Pre acquisition due diligence and post acquisition integration of Interactive Data into Intercontinental Exchange
STAR Stories Indi
Head of HR (HR Director level)
To integrate 3 previously acquired companies in Italy, Russia and Sri Lanka for form a new software business unit in the London Stock Exchange Group, to reduce cost, increase revenue and profit and improve customer service.
A working Oracle Retail test environment delivered on AWS for < 10% of cost and available in 33% of the time quoted by the software vendor.
The client, a duty free retailer with locations throughout North and Latin America, had been using an older version of Oracle Retail on premise for a number of years. They are already using AWS as chosen cloud provider for other areas of the business. They wanted to have a sandbox of the latest v16 to...
DEVELOPMENT OF MARKET EXPANSION
An engineering-based company, which supplied engineering solutions into B2B sectors. Sales revenue from the international market was declining, and the company had an ambitious growth plan, however no clear vision/idea as to where this growth was going to be achieved from. Rakesh Shah (RVR Management) was recruited to develop a detailed plan and to identify...
From IT Director to Group CTO through Enterprise Architecture
The sponsoring client was an IT director, newly anointed as the innovation director in a rapidly-growing SME – in fact, the next growth spurt is liable to make them a ‘large’ enterprise. The company had recently embarked on large-scale technology transformation, including replacing their core application and underlying infrastructure. Now that the big and obvious...
Developing KPI dashboards saved time for charity to monitor social media performance.
The ‘yesHEis’ app is operated by global charity Christian Vision (CV) to help Christians share their faith online. With 3 million users worldwide, its operation by CV teams and partners is supported by a substantial technology infrastructure and sophisticated use of social media and Customer Relationship Management platforms.
Create the world’s first Web-enabled Supply Chain
Nortel, a global telecommunications company at the time, like others in their industry, had a supply chain that ran into the thousands (3500+). At the time of the undertaking, it was a period of explosive growth in the industry that was also being compromised by unevenness in each telecom company’s supply chain partners’ ability to...
Procure and Implement a Learning Management System
A major crown corporation in Canada was looking to procure and implement a Learning Management System. The project was positioned as an “IT project” – gather the requirements, procure a product through an RFP, install it and migrate the data from the existing system. They hired me to lead both the IT and business-side teams....
Creating an Augmented Reality Wow-factor for BT
BT approached InnovationScouts.tech looking for help in discovering outstanding British startups and technology innovators to help create a wow-factor consumer experience, with a focus on Augmented Reality (AR).
Social learning, developing blended learning expertise and digital learning vendor selection
U4 is a provider of high-quality research, information, and learning opportunities to help development practitioners more effectively support anti-corruption efforts in the developing world. Existing training courses were either via distance learning supplemented with virtual classroom sessions and video clips, or in-country face to face workshops. U4’s vision for blended learning aims to increase the...
