Client’s strategy was to transform from a manufacturer of roofing materials to a provider of roofing solutions and services. Therefore, the client had to explore new customer segments, channels and routes to market.
Building Credibility through IT Strategy
CIO, a few months into the job at a financial services company, needed to demonstrate that the technology strategy supported the business outcomes. He desired a more significant influence on the decisions made within business units, and to show the value of building technology foundations to support the whole enterprise. His team was struggling to...
Save 10,000 hours by leveraging Virtual Engineer Automation
Run-The-Bank division was struggling to satisfy automation requirements of their infrastructure and unable to meet Availability & other SLAs
Testing the potential for a new spirit product that’s worth more than 1k USD per bottle
My client, a whisky maker, has been in the challenging position to break through in East Asia – a market that is traditionally dominated by Cognac. While Cognac has been advertised for decades and is seen as an established business gift which people can attach a clear symbolic and monetary value to, the value and...
Helping a global FMCG brand to innovate in the hair care and hair styling category
A global FMCG company that is more known for quick adaptation than for innovating its own products wanted to up their game with new hair care & styling products to disrupt the market with innovative new product and service ideas. We needed to understand, how to harness emergent tech and cultural shifts in beauty with...
Increased business benefits and credibility for an API platform by establishing documentation standards
Client had implemented a API platform and has a captive SI supplier to build and deliver APIs but they were suffering from build quality issues and not able to effectively reuse APIs built. API platform product owner needed a documented and repeatable process to commission and design APIs so they met business needs, best practices...
Guiding Investments in Change through Business Architecture
The Head of Digital Transformation for a global business line needed to plan his investment portfolio with certainty that it would deliver on the board’s strategy. On the one hand, he had a white paper that had been commissioned from one of the Big4 and a flashy marketing deck that had been used for internal...
Uplifting Architecture Capability and Culture at a Payments Solution Provider
A UK-based global Payments Solution provider operated disparate Enterprise, Solution and Product Architecture teams and lacked experienced Architecture Leadership to drive cohesion and maximise value from its collection of permanent and contract architects. Solution Architects were primarily resource-managed and given little professional freedom and accountability to do their jobs. There was also no systematic sharing...
Setting the Data Strategy and Target Architecture for a Specialist Life Insurer
A specialist Life Insurance provider had invested heavily in a SAS platform to support its actuarial and financial data processes and to facilitate full compliance with Solvency II. The insurer was keen to understand the right future path for this platform and for its Data and Analytics capabilities as a whole, supporting regulatory compliance alongside...
Circa 70% of the car insurance customers to the UKs biggest price comparison site now have more accurate premiums.
A colleague was moaning one day about the cost of his car insurance. I asked for his details, replicated his answers and started playing with his answers to see what I could do. I asked him about his 15K annual mileage. He was adamant this was correct as he was about his car purchase date....
