Manager, Personal Assistant, and Italian Translator. She holds many responsibilities within the consultancy, including all marketing endeavours, providing Albert with assistance, and translating English and Italian as required. Together, these three individuals make a formidable team, boasting a diverse array of strengths that, combined, empower Optimus Navis to thrive. While Optimus Navis operates as a well-oiled ship, the journey has not always been easy. Founder Albert McIlroy told us: “Managing a team and promoting teamwork is not straightforward. There is no set approach; for me, the team is a dynamic, changing element of the consultancy. It can also be compounded by many factors, such as varying levels of language understanding and translation skills, level of technical understanding, or not understanding the explanations and geographical influences.” As CEO and Project Director, Albert aims to mitigate these potential challenges by working towards four types of culture types, as identified by Robert E. Quinn and Kim S. Cameron in 1993: hierarchy, clan, adhocracy, and market. These cultures are a quintessential aspect of Optimus Navis’ overall organisational management, providing both Albert and his team with a clear, actionable structure that eliminates friction and inefficiency across the consultancy. As a controlling orientation, Albert believes that “hierarchy culture” is fundamental to any consultancy’s success. This culture type reflects the understanding that successful leaders are viewed as organisers, coordinators, and monitors. By embodying this approach, Albert ensures that the team does not view upper management as a negative and instead embraces discussions and shares concerns and information so that, collectively, the team can find the best way forward—together. Across Optimus Navis, Albert emphasises the “clan culture” within the team, which promotes teamwork, extended family, mentoring, and loyalty. Grounded in human development and participation, this collaborative culture orientation allows Albert to foster a friendly working environment within Optimus Navis, instilling high morale to facilitate consensus and feedback among employees, in turn leading to heightened levels of participation and loyalty. The creative orientation of “adhocracy culture” emphasises innovativeness, vision, and new resources, suggesting that successful leaders are viewed as innovators, entrepreneurs, and visionaries. This culture encourages the team to think of themselves as part of a creative and dynamic industry, promoting individual initiative and empowering employees to bring their ideas to the group for discussion so that the team can make smart, informed decisions on how to proceed. Finally, “market culture” is a competing orientation and defines success in terms of market share and penetration. Albert utilises this culture approach to ensure that the team remain results-oriented— taking the greatest care to study situations, being aware of their own professional and personal limits, understanding and controlling production schedules, providing reports and statuses in a timely manner, and achieving measurable goals and targets. “The ultimate goal is to complete our work and the project at the highest level possible,” he explained. By taking this four-pronged approach, the consultancy has been successful in building a cohesive, well-rounded team, each individual empowered to exceed expectations and achieve excellence. The team is driven to succeed, continually educating themselves with emerging technologies and trends to ensure that Optimus Navis remains aligned with industry evolution. Optimus Navis has achieved an excellent reputation as technical consultants through many hours dedicated to researching, exploring, and implementing what is in the realm of reality—transforming design concepts into complete, working entities. Staying ahead of industry advancement has enabled Optimus Navis to witness year-onyear growth in the new build superyacht industry. This growth has been driven by a number of factors, including a rising sense of adventure across the industry that has led superyacht owners to explore more remote areas. As a result, an increasing volume of superyachts are now being customised with specific systems and equipment designed for exploratory purposes. Alongside this, there have also been incredible advancements in new eco-friendly sustainability technologies. The industry has seen developments towards alternative fuel propulsion and power generation systems, with increased efficiencies fuelled by the ideology of reducing undesirable effects on the environment. These advancements promise significant transformation across the superyacht industry, opening the door to countless opportunities for Optimus Navis to explore. Looking to the future, Optimus Navis is focused on advancement. The remainder of 2025 appears promising to the consultancy as it wraps up early discussions for new projects, which are set to be finalised by the beginning of 2026. Alongside the new additions to its portfolio, Optimus Navis will be setting its sights on new horizons, with the aim to expand its geographical area into Northern Europe, Italy, and Turkey. Beyond that, the Optimus Navis will continue to set new standards of service and quality across the wider superyacht industry, demonstrating its rightful recognition as the UK and Europe’s Best Superyacht Technical Consultancy 2025. Contact: Albert McIlroy Company: Optimus Navis Limited Web Address: www.optimusnavis.com
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