Supporting Your Business Through Expert Consultancy
Quality, passion and customer focus to bring your vision to life.
We are good listeners
In today’s dynamic business landscape, having a trusted advisor can make all the difference.
Our consultancy services are designed to provide you with the expertise and energy needed to address challenges and seize opportunities. We can help you achieve your goals, and our customer-centric, down to earth approach ensures that solutions are tailored to your unique needs.
Here’s how we make a difference.
- We take a person focused approach to understanding your requirements
- Our CDAS methodology is a proven framework for successful outcomes
- We are certified across a range of technologies and methodologies
- Experience across various sectors including Health, Energy and Education
- Chess are an established, 260-strong technology provider
Our Expertise
Project Management
We invest in our people and their expertise. Our Digital Project Managers have the opportunity to become certified in PRINCE2, PSPO, and PSM. Success comes from understanding and blending key principles associated with each.
Co Design
Through our relationship with a world leading design school, we were early adopters of an empathy-focused, design-based approach to capturing and documenting requirements.
Case Study
Cambridge Community Services
Creating a Unified Digital Experience for Enhanced Patient Care
Cambridge Community NHS Trust engaged Chess to consolidate digital services across multiple departments. The goal was to create a unified digital platform that supports the unique needs of various health services while improving user experiences.
Chess facilitated seven online workshops using Miro, involving over 40 participants from different services. A collaborative approach focused on understanding service-specific requirements through the development of user personas, brand evaluation, and high level prototyping.
The workshops generated a detailed, categorised set of functional and user requirements, structured around six key themes. These insights shaped the project's development phase, ensuring the final service was person-centered and aligned with each organisation's goals.
"It was really helpful to be able to talk to Chess’ senior dev team and be able to get their input into what the solution could be. Being able to have that experience supporting us was great."
Alex Keep
Digital Communications Lead, Cambridge Community NHS Trust
Our Approach
We're able to support each stage of your digital transformation journey and provide a service that reflects our key principles and behaviours of quality, passion and accuracy.
Consult
We assess your business needs and technical requirements to deliver innovative solutions that ensure scalability, security, and cost-efficiency.
Deliver
We implement appropriate technologies and solutions that modernise your operations, streamline workflows, and enhance customer experiences.
Adopt
We guide your team through the transition, offering training and change management strategies to ensure successful adoption of new tools and processes.
Support
We provide ongoing support, optimisation, and updates to ensure your digital solutions continue to evolve and drive business success.
Knowledge and Insight
eBook
People vs Technology: How to Bridge the Digital Skills Gap
Meet our team
Digital Transformation Director
Adrian Allan
Adrian is an experienced IT professional with over 15 years in the Industry, starting off his career as a Sharepoint Developer. Adrian now leads the Chess Digital team and oversees digital transformation and growth for Chess.
Creative Consultant
Don McIntyre
With over 25 years of experience in design and technology, Don has worked on digital products for companies like Virtuality, Oyster Partners, and Fraunhofer Institute. Currently, Don is Design Director at Glasgow School of Art and the Digital Health and Care Innovation Centre.
Project Director
Chris Robb
Chris has a background across the software delivery lifecycle, and currently runs our various project teams.
An avid sailor and keen off-roader, Chris is equally happy anchored in a remote bay somewhere, sailing across an ocean, or bogged down to the doors in mud doing winch recoveries.
Development Team Leader
Darren Clark
Darren started of his career within the manufacturing sector and has been developing applications for over two decades. He is responsible for leading and mentoring a team of developers across the UK and has excellent analytical and problem-solving skills to ensure the client's requirements are satisfied.
Senior Developer
Neeta Bari
Neeta has extensive experience in all aspects of the Software development life cycle and is a Microsoft SharePoint expert, with excellent knowledge of full Microsoft 365 stack.
Senior Developer
Michal Mikielski
Michal has nearly 20 years of professional experience and is certified in application development, Azure, SharePoint and Scrum. He is always keen to learn new technologies or frameworks, while sharing knowledge and promoting best practices among the rest of the development team.
Developer
Gary Mulhall
Gary worked in various roles, from a brief stint in an M.O.T station, bar work and several years spent in retail while studying software development at university. Upon graduating in 2019, Gary was offered a graduate developer role with Chess. With 5 years of industry experience and knowledge he is now a key developer within the digital team.
Developer
Imram Khokar
Imram began his software development career as a Summer Intern at Chess in 2019. After graduating from university, he was offered a graduate developer role with the company.
Throughout his time at Chess, he has worked on a multitude of projects, spanning both front-end and back-end development.
Get in touch
We pride ourselves on being approachable and easy to work with.
If you would like to discuss any aspect of Digital Transformation and where you might need support or advice, let us know and we’ll do our best to help.
