
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’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 alignment
- Align business, digital and application strategy
- Boardroom engagement to shape transformations
Target operating model
- Digital strategy and roadmap
- Definition and design of business operating models
- Digital innovation
Digital roadmap design
- Define a roadmap for change
- Prioritise capabilities to be uplifted
- Define the transition points, to accelerate benefits realisation
Digital assessment adoption
- Process and organisational readiness review
- Change management for long term assessment transition programmes
- Assessment design and development
Delivery assurance
- Transformation office established to mobilise digital transformations
- Shaping business cases
- Engage teams from clients’ businesses and external stakeholders
- Launch the transformation
Enterprise architecture (Architecture as a Service - AaaS)
- Application landscape rationalisation
- Capability and vendor alignment
- Selection and commercial contracting
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
- Maturity assessment
- Data capability upgrade
- Data ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) delivery services
- Master data architecture
Our experts
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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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
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.