What changed?

The Impacts and Benefits

Impacts for the Company 

As a company rooted in the Visual Effects industry, the vast majority of our team understandably comes from creative and technical backgrounds specific to post-production. Until recently, we had limited exposure to management science or structured business consulting approaches. While this served us well during our earlier phases of growth, it became increasingly clear that to scale effectively and operate more strategically, we needed a broader set of capabilities.

Bringing in a KTP Associate with software programming, business analysis, and management science background has offered precisely that. The knowledge transfer has already proved valuable—particularly in areas like structured problem-structuring.

That mindset has informed our approach to this collaboration as well, and it's brought us fresh, outside-in perspectives that are now shaping how we think about our operations and long-term planning.

Impacts for the Academic Team 

The university could benefit from research opportunities stimulated by this project, particularly in understanding how companies across industries face similar challenges when reaching a certain stage of business growth. Many organisations struggle with scaling effectively, making this an area ripe for further academic exploration.

Impacts for the KTP Associate 

The process of unlearning and relearning concepts has been particularly interesting, as these concepts were previously acquired through hands-on experience rather than a theoretical foundation. This has been especially relevant to project management, stakeholder management, and change management.

Secondly, there has been significant personal development in adapting to a new working culture in yet another country. This has required an assessment of the leadership skills acquired from other cultural environments, determining which aspects should be adjusted or left behind to align with professional expectations in the UK.

Finally, it has become evident that the Visual Effects industry is uniquely complex—yet so are all other industries I have worked with as clients in the past. While each sector has its own distinct characteristics, valuable lessons from one industry often prove applicable and reinforcing across others.