is a Fractional Transformation Office?

A Fractional Transformation Office provides the governance, coordination, and senior programme leadership for a portfolio of change initiatives - the TMO function - on a part-time or embedded basis. It brings the rigour of an enterprise TMO to a business that cannot justify building one permanently.

When does a business need a Fractional Transformation Office rather than a single interim leader?

When there are multiple concurrent change initiatives that need coordinated governance, interdependency management, and a single point of accountability for the programme portfolio - not just individual project management. The Fractional TMO provides the portfolio view that a single programme lead cannot.

What does a Fractional Transformation Office do day to day?

Day-to-day activities include: maintaining the programme portfolio view, chairing steering committees, managing interdependencies and escalations, providing challenge to individual programme leads, producing board and investor reporting, and ensuring that benefits realisation is tracked and owned.

How is a Fractional TMO different from a project management office?

A PMO manages the administration of projects. A TMO takes broader ownership of outcomes, strategic alignment, benefits realisation, and the connections between programmes. The Fractional TMO asks whether the portfolio is delivering the right things, not just whether each project is running to plan.

What size of change portfolio warrants a Fractional TMO?

As a rule of thumb, three or more concurrent workstreams with material interdependencies, a total programme budget above £2-3m, or a board or investor demanding a portfolio-level view of change delivery. Below this threshold, a lighter programme governance framework is usually sufficient.

Can a Fractional TMO be combined with other fractional leadership?

Yes - and this is a common model. A Fractional Transformation Office often works alongside a Fractional COO or CTO, with the TMO providing governance across the whole programme portfolio while the fractional executive leads specific operational or technology workstreams.

How does the Fractional TMO interface with the board and investors?

The Fractional TMO is typically the primary point of contact for board and investor reporting on the change programme. We design the reporting cadence and format, attend relevant board or investment committee meetings, and provide the honest, accurate programme view that governance requires.

What happens to programme governance when the Fractional TMO engagement ends?

We build internal capability throughout - ensuring that the processes, tools, and ways of working established by the Fractional TMO can be operated by the internal team when we leave. Dependency on external TMO indefinitely is a failure of the engagement.

How quickly can a Fractional TMO be mobilised?

One to two weeks. The initial priority is establishing the portfolio view, understanding the current state of each workstream, and setting up the governance cadence. Tangible governance improvement is visible within the first four weeks.

What does a Fractional Transformation Office engagement cost?

Monthly retained fee, calibrated to the number of days per week and the size of the portfolio. Contact us for a specific indication based on your programme scope.

All engagements are led by senior practitioners - not junior teams.