Lumsdaine Consulting — independent IT advisory

Risk you can explain in one meeting.

Most organisations we meet are not careless — they are unclear. Controls exist, spend exists, but nobody can say what would happen on a bad Friday. We give you that answer

What we do

Skeleton assessment

You already have posture assesments. We will show you where your skeletons live.

Incident readiness

A response plan that names people, not roles, and a tabletop exercise to prove it works. Who calls the insurer, who talks to customers, who has the offline copy of the plan.

What you leave with

A ranked findings register with owners and effort estimates

A tested incident response plan and contact tree

A board pack you can present without us in the room

Distributed team productivity

Teams that work well apart.

Distributed work fails quietly: decisions made in calls nobody recorded, handovers that lose a day across time zones, calendars full and output flat. We look at how work moves through your organisation and fix the joints, not the tools.

What we do

Workflow diagnostic

We trace three real pieces of work end to end and time every wait. The result is usually uncomfortable and always specific: where the queue forms, who is blocked on whom, and what a day of latency costs you.

Meeting and decision hygiene

A written default for decisions, a smaller standing calendar, and clear rules for what is synchronous. Teams typically recover four to six hours per person per week — and stop repeating arguments.

What you leave with

A written operating agreement your team helped draft

A rebuilt meeting calendar with hours returned