Working directly to the CIO and CEO, this project involved the replacement of all company systems at this manufacturer of specialised mining and lighting equipment. The systems under implementation covered all the office related business functions of MRPII / ERP integrated to flexible manufacturing cells (FMS) with automatic guided vehicles running under the control of...
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Mobile Wallet Strategy
Apple Pay, Samsung Pay, Alipay are about to enter the Swiss market, and two existing local mobile wallet solutions are competing for market share. A credit card company asked what strategy and which payment solution should be followed to ensure a) getting overall growth, b) betting on the right/ winning technology/ solution and c) investing...
Helping you to manage your Business Partners, Customers, and Clients.
I received a call from a Senior Project Manager asking if I could help? They were spending their day’s firefighting issues. Taking one step forward and two steps back. The firefighting was stopping them from delivering their job which was to deliver a digital printing capability to the Client. The Client wasn’t happy with the...
Create an innovation strtaegy and action plan for a global manufacturing client to drive growth
Need to innovate in order to address the client challenges: o Maintain market leading position and avoid commoditisation of product in a strong competitive market o Deal with competitive threat of competitors who are closing the quality gap o How to maintain pricing levels o Build on innovative heritage (R&D process) to create process around...
Escaping from Legacy Systems
A major UK Financial Services company had undertaken an in-depth study into its legacy systems. The estate had grown significantly as a result of acquisitions and mergers and had become costly from both an operational and administrative perspective. A decision was made to outsource over 2.8m closed book policies to a third party administration system...
Implementing ‘Follow-the-Sun’ Global Service Desk
All regions within Cape operate it’s localised IT helpdesk system. It was important to ensure that we have a single system that everyone could rely on, measure the customer response and track the tickets that was logged globally. More importantly, we wanted to implement a global system (people, process and IT system) without additional cost...
Effect the successful divestiture of multiple business and transform the remaining IT organisation
The large data centre of a Central American Bank situated in Mexico housed the processing for the company’s businesses in Mexico, Panama, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Paraguay, Costa Rica, El Salvador and Uruguay. A decision was taken by the executive management to sell the businesses in all countries other than Mexico. The businesses were sold to...
Reducing road traffic accidents and deaths for a global logistics provider
The client operates around 100,000 vehicles as part of its global logistics service. They estimated around 20 deaths per year are caused by driver inattention (including tiredness) and that each death has a direct cost of around $5m USD, putting aside the emotional impact on the families of those involved. In addition to deaths, there...
Interim Head of Technology for a new company acquiring an existing business
The client, Alizeti Consortium (aka Group, Capital), had undertaken to acquire the digital assets of The Tote, the horse racing betting business originally founded by Winston Churchill in 1928. Driven by a desire for change in the industry they had not performed technical due diligence on the assets and team they were acquiring, they just...
NOT JUST TALK: Making significant and lasting behavioural improvement in a gov’t IT department.
A newly formed branch of the largest IT department in the State Government asked me to facilitate an off-site for the entire branch. We were to discuss strategic planning and prioritisation of activities in the next six-month period. However many of the personnel had come from other state government departments and brought with them the...
