Colin Tivendale
Twenty-five years building and running technology delivery and consulting businesses from Switzerland - the relationships behind every alba.swiss engagement.
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The delivery engine behindthe most critical programsin global business.
alba.swiss stands beside a small circle of CIOs and CISOs through their technology programs - from the day the commitment is made to the day the business owns the result.
We work with a curated
circle of clients.
Not because
we can’t scale - because
trust doesn’t.
alba.swiss is built like a private members’ club, not a consultancy. Relationships that span decades and outlast job titles. No bench waiting to be sold. No case studies with your name on them. We publish little, we promote nothing - the people we work with are the only marketing we run.
One club, four ways in - everyone here because someone vouched for them. Including us.
Everyone is watching what you do next.
Shareholders. Analysts. The media. The board. For a listed company, every commitment is public and every result is measured. For a well-funded challenger going places, the investors and the growth plan watch just as hard. Sooner or later the CEO makes a bold commitment - and once made, it has to be delivered.
Programs aren’t delivered
on slides or in theory.They’re delivered by people who show up.
The outcome becomes a program. It lands on your desk.
The CEO commits - save a billion, deliver the AI journey, be secure against every threat. A strategy firm shapes the blueprint. The executive team is told to make it real. And it lands where it always lands: on the CIO’s - or the CISO’s - desk.
The promisebold, public, binding
The blueprint"you need a program"
The mandate"deliver it"
CIO / CISOmake it work. deliver the result
The program takes shapeThe vendor landscape fragmentsWe’re the glue that holds it togetherThe program
takes shape. The vendor landscape fragments. We’re the glue that holds it together
The strategy firms frame it. Another firm says they can build it - a System Integrator, a Vendor - but lacks the time, the team or the skills to carry it alone. Between them sits the layer where programs are won or lost - your people, working alongside ours. That space is where alba.swiss lives - starting wherever the program needs us. Often that’s program leadership at your side, strengthening how the program runs. Just as often the engagement starts smaller: one capability, quietly injected.
The clientCIO/CISOowns the outcome
The strategy firmsshape the program - the blueprint, not the build
Gap in translationInternalyour best people, brought on the journey
Gap in executionSystem Integrators / Vendorsthe build at scale - the end destination
Gap in alignmentalba.swiss
Program leadership at your side, strengthening how the program runs.
alba.swissCapabilities, injected - beside your team
- 01Program-specific know-how and niche skills
- 02Vendors and boutiques, consolidated
- 03Globally dispersed presence, as required
- 04Senior expertise and advisory
The clientCIO/CISOowns the outcome
The strategy firmsshape the program - the blueprint,
not the build
Gap in translationnot the build
Internalyour best people, brought on the journey
Gap in executionSystem Integrators / Vendorsthe build at scale - the end destination
Gap in alignmentalba.swiss
Program leadership at your side, strengthening how the program runs.
alba.swissCapabilities, injected - beside your team
- 01Program-specific know-how and niche skills
- 02Vendors and boutiques, consolidated
- 03Globally dispersed presence, as required
- 04Senior expertise and advisory
We stay through hypercare - until the business owns it.
It can be a lonely seat. Your people are stretched; your vendors are selling. We’re the backup at your side - independent, experienced, on demand, for exactly as long as you need us.
Six ways in.One standard of delivery.
Every engagement is bespoke, but they arrive through six doors - usually on technology-driven change programs with a global footprint.
- Tech Strategy & Solutions
Strategy that survives contact with delivery - advice for the hardest calls of a global program.
- Global Program Management
We ensure programs run as one - leadership, cadence and delivery under a single accountability.
- M&A & PE Technology Advisory
Acquisition strategy and portfolio value creation - carve-outs and integrations are our specialty.
- Cybersecurity & Resilience
Security strategy and resilience built by people who have sat in the CISO seat - and answered for it.
- Digital Transformation
Operating models, processes and platforms transformed end to end - from ambition to adoption.
- SAP & Core Platform Programs
ECC to S/4HANA, RISE, and the platforms your business runs on - leadership through the deadline wave.
What we’ll put our name to
Someone you trust recommended us.
It’s as simple as that - and what follows is why.
Every client we have ever worked
with has come back.
From first conversation to a viable answer in 72 hours.
Delivered into more than 100 countries.
You pay for the delivery -
not the letterhead.
We don’t publish much. These, we will.
"Besides being excellent
at what you do,
you’re just
good people - honest
and transparent.”
people talk
A small firm.
A very large room.
Two names on the door - and behind them, one of the deepest delivery networks in the business.
Alessio Aldini
The engine room of the network - bringing the right capability to the right program, and looking after every consultant like a member.
Every name in the room was a
decision. 100+ CIOs, CISOs, Program Directors and C-level decision-makers in formal and informal exchange - experience sharing, workshops and mentorship on what's coming next in technology leadership.
Senior strategic advisors guide us and open their networks when we assemble teams. Behind them, 500+ vetted consultants and specialist firms - the fuel of the delivery engine, every one proven on real engagements.
Members, not commodities
When a CIO or CISO asks who stands
behind an engagement, the answer
is simple: members of the same club
you just joined.
People treated as members deliver like owners. People treated as commodities deliver like commodities.
Your program stays yours - we don't claim the outcome, and we won't pretend to. For our part, you make one call.
We run the framework, maintain the evidence, and stand behind the structure.
We run the model we recommend
We don't just design lean, global delivery structures -
we live inside one.High-calibre delivery leadership, housed in
Switzerland.The machinery - operations, finance and legal -
runs nearshore.
The same architecture we build for clients runs
this firm. A lean structure carries lean costs -
and that’s why our pricing lands where it does.
It isn’t a discount. It’s a structure. When we
propose it for your program, we’re speaking from
inside the model, not from a slide.
Everyone says pick two.
Price, quality, speed.
We are how you get all three.
How this firm behaves
- No bench, no conflict
Every team is built for the engagement. We never sell you people we happen to have idle - because we don't have any.
- A curated client list
Deliberately short. Every client gets the names on the door, not an account layer.
- Discretion as standard
We publish little and promote nothing. Your program stays your story - references are given in person, never printed.
- We stay until it works
Through the build, through hypercare, past the point where others send the closing invoice. Done means owned by your business.
- Your time, respected
We take what we need from you quickly, then get out of your diary - working with your team, your vendors and your partners to carry the load.
- Not a sales organisation
No internal KPIs, no cross-sell targets. We don't make your decisions - we bring you to the point of an informed one, usually between two strong options. The call stays yours.
Our values
Integrity Led
We do the right things right - trust is the asset everything else stands on.
Our values
Integrity Led
We do the right things right - trust is the asset everything else stands on.
Answerable
Accountable for everyone we bring with us - always at the end of the phone, always paying attention.
Relationship Driven
Relationships measured in decades, not engagements.
Service Oriented
Client first, always - the standard a members’ club is held to.
Judged on Delivery
Measured on delivery - on time, in budget, owned by the business.
Global Sustainability
Global reach, run responsibly - lean, low-footprint, built to last.
If it’s your desk it landed on, ask around - someone you trust already knows us.
Nearly every client arrived the same way: a name passed across a table by someone they trust. We rarely call cold - and we like it that way. When our name comes back, start the conversation.