The client (Sellafield Ltd) is a multi-billion turnover multi-site organisation, with one of the most complex civil engineering operations in Europe. Because of its complexity, staff have broken the work down into “projects”, specific pieces of work, some falling into the category of megaprojects (>$1billion over 20 years), which they can do and report on...
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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...
T Shaped individual covers integration and data domains to help rescue project
A regulatory project for an Automotive client had its delivery in jeopardy when the Data architect and Integration architects had a major conflict amongst themselves and had to be removed from the project so as to not risk causing further disruption. The project was already in full flight and using a Agile methodology.
Optimise Procurement efficiency and effectiveness
Local authority client performed procurement using traditional process of creating tenders and emailing suppliers or publishing to OJEU. An opportunity arose to use the new at the time procurement portal Digital Marketplace.
Recovering and resetting project scope and timelines
A large FTSE 250 engineering company had a project which was 4 months behind in delivery schedule and suffered from poor scope definition. It was a critical dependency to a large Airport terminal refurbishment programme with a number of different organisations providing different functions and expertise. Main contractor required the project to be brought under...
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...
Risk based approach to managing cyber security
* The client was using multiple generation of technologies in his environment. * The client was a name to reckon with in the industry and therefore any breach would hit the headlines and the business loss and the reputation damage would be extensive. * The IT team were constantly firefighting and focused on upgrading and...
Producing rich and comprehensive documentation saves time in later project stages
DVLA mandated all Vehicle manufacturers to submit built vehicle first time Registration cases in real time following WLTP legislation by April 2019, JLR 6 months behind on the project. Two seperate set of systems currently process Jaguar and Land Rover vehicles with significant differences in data.
Project Recovery Turns Potential £500k Loss into a Project Extension
Due to their dissatisfaction with our team’s delivery to-date, a Tier 1 Financial Services customer was threatening to cancel, with prejudice, our multi-million-pound call-off consultancy contract.
