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Ways of Working Strategy

Create a more productive, connected, and effective workplace with a strategy designed around how your people work. Valto helps organisations align technology, processes, and culture to enable better collaboration, communication, and employee experiences.

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Overview

Transform the way your organisation works

Technology has fundamentally changed how organisations operate. Hybrid working, digital collaboration, AI, and evolving employee expectations require businesses to rethink how people communicate, share knowledge, access information, and get work done. A successful ways of working strategy goes beyond technology implementation. It focuses on creating an environment where people can collaborate effectively, work efficiently, and adopt new ways of working with confidence. Valto works with organisations to assess current working practices, identify opportunities for improvement, and develop practical strategies that support productivity, engagement, knowledge sharing, and organisational effectiveness. Whether you're modernising collaboration, preparing for AI adoption, improving employee experience, or redefining hybrid working, we help create a workplace that enables success.

Why teams choose it

Improve productivity

Disconnected systems, inefficient processes, and poor information sharing can impact performance across the organisation. A clear ways of working strategy helps employees spend less time searching for information and more time delivering value.

Support modern working

Hybrid and flexible working models continue to evolve. A strategic approach ensures employees have the tools, processes, and guidance needed to collaborate effectively wherever they work.

Prepare for future innovation

AI, automation, and emerging technologies are changing how work gets done. Establishing strong ways of working today creates the foundations needed to successfully adopt future technologies tomorrow.

Our approach

How we help

Every organisation has its own culture, processes, and operational challenges. That's why we take a tailored approach to understanding how work happens across your business before making recommendations. Our consultants work closely with stakeholders to assess current collaboration practices, communication methods, knowledge management processes, governance frameworks, and employee experiences. Using these insights, we develop practical strategies that improve productivity, strengthen engagement, and support long-term organisational goals. Whether you're reviewing Microsoft 365, preparing for Copilot adoption, improving hybrid working, or driving wider cultural change, we help ensure your technology and ways of working remain aligned.

How it works

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Understand your current environment
We engage with stakeholders to understand how teams currently communicate, collaborate, share information, and complete day-to-day tasks.
2
Identify challenges & opportunities
Through workshops, reviews, and analysis, we identify friction points, inefficiencies, governance gaps, and opportunities to improve the employee experience.
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Develop your strategy
Our consultants build a tailored ways of working strategy aligned to your organisational goals, workforce needs, and technology investments.
4
Create a roadmap for success
We provide practical recommendations, priorities, and next steps to help your organisation deliver meaningful improvements and support future transformation initiatives.

The team keeping you ahead

Dena JonesBusiness Applications Business Unit Lead

Rob ThomasMS365 & Azure Business Unit Lead

Kelvin WrightModern Workplace Business Unit Lead

Hugh ValentineFounder & CEO

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Questions, answered plainly

Practical answers on our ways of working sessions.

A ways of working strategy defines how people, processes, technology, and culture come together to support collaboration, productivity, communication, and organisational effectiveness.

As organisations adopt new technologies, hybrid working models, and AI solutions, it's important to ensure employees have clear processes, governance, and support that enable them to work effectively.

By reducing inefficiencies, improving information sharing, streamlining collaboration, and creating more consistent working practices, organisations can help employees work more effectively and make better use of technology.

No. While Microsoft technologies often play a key role in enabling modern ways of working, the primary focus is understanding how your organisation operates and identifying opportunities for improvement.

Absolutely. AI adoption is most successful when supported by strong governance, effective collaboration practices, well-managed content, and clear ways of working across the organisation.

Ways of working strategies are most effective when they involve business leaders, department stakeholders, IT teams, HR teams, and representatives from across the organisation.

Organisations typically gain a clearer understanding of current challenges, a practical strategy for improvement, and a roadmap for enhancing collaboration, productivity, and employee experience.

Valto combines Microsoft expertise, digital workplace experience, and business consultancy skills to help organisations create working environments that support productivity, engagement, and long-term success.

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