• Business Planning
  • Strategic Planning
  • Procurement Support
  • Programme Management
  • System modelling, design and engineering
  • Outsourcing

Business Planning
Public Private Partnership (PPP) is now an established method for developing large-scale public sector infrastructure projects in many European countries. The Irish Government has adopted the PPP approach to help provide much needed infrastructure enhancements in this country.

Recognising that a wide range of financial incentives are available to Irish development authorities and the need to introduce and maintain a competitive edge through the introduction of new and innovative models, Magnum Opus can support your initiatives in this area.

The development of a business plan requires a particular combination of business and financial analysis, investment criteria and options, organisational and operational options, a clear marketing plan and technological awareness. Magnum Opus can support and assist in the evaluation of these proposals.

Strategic Planning
We conduct strategic planning exercises with your team to extract your business objectives and outline the necessary research needs. This comprehensive session covers all the necessary aspects of a complete plan for your operations.

Due Diligence
Magnum Opus is ideally positioned to undertake an external objective review of your business plans and financial models to challenge your assumptions and verify their accuracy.

Procurement Support
The quality of your procurement cycle will determine the quality of your contracts. Magnum Opus can support the many phases of the cycle such as Needs Assessment, RFPs, Contracts, Service Provider Qualification & Selection and Relationship Management. Your procurement strategy should be structured to meet business plan needs, offer investment protection, and structured vendor relationship management. Our membership of the Irish Institute of Purchasing and Materials Management enables us to leverage the experience and support framework of the institute to the benefit of our clients.

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Bid Management
Magnum Opus offer many years of developing and capturing best practice in bid co-ordination, programme management and procurement support.

Acquisitions & Investments
Acquisitions & Investments involve a high degree of risk for your company since matters relating to the target company may in reality not be as envisaged. Decrease this risk through the instigation of a due diligence investigation that could include the following:

• Technical & Operational Synergies
• Detailed examination of the financial projections/forecasts

Regulatory Support
There are two main forces shaping business today, deregulation and EU membership. These drivers are leading to a number of trends, namely – Consolidation, Diversification and Increased Competition. Magnum Opus is uniquely poised to provide a range of investigation and representation services with direct experience of working with regulatory bodies in Ireland, the UK and the US.

Programme Management
Our Project Office is responsible for defining a series of simple practices and standard reports for use within Magnum Opus managed projects. Magnum Opus has developed a Project Management methodology which is comprised of a set of discrete modules.
Each project is assigned a project manager who is dedicated to your project for its duration – ensuring continuity and accountability. As our project management methodology is modular in structure it can therefore be tailored to suit the scale of the project ensuring management overhead is kept to a minimum, which translates into a more cost effective proposition for you the client.

Market Analysis
Access to the right information in a timely fashion is critical to sound business decisions. Magnum Opus can help to identify, acquire and analyse the data required to understand market conditions, trends and opportunities. Core skills at our disposal include market segmentation, characterisation, sizing, forecasting, competitive assessment, customer identification and customer requirements analysis.

System Modelling, Design and Engineering
Technology represents the foundation stone for business success in the 21st century, whatever the nature of the business. Magnum Opus, along with its many other capabilities, can facilitate and lead projects in the definition, delivery and management of technology-based business solutions. Our membership of the Institution of Engineers of Ireland enables us to leverage the experience and support framework of the institute to the benefit of our clients.

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Outsourcing
Whether for strategic or tactical necessity outsourcing needs to offer at least the same level of service as the in-house option. Magnum Opus can help with Needs Assessment, RFPs, Contracts, Service Provider Qualification and Selection, Relationship Management to ensure that your objectives are achieved.

System Operation
After what can be significant capital investment in systems and network, Magnum Opus can help you derive optimum use of this infrastructure through business process analysis and design. Our operations experience gained across a diverse range of technologies from wireless satellite based GSM to point to multipoint and wireline cable television to carrier class networks is unparalleled in the Irish market.