A Chat with Lyndon Docherty, Founding Partner and Chief Executive at HiveMind Network

HiveMind is where entrepreneurial specialists who share a set of values and behaviours come together to support enterprises in the design and delivery of technology enabled change. We focus on both the personal fulfilment of those involved, along with business results achieved, providing insight and advisory services, consulting, and program and project delivery assistance. We work with many of the world’s leading enterprises, including many of the FTSE 250 and a number of the FTSE 50.

For our enterprise clients, we bring together highly skilled and experienced professionals from multiple industry sectors who have a range of technological and people management skills. Our approach is to focus on overall business outcomes so we’re not siloed around specific disciplines and we’re flexible to clients’ needs. With our focus on values, behaviours and flexibility, we avoid unnecessary blockers to getting work done, making our approach frictionless, faster and lower cost than alternatives.

Independent consultants and freelancers are welcome to join HiveMind’s delivery network. Each will benefit from the support of our wider team and have the opportunity to work alongside other highly accomplished professionals with the breadth, depth, geographic reach and risk profile normally only available with a very large business; all while maintaining the flexibility and control of running their own small business.
 
 

 

What do you think makes this company unique?

 
For our network of experts, we’re unique because of how and why we do things. We distinguish ourselves from others in our space because we enable our delivery experts to be part of something with significant scale and purpose, whilst retaining everything they love about being an independent entrepreneur. Also, we treat them as customers, equal to the clients for which we deliver services.

For corporate clients, we’re unique because we provide unparalleled access to many of the world’s most accomplished and experienced professionals, working together seamlessly across disciplines, whilst remaining focused on business outcomes. Working with an on-demand model, we’re also faster to sense and respond to change and without the typical overheads of a traditional business model, operating under a single P&L. We’re also a lower cost than our closest alternatives, those being the big 4 consulting firms.
 

 

How has the company evolved over the last couple of years?

 
Over the last couple of years we’ve moved from concentrating on building an operating model and infrastructure to enable responsible growth and scaling, to executing on our plans and growing our client base and delivery expert capabilities. We’ve been working very successfully with many clients for over 8 years already, but we were able to treble in size last year from the prior year and we’re on track for significant growth again this year.

Our senior leadership team is also growing and maturing in line with what we’re hearing from clients and market intelligence.
 

What can we hope to see from HiveMind in the future?

 
We’re now focused on continuously improving our colleague and client experiences to better deliver on our promise; helping those that care, to deliver change that matters. Above all, we’re focused on enabling far more business and technology professionals to have better days; shedding the dreaded ‘Bad Sunday’ feeling for as many as possible. Consultants interested in finding out more should visit www.hivemindnetwork.com