Q5 expands Middle East presence with new office in Oman

UK consultancy Q5 has stated ‘Salam Alaikum’ to Oman, launching a brand new workplace in Muscat. The hub will help private and non-private sector purchasers amid the nation’s Oman 2040 transformation.

Based in 2009, Q5 is a consulting agency which helps purchasers develop technique, and ship organisational change. The agency has greater than 300 specialists stationed throughout workplaces in London, Leeds, Cardiff, Sydney, Melbourne, Hong Kong, Houston, and New York.

As financial transformation efforts throughout the Center East proceed at tempo, Q5 has opted to develop its presence within the area. Q5 has additionally operated within the Center East nations since 2017, through an workplace in Saudi Arabia’s capital, Riyadh. From there, the agency has labored with purchasers seeking to execute Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s Imaginative and prescient 2030 plans. On the identical time, it has been in a position to work throughout the GCC area – giving the agency a wealth of expertise in terms of supporting the area’s financial diversification drives.

Now, because it seems to place that experience to work throughout extra of the area, it has launched a brand new workplace in Oman. The locale in Muscat opens its doorways because the nation pushes forward with its personal Oman 2040 plans – aiming to transition the financial system away from its historic oil dependency.

The Oman 2040 plan has earmarked 5 sectors which have excessive progress potential and financial returns: agriculture and fisheries, manufacturing, logistics and transport, vitality and mining, and tourism. Wanting forward, these are areas Q5 believes it’s effectively positioned to assist with from its workplace positioned within the Qurum space of Muscat – which opened its doorways in mid-2023.

Talking on the agency’s entry into Oman, Phoebe Dunn, managing director for Q5 within the Center East, stated, “We deliver world finest apply, a observe document of success within the GCC area, and a partnership strategy with native supply groups so to take all of your technique off the web page and ship at tempo. As transformation and alter specialists, we’re investing right here so we can assist shopper organisations on this subsequent part of transition, particularly when issues get powerful.”

The agency works throughout a variety of sectors and industries, together with: infrastructure; monetary companies; authorities and well being; retail; tradition and heritage; media and know-how; and non-profits. These are all important areas for any nation seeking to overhaul its financial infrastructure, enhance its non-public sector, and strengthen civil society within the course of. To that finish, Q5 helps purchasers in 4 key areas: with technique implementation; organisation design; functionality constructing; and programs design and methods of working.

Contemplating what the agency can ship in Oman, Salim Al-Wahaibi, a director at Q5’s new workplace, added, “Like so many Omanis, I’m dedicated to creating our 2040 imaginative and prescient a actuality. And by creating Q5 Companions as an Oman firm, we need to make a concrete distinction to Oman’s nationwide ambition.”