Driving sustainable economic growth
Adding value to client relationships
Our ability to help our clients make an impact is driven by the emphasis we place on building long-term, trusted relationships – spending time to get to know our clients’ business so that we can support them through their biggest challenges.
We are advising clients on some of the most complex and exciting projects being delivered in the UK. Many of these projects are helping to address the major challenges being faced by government, business and the public alike and have the potential to transform the UK economy and wider society for many years to come.
We place great emphasis on matching the right teams of people with each client, and equipping them with the skills and tools they need to deliver the best Deloitte can offer. In 2012, we launched the Deloitte Relationship Management programme to provide dedicated support to our client account teams and to encourage the sharing of best practice. Additionally, through our independent Client Feedback programme, we regularly conduct independent reviews with our clients. In FY13, this dedicated team carried out 344 interviews across 83 clients, 200 reviews are planned for this year.
Last year we introduced a 12-month academic curriculum for client account teams, delivered in partnership with The University of Oxford’s Said Business School. During FY13, fifty-six teams have been engaged in this programme and, to date, a total of 463 partners have participated within these teams. We have also invested in the development of specific tools and assets designed to bring innovative solutions and thought leadership to our clients. These tools include Business Chemistry - a bespoke business focused personality tool we developed with a team of neuro-scientists.
“On the relationship side I would say the key strengths have been just the willingness to engage in a way that works for this organisation, to invest enough time in getting to know us and then just to be able to have sensible conversations.”