Ilse Baxter is a Director at CatalytIQ (Pty) Ltd. She possess expertise in management consulting, business process improvement, business analysis, business strategy, business transformation and 23 more skills. Colleagues describe her as "I’ve worked closely with Ilse for several years while she helped deliver the INN8 Investment Platform. I can confidently say that if it weren’t for her methodical tenacity, exceptional process thinking and most of all her empathy towards what different teams want and need, we wouldn’t have succeeded in the way that we have. Those who are lucky enough to work with her in future will benefit from her deep knowledge of complex tech deliveries and her ability to mobilise teams to deliver great business results. Thanks for your expertise and your time with us Ilse. Good luck on all your future endeavours. G" and "Ilse Baxter joined our team as Programme Director when we were in the middle of a multi-year, extra-large technology and business investment, we were pre-product market launch and amidst a number of other parallel organization-wide priorities that were competing for attention. It was a true baptism by fire, but that is what Ilse thrives on, calming the chaos and bringing order and sensible action.
I got the sense that Ilse and her team only used a small selection of their many skills, but those that particularly impressed me and added immense value to our organization were:
- Highly effective programme management and delivery across a complex set of often fuzzy problems, each requiring substantial investment in time and effort to get ‘delivery’, ‘going alongside’ teams and helping them see the wood from the trees, and do their best work, identifying the weak links in the chain and optimizing for effective teams
- Insightful observation and playback at senior level of clearly articulated risks and dependencies and realistic risk-adjusted recommendations on paths of actions, with credible evidence to back up the courses of action
- An ability to see the interconnectedness of issues so as to catch them (or at least prepare as best as possible) so that negative impacts are minimized and opportunities are taken as swiftly as pragmatically possible
- An ability to connect with key senior people and get them to align around the biggest bonfires so that their collective effectiveness is unlocked to solve difficult problems and provide clarity and direction to teams
- Incredibly detailed capacity forecasting and planning methodology that included multiple areas across our business in a constantly changing environment
I would gladly work with Ilse and her highly competent team again."
Listed skills include Management Consulting, Business Process Improvement, Business Analysis, Business Strategy, and 24 others.
