| Business | Primary Technologies | Role(s) | Benefits |
| International paint manufacture and distribution. | Sage ERP, MISys, Accellos WMS, Google Apps integration (SaaS), Active Directory migration, business intelligence tools | Running the IT function, membership of 6 person executive committee responsible for running the company | Completion of a $1m region-wide ERP project.
Migration of email from Exchange Server to Google Apps for 153 staff in 5 countries.
Creation of all IT policies and most procedures.
Active directory consolidation across 5 countries.
SQL database replication across 5 countries into a single data warehouse.
Successful negotiation of a region-wide telecoms contract.
All projects done with $0 CapEx. Supplier contracts were rationalized to produce year-on-year savings of, minimum, 10%.
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| Caribbean international banking | Strategic information security | Project management of bank-wide task force to define and enforce information security policy | This was a critical project for the bank to meet audit requirements - hence the task force. The policies for bank-wide information classification and security were created and ratified on time. |
| Private offshore banking | Internet banking, core banking (S1 and Finacle), SWIFT payment processing (MT102), credit card product definition and processing (VISA and Evertec) | Shaping the business analysis and project management portfolio; defining best practices; coaching analysis techniques. | Delivery of a new banking channel - global reach for the first time.
Analysis to optimized and secure wire payments.
End-to-end business process modelling for a new core banking system (first time the bank had done it).
Launch of the bank's first channel (visa card) specifically for business users. |
| International media | CRM, SaaS, Document Management | Project management of a multi-national, multi-company team | Bringing disparate teams together to collaborate on a common platform.
Budget: 3m GBP; actual cost: 400k GBP (13.3%!)
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| Large UK retail | Internet payment processing, configuration management tools, test management and automation tools | Project management, project portfolio management, test environment management, project consultancy | Consolidation of technology environments + optimization of project resources + rationalization of projects = cost reduction + better project success rate |
| UK banking | Internet banking, performance testing tools & methods, proof-of-concept testing, technology consolidation planning | Business analysis, project management, strategic technology advisory service (using Balanced Scorecard), supplier negotiation, system selection, vendor/partner management | Typically, these were internet-enablement projects: banks wanting to engage the internet channels, but needing consulting services on how to do so. |
