Situation: The HR Department within a large commercial Enterprise required system improvements to support a strategy for increasing employee engagement across the Enterprise. They also wished to redirect any time gained from system efficiencies towards supporting the engagement effort.
Intervention: Analysis of as-is solution architecture, weekly team stakeholder meetings, functional breakdown and analysis of HR business architecture, process workshops, definition of to-be solution architecture and proposal of next step activities.
Results:
1) Customer realisation of cost and challenge in integrating best of breed HR and related systems.
2) Identification of how most of the business needs discovered in the analysis did not require the assumed systems integration or replacement but could instead be realised by a proposed improvement in reporting functionality.
3) Customer used analysis to inform key decisions: a) Halt implementation of learning tools solution and switch to functionality emerging within another application, b) Invest in Flexible Benefits system integration, c) Progress new intranet platform and associated integrations.
BUSINESS ANALYSIS: BENEFITS STATEMENT
Service provided:
Produced a benefits statement, which formed core of business case and enabled capital expenditure approval for replacement of Commercial Advertising Management and Order Entry Systems for a large UK media company.
SOLUTION ANALYSIS: SOLUTION SPACE PROPOSAL
Service provided:
Managed the exploration of solution space for multiple systems required to form future advertising system solutions for a major UK media company.
SOLUTION ANALYSIS: IT RENEWAL
Service provided:
Provided analysis for this large media organisation through being a member of the Commercial IT Renewal Team.
Advised on the design and implementation of new advertising booking, page planning and production tracking systems.
MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING
Service provided:
Management of sales reporting and analysis activities for the Finance Director of an Ecommerce company.