STAR Stories Indi

Product Strategy and Organisational restructuring to regain momentum in a competitive market

Our client is an established PayTV vendor with over a decade of deploying middleware product solutions. Facing a more competitive market (customer in-house development, introduction of Android TV, erosion of product royalties) with the introduction and customer environments requiring much shorter product development cycle times, our client was struggling to grow its business and felt...

Skills:

Productisation Product Lifecycle Management Business Change Management & Communication Professional Services change management
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Driving new business through successful proof of concept (POC) deployment in a challenging political environment

Our client is a company with a unique, next generation model based autonomous operations frameworkdeploying their product into key strategic customers. Our client has a key strategic engagement with a tier 1 telecommunications company where an important POC was required to open further opportunities in deploying their platform as part of a major transformation initiative.

Skills:

program management Programme Planning Technology Strategy stakeholder management Technical Consultancy training
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Enterprise failing a security audit sought a way to be “always audit-ready”

In 2016, auditors at a €4bn enterprise found the organization fell short of standards and requirements, lacking consistency across its security program, with incomplete out-of-date polices, lack of documented processes, and poor employee engagement. Gaps in process and urgent threats were addressed sporadically with a triage mentality – “just make the problem go away as...

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First-time CISO had to become “executive” fast

The higher Jerry rose in the department, finally reaching Director of IT, the more strain he felt on his marriage, his relationship with his team, and his own health. In the halls he exhibited confidence, but inside he was doubtful, wondering how to get out from under the crushing weight of emails and meetings and...

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Bring control to an organisation which was in merger and needed to manage the costs of projects

Downward pressure on costs, changes to the marketplace and increasing corporate intrusions was turning this the supply chain business into a commodity and the Board realised they needed to raise their game. Through acquisitions, the supply chain business took control of a software house with a system in the end-client for its service and two...

Skills:

programme management enterprise agility
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Business Merger – Streamlining, Change and Improvement

As a result of a merger, this programme brought together the legacy ways to purchase all IT hardware and software into a single new process and then over the next twelve months worked with a near-shore outsourcer to define and test a new system which would deliver the process and benefits required by the merger...

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Cost Reduction Strategy

This utility needed to demonstrate to the Regulator that their business plan for the period 2020 – 2025 had challenged the frontier of efficiency across the business and had maximised innovative new technologies which would improve customer experience, the resilience of the business and water supply and reduced the customer bill to a minimum.

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