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Helping clients navigate the often-complex digital transformation journey

What we do

RMTM Consulting powered by Searchlight works with assessors and awarding bodies around the globe to help them define, design and deliver digital programmes accelerating the pace of change and maximising the benefits realised for educators and learners alike.

Based on our engagement with assessment providers around the world over the last 50 years, RM has established that there are 5 steps to delivering successful transformation from paper to digital.

RM Consulting’s 5 steps to delivering digital transformation

RM’s 5 steps to delivering digital transformation

Who we are

RM plc and Searchlight Consulting have joined forces and announced our strategic partnership to help educators and learners accelerate the benefits realised from their digital assessment journey.

The strategic partnership combines RM’s expertise in education and the use of technology to drive improvements and innovation with Searchlight’s digital transformation design and delivery capabilities. The combined consulting proposition focuses on helping customers to accelerate benefits from digitisation of the assessment and education journey.

Our Services

We have a portfolio of services which can be tailored to meet our clients' specific needs as we help them define, design and deliver digital assessment programmes:

Strategy

Strategy alignment
  • Align business, digital and application strategy
  • Boardroom engagement to shape transformations

Target

Target operating model
  • Digital strategy and roadmap
  • Definition and design of business operating models
  • Digital innovation

Roadmap

Digital roadmap design
  • Define a roadmap for change
  • Prioritise capabilities to be uplifted
  • Define the transition points, to accelerate benefits realisation

assessment adoption

Digital assessment adoption
  • Process and organisational readiness review
  • Change management for long term assessment transition programmes
  • Assessment design and development

delivery assurance

Delivery assurance
  • Transformation office established to mobilise digital transformations
  • Shaping business cases
  • Engage teams from clients’ businesses and external stakeholders
  • Launch the transformation

enterprises arch

Enterprise architecture (Architecture as a Service - AaaS)
  • Application landscape rationalisation
  • Capability and vendor alignment
  • Selection and commercial contracting

IT and digital operating model

IT and digital operating model
  • Defining the digital & IT capabilities that are established in house and which might be considered for outsourcing
  • Establishing new ways of working that enable digital business capabilities to be deployed and the benefits available to be accessed and optimised
  • Creating a roadmap to gradually increase operating model maturity with respect to people, process, enabling technology, culture and strategy

Master data governance

Master data governance
  • Maturity assessment
  • Data capability upgrade
  • Data ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) delivery services
  • Master data architecture

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To understand how we may help you move forwards to drive value through digital transformation.

Our experts 

 

Gareth Williams

Gareth Williams

Lead Service Architect

Gareth consults on all aspects of service design and transition for digital assessment with a user-centric approach - including operational readiness, user experience and support, training and capability building and process mapping.

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Gwyneth Toolan

Gwyneth Toolan

Digital Adoption Manager

Gwyneth is RM’s Digital Adoption Manager, working with the biggest names in global high stakes assessment to ensure their users and customers are ready, excited and confident for the move to digital assessment.

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Keith O’Hara

Keith O’Hara

Delivery Director

A digital transformation programme director with over 25 years of experience helping clients transform their business through better use of technology, focussing on always delivering tangible benefits.

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Steve Sharp

Steve Sharp

Engagement Director

25 years of experience helping clients to design and deliver business transformations. Focus on aligning business, digital and application strategy and designing transformations to deliver benefits at pace.

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Andrew Lapham MSc

Andrew Lapham MSc

Chief Digital Officer

A strong strategic knowledge of the global digital marketplace backed up with solid international consulting experience having lived and worked in Europe.

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Duncan Jamieson

Duncan Jamieson

Head of Master Data Management & Governance

Over 30 years’ experience of data and the key role it plays within organisations, helping multiple businesses govern and drive value from their data.

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Jacob Niksarlioglu

Jacob Niksarlioglu

Enterprise Architect

15+ years of experience working in and on organisations, delivering technology-enabled change, operational excellence, and digital capabilities across sales, marketing, operations and finance functions.

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Kevin McGinley

Kevin McGinley

Transformation Director

Highly successful transformational change specialist with a breath of expertise in planning and delivering business benefits as major blue-chip companies undertake transformational business change.

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Graham Bateman

Graham Bateman

Senior Project

Extensive management experience across all stages of the business change management and solution delivery lifecycles, and is adept in utilising waterfall, iterative and agile delivery methods.

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Our track record

Our consultancy draws on RM’s 50 years of specialist experience as a global EdTech, digital learning and assessment solutions provider and combines it with Searchlight’s 17 years of digital transformation design and delivery capabilities. This makes us uniquely placed to bring assessment platform and consulting know-how together to help organisations to accelerate their digital assessment journey, supporting and enabling digital implementation and adoption. 

We can support you with guidance on:

  • how to get started on digital transformation (moving from paper to digital assessment)
  • moving forward with digital programmes that have already started but are stalling
  • successful delivery, when organisations have had one or more attempt at digital transformation
  • realising the benefits at the pace desired

 Trust us to guide you. Explore how we drive real change with our customers on their journey to digital assessment and in achieving their unique assessment ambitions with us by their side. 

Case studies

Innovating national exams in New Zealand

Innovating national exams in New Zealand

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Digitising Exam Marking in South Africa

Digitising Exam Marking in South Africa

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Delivering Remote Chartered Accounting Exams

Delivering Remote Chartered Accounting Exams

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Successful Digital Assessment Adoption at Pace

Successful Digital Assessment Adoption at Pace

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Multi-Channel Digital Transformation

Multi-Channel Digital Transformation

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Digital Transformation Programme

Digital Transformation Programme

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Digital Transformation Programme

Professional Qualifications Client Digital Transformation Programme

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Book a consultation:

An initial complimentary consultation can be booked via the form below.

An initial online meeting with us will typically last around 30 minutes and enable you to outline the particular stage of your digital journey and understand how we may help you move forwards to drive value through digital transformation.