Strategy creates direction. Capability makes it achievable.
Start with a conversationWe help organisations shape their future, establish the capabilities to deliver it and make change work. From strategic direction to engineering, transformation and leadership, we bring together what the challenge requires.
The challenge
Organisations rarely struggle because they lack ideas. The difficulty is translating those ideas into decisions, structures, systems and ways of working that deliver results.
Sometimes the direction is unclear. Sometimes the strategy is sound, but the organisation lacks the capability to execute it. Sometimes the technology, programme or operating model needs to be redesigned. And sometimes the missing ingredient is experienced leadership.
DGC works across those boundaries.
Establish direction, understand the choices and determine what the organisation needs to become capable of doing.
Bring together the organisational design, expertise, engineering and delivery capability required to turn decisions into results.
Establish the leadership, governance, people and operational capability needed to sustain what has been created.
What we do
Complex challenges rarely fit neatly within a single consulting discipline. DGC brings together strategic, organisational, technical and delivery expertise to address the whole problem.
Helping organisations establish direction, make informed choices and align investment, capability and execution with strategic intent.
Work may include business and technology strategy, strategic advisory, governance, investment planning and executive decision support.
Designing and establishing the organisational capabilities required to turn strategy into sustained performance.
DGC applies Enterprise Capability Engineering to connect strategic intent with the organisational design, governance, people and ways of working required to deliver it.
Work may include capability assessment, operating models, organisational design, governance, risk and capability development.
Turning organisational needs into integrated designs and engineered solutions that can be implemented, operated and changed.
This spans enterprise and solution architecture, cybersecurity, cloud, infrastructure, telecommunications, identity, data architecture and engineering.
Turning agreed direction and design into coordinated change that works in practice.
This can include transformation planning, programme leadership, technical delivery, implementation, operational readiness and transition.
Providing experienced leadership and specialist capability where an organisation needs accountability, momentum or additional depth.
This can include executive advisory, interim and virtual leadership, specialist teams, operational improvement, crisis management and recovery.
How we work
Every engagement begins somewhere different. Some organisations need help defining the challenge. Others have a clear direction and need the design, engineering, delivery expertise or leadership to make it happen.
DGC joins at the point of need and works across the boundaries required to deliver the outcome.
Explore possibilities, establish direction and determine what is worth pursuing.
Translate intent into the organisational, operational and technical designs required to deliver it.
Establish capabilities, engineer solutions and deliver the change.
Embed the people, governance and operational practices needed to sustain performance.
The outcome is capability that lasts.
Capability should be designed to last.
Organisations can deliver strategies, programmes, systems and structures successfully and still find themselves no more capable than before.
Enterprise Capability Engineering is DGC's approach to closing that gap. It treats the organisation's ability to achieve and sustain an intended outcome as the thing to be understood, designed, built and owned.
The method connects strategic intent, organisational design, people, process, governance and technology rather than treating them as separate interventions.
A capability is more than a function, system or team.
It is the integration of purpose, ownership, participants, resources, information, mechanisms, measures and operating conditions around an intended outcome.
The ability lives in the integration.
Explore Enterprise Capability Engineering
Understand the organisation's actual circumstances before recommending a course of action.
Consider strategy, people, processes, governance and technology together, rather than designing each in isolation.
Deliver change in a way that leaves the organisation able to operate, develop and sustain what has been established.
Enterprise Capability Engineering
Enterprise Capability Engineering is developed across two volumes by DGC Group founder Deepak Veerasamy.
Book One · Forthcoming
Why organisations struggle, and how to build capabilities that last
Book One examines why organisations can deliver successfully without becoming more capable, establishes the foundations of enterprise capability, and introduces the Enterprise Capability Engineering method.
Book Two · Forthcoming
What a capability is made of, and how to work on one
Book Two takes the discipline into enterprise design and practice, working through the decisions required to design, build, transform and sustain capability.
Experience
DGC's experience spans different sectors, countries and types of challenge. What carries across is the ability to understand the situation, connect the disciplines it requires and take responsibility for moving it forward.
Experience spans central and local government, utilities and critical infrastructure, telecommunications, financial services, health and community services, hospitality, property, retail, technology and managed services.
Work has been undertaken across New Zealand, Australia, the Pacific, Africa, the Gulf, Europe, the United States and the Caribbean.
The firm
DGC Group is an independent New Zealand consultancy established in 2009.
We bring together strategic thinking, enterprise capability, technical depth, delivery experience and executive leadership. The model is deliberately flexible. DGC can provide focused expertise, assemble a multidisciplinary team or take ongoing responsibility where the engagement requires it.
Clients engage DGC, not a collection of individual contractors. We take responsibility for the people we bring, the work we undertake and the outcomes we commit to deliver.
Deepak Veerasamy founded DGC Group and brings experience spanning executive leadership, enterprise capability, architecture, engineering and complex technology delivery.
His approach connects strategic intent with the practical realities of implementation and operation.
Deepak is also the author of Lead With Love: Helping Others Achieve Their Definition of Success. The book explores a people-centred approach to leadership and complements his work on Enterprise Capability Engineering.
Deepak Veerasamy
Principal · CISSP
Ways to engage
There is no single starting point. We shape the engagement around the challenge, the capability already available and the outcome required.
An initial discussion to understand the challenge, explore the options and determine whether DGC is the right fit.
A focused engagement to establish the current position, examine the options and define a practical way forward.
A defined engagement to design, establish or transform an organisational capability, system or service.
Executive advisory, interim leadership, specialist capability or ongoing operational responsibility, structured around the organisation's needs.
Contact
Whether you're exploring an opportunity, addressing a difficult problem or preparing for significant change, the first step is a conversation.
Tell us what you're working towards. We'll explore where DGC can help.
DGC Group Limited
Auckland, New Zealand
