STAR Stories Indi

Developing a Sourcing Strategy for Reverse Logistics to improve relationships, commercial performance and service levels

A Supply Chain faced a number of issues with its Reverse Logistics including: – Poor relationships with its suppliers – Poor financial performance – Poor relationships with Sales and Service – A large number of complaints related to the repair services provided – Service levels below its key competitors

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Aftermarket Services supplier management Business Strategy Product and supplier selection (RFP) systems thinking
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Improved Decision-Making through Business Capabilities

An IT Director needed to encourage the senior and executive leadership groups to consider the whole of the business when making decisions. The organisation had been established with clear silos and over the years those divisions had deepened to the point that decisions taken from one narrow perspective were actively detrimental to other areas of...

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Business Capability Modelling Enterprise and Business Architecture Workshop facilitation
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Implement parliamentary imperative with the enthusiastic support of staff

Client was a high profile ALB (Arms Length Body), tasked with responding to Freedom of Information by publishing information proactively instead of waiting for requests. Staff were used to analysing into custom reports provided to ministers and senior staff of major stakeholders to the ALB.

Skills:

#projects #agile agile delivery Behavioural Change Benefits Management business architecture business analyst
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Rework Outsourced Contract for Cost, Quality and Innovation improvements

The Organisation had got into a long term IT Outsourcing Contract with a Tier I service Provider to manage all of its IT Services. The contract * Included a year-on-year increase in payment for inflation * Did not include any potential benefits due to efficiencies * Technology upgrades not included * Included Infrastructure, Applications &...

Skills:

Right-sourcing and Outsourcing Benefits Management IT Cost Transparency IT Strategic Planning
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Improve Relationships, Confidence & Value Delivered Across the Business

Internal communication among middle-managers in a key department of the Regional Government Office is ineffective, with low commitment from teams to sharing information and collaborating. This is also the case between Top Management with the rest of the organization. People feel excluded from important deliberations; their knowledge and capacities are ignored, they need to express...

Skills:

facilitation empathy building service management Collaborative Intelligence collaboration process improvement
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Optimising Procurement’s Target Operating Model

Following the announcement of a proposed merger of 2 major mobile network operators in Germany, a Post-Merger Integration team was formed. The challenges faced were: – Fundamental differences in the way that products were purchased – Teams & strategy needed to be integrated & an approach aligned with corporate goals – A desire to realise...

Skills:

Behavioural Change Business Strategy systems thinking Post Merger Integrations Post-Merger Integration facilitation
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National Health IT Programme – Achieving excellence in delivering benefits in a health and social care setting

The IT Division of a national health provider aimed to be an international leader in the delivery of recognised benefits from health informatics. However, it failed to get Treasury approval of its business case to provide nearly three million patients’ key health information (medicines, allergies) to Urgent Care units across the country.

Skills:

Benefits Management Business Cases digital transformation government
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Digital Operations Transformation Lead

CTO needed an Operating Model to help adapt to Devops and Agile ways of working. The IT Operations Dept experienced daily outages with high priority incidents taking too long to be resolved (MTTR over 20hrs) Lack of business engagement etc.

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IT Service Management & Design digital strategy digital transformation service delivery service desk
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A Social Value report that changed the law

My client, Phoenix Futures’ National Specialist Family Service (NSFS), had noticed that referrals into the service had completely stopped, and they didn’t know why. NSFS works with parents who are addicted to substances, but who face having their children taken away because their addiction means they can’t take care of the children. They need help...

Skills:

stakeholder management Business & Operational Analysis uk legal documentation
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