I was drafted in as an Interim GM to a charity that manages the world’s oldest mechanised paper mill with a visitor centre where they provide educational programs. The charity turned out to be £2.6M in debt with the banks chasing them as well as having a CVA to contend with. They were approximately three...
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Leading Cross-Functional Transformation Initiatives to Unlock $14M in Business Value
An FMCG organisation managing a portfolio of more than 15 brands produced across three manufacturing plants was facing increasing pressure on marketing investment and operational efficiency. The complexity of the portfolio and multiple parallel initiatives meant resources were spread across numerous projects, leaving insufficient funds to adequately support key brands with ATL and BTL investment....
Revitalising Brand Vision and Strategy to Accelerate Regional Growth
A multinational organisation operating across several European markets faced declining brand clarity and inconsistent strategic direction across regional teams. Following organisational changes, the leadership team recognised that the existing brand vision no longer aligned with evolving market dynamics and growth priorities. Regional teams were working with fragmented positioning, limiting their ability to execute a cohesive...
Tracking bespoke product pallets helps with contract renegotiation
The logistics function of a large manufacturer was seeing a drop in the return of bespoke-made pallets for a particular global client. These pallets were expensive to produce and the agreement with the client was that after the products had been delivered, the pallets were sent back to the manufacturer immediately so they could be...
National energy supplier: Delivered 35 x FTEs with one RPA robot
This national energy supplier had an issue managing customer debt. Individual customer debt could grow either through customer action or through billing systems not being reliably updated with smart meter data. A large team was manually investigating any suspected affected accounts, they had a backlog of thousands of accounts for review at any point in...
Data Analytics
The bank was assessing possibly security threats and raising incident tickets for threat assessment and allocating resources to remediate potential vulnerabilities and any potential cyber attacks. All processes relating to keep the bank safe from external and internal threats were manual. The bank was looking to reduce time from when the threats were identified to...
Creating Flow at Waters Corporation
Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT), a global leader in analytical instruments & software with annual revenues of $2.5B, has pioneered chromatography, mass spectrometry, and thermal analysis innovations serving the life, materials, food, health sciences for over 60 years. Employing over 7,800 worldwide, operating directly in over 35 countries, it has 14 manufacturing facilities and products available in...
Setting up data foundations to enable a global leader in solar power generation to scale
Our client (let’s dub them SolarCo) builds and operates utility-scale solar power farms around the world. They are rapidly scaling-up to help meet the rising demand for reliable electricity while supporting the global energy transition to net zero.
Transforming the data platform for a leading travel services company
These days, almost all large, global businesses outsource their travel arrangements to a travel management company. Our client — let’s dub them TravelCo — is a world leader in this space. In an industry that continues to face many challenges, including overcoming a pandemic, and with demanding business travel customers to serve, TravelCo sees digital...
IoT Solutions for Energy Efficient Buildings
The client, a commercial real estate services company, was responsible for overseeing the leasing & operations of several large multi floored commercial building spaces spread across cities and zones. The client had expressed concerns about several issues in managing these geographically spread locations and more specifically on rising energy costs and also the need to...
