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Access skills not currently in the business.
Staff augmentation lets departments, leaders, teams, and managers add skilled resources to supplement existing staff, without the long lead times of permanent hires.
Department
as a service.
For the innovators. Whether you are building a department from scratch, or augmenting one you already run, we make your disruptive visions a reality.
Execution is everything
We believe six quality goals must be achieved for a project to be considered successful. Those goals, together with our clients' product vision, drive our blended team and define our team model. The entire team is responsible for the project's success, and our approach provides transparency, accountability, and a sharp focus on business outcomes.
— Praxis Partners, on how we work
If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
What is Department as a service?
A department of one or one hundred. We plug straight into your business to increase capacity and capability. A full team, or specific specialist skills, on a budget you control.
Definition
DaaS is where you engage Praxis to provide a dedicated department, a partial department, or fractional specialists to help you deliver your product, service, or solution. It's an ongoing relationship that delivers benefits across its full lifecycle, and lets you use continuous skills and support to keep strategy and product delivery running smoothly.
DaaS can cover anything across marketing and technology. You work with one of our established departments, where each person has been working together for years.
There is no hiring trial and error. The collaboration, the department building, the tools, systems, and processes have already been settled. The learning curve is getting up to speed on your business objectives and specific requirements.
Design and customise your department, full time or fractional. Build it yourself, or build it together with us.
Discover. Design. Deploy.
When we first engage, the focus is speed to implement your newly built department inside your business. We start with internal interviews across you, your existing team, and the broader departments. From there we identify opportunities, then run collaborative workshops to design the department to your requirements.
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Discover
Internal interviews across the leadership, the team, and the broader departments. We unpack the challenges, reflect them back, and align everyone to a no-lock-in 12 month transformation and adoption pathway.
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Design
Collaborative workshops to shape the department to your specific requirements. This is where we get to know your team, departments, and business, and where we map the gaps against your 12 month roadmap.
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Deploy
A three tier pod department, embedded inside your business and operating as an internal extension of your own. Scale up. Scale down. Adapt to dynamic project and delivery demand without the lag of hiring.
Fractional, or full departments.
Two clean entry points. Augment what you have, or add experienced department leaders on a part-time basis to guide the day to day.
For established teams
Add capacity to an existing department.
For businesses that already have internal delivery capability across varied departments, DaaS is a fast option to add capacity to an existing department with its own delivery processes.
You keep oversight. We slot into the rhythm you already run.
Engagement
Capacity+
- Slots into existing delivery cadence and tooling
- Specialist skills on demand: engineering, performance, creative
- Ramps in days, not weeks
For partial departments
Experienced leaders, fractional.
For businesses with a partial department on a tight budget, this is the way to access experienced department leaders on a part-time basis to guide and direct internal day to day processes.
By building in pods that sit underneath the department leader, you maintain complete oversight over the full 12 month transformation.
Pod design
3-tier
- Leadership Partner — commercial, technical or growth strategy
- Project or Account Partner — execution plan and light-touch oversight
- Deployment Partner — assets, systems, and the requirements to execute
05 / Flexibility
Scale up and down to meet your needs.
You can leverage a department in a number of ways. Your contracted internal department, and the services they perform, are calibrated to meet the objectives set during Discovery.
You might need full-time effort for a period, a short cycle, or both. You might need niche marketing or technology skill sets, or simply a few extra hands to get the department up and running faster. Whatever the shape, your resources operate as an internal extension of your own departments.
Speed, quality, agility.
No business has every skill set for every project. DaaS exists so you can quickly access leadership and specialist skills, scale capacity to meet dynamic demand, and keep budgets in check.
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Flexibility and quick response.
Build dedicated departments around specific skills, products, strategies, outcomes, and technologies for critical projects or deadlines.
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Lower overhead for finite or seasonal work.
Cuts the cost of administrative functions tied to payroll, benefits, and unemployment concerns when work is finite or seasonal.
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Saves time.
Department growth and augmentation help you hire within days, not weeks or months.
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Reduces the training and development bottleneck.
Compresses the time it takes for a new or existing department to deliver real ROI.
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Frees up internal resources.
Removes the resource drag typically caused by the hiring and recruitment process.
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De-risks new hires.
Minimises the risk of new hires not meeting the expectations and requirements the business actually needs.
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Agile, responsive decisions.
Adapt the shape of internal departments without the friction of hiring and firing as market conditions move.
07 / Clients
We work with pioneers, risk-takers, and disruptors.
A broad spectrum of industries and established businesses, taking on their next great marketing and technical challenges.
Together with our clients we conceive and build the next generation of disruptive businesses and services. We execute on products and services that are adaptive, flexible, and able to evolve to meet your company roadmap. We help customers with underperforming objectives reinvigorate and transform their digital delivery, capacity, and capability to local or international markets.
We build long-term, non-transactional, partnership-centric relationships. Many of our clients are now market leaders. Having blazed a trail in their markets, they return to our department leadership for advice, opinion, and guidance. We are always ready to assist on the next iteration and growth cycle, whether it's a technology or marketing roadmap, new systems, or market expansion.
Individual freedom and accountability sit at the core of our departments. We attract the best talent by giving them the freedom to be creative and flexible in their working environment. We hire engineers, architects, performance marketing specialists, creative specialists, product, project, and account managers, and top-tier leadership with a track record of delivery from kick-off to completion.
08 / Next step
Build a department
Build a department
on your terms.
A 30 minute call. No lock-in. We map the gap between where your delivery capability is today and where the next 12 months need it to be.