Client

Engagement /Experience

IT Strategy & Architecture

Major Utility

Provided the methodology and coached the team in developing an enterprise IT Strategy to position the company for the coming industry changes.

Major Transportation Firm

Facilitated developing an IT Strategy/Architecture Plan to guide the development of a next generation package tracking system, including new technologies and development process.

Major Reinsurance Company

Developed a Business and Technology strategy for leveraging their proprietary underwriting patents and technology to launch an innovative new business.

Major Credit Card Company

Defined the Architecture for their next generation credit card processing platform.

Consumer Electronics Manufacturer

Completed an IT strategy for a financially troubled consumer electronics manufacturer. The primary focus of the strategy was to rationalize and stabilize their current application portfolio and upgrade their IT capabilities .

Process Manufacturer

Developed an IT Strategy, including selection of an ERP solution to replace the majority of their existing applications.

Air Transportation Company

Completed an IT Assessment and Strategy

Major Retailer

Led development of an IT Strategy that included a new definition of Product data and a data architecture to define how product data interacted with other business data; it led to a new product mgmt/supply chain system.

Lean IT Transformation

Major Health Clinic

Developed an IT strategy and application architecture and provided a new development methodology and oversight for the key project.

Major Utility

Developed an IT strategy and solutions architecture, including baseline assessments of the IT function and the specification of IT principles, performance measures, improvement opportunities, and implementation plans .

Global Financial Services Company

Developed a strategy and plan to reduce the IT expenditures of a large financial services company by 20%.  Helped structure the Program Office and manage the Program and deliver the savings.

Major Financial Services Company

Led a full-time team of 40 client IT leaders in the development of a comprehensive strategy and plan for dramatically improving their IT capabilities while reducing their overall IT expenditures by 25% over three years.

Big 3 Automaker

Worked with the CIO to transform the capabilities of this company’s 2,500 person Solution Delivery organization. The initiatives included bringing delivery of application development and maintenance back in house.

Federal Government

Led a project to integrate the 5,000 person IT organizations of three Federal Government agencies. The scope of the project included applications, infrastructure, organization design, IT process effectiveness and IT sourcing strategy.

Property & Casualty Insurance Company

Implemented an Enterprise PMO and standard Program/Project Management processes and tools. Implemented Portfolio Management, Resource Management, Demand Management and Quality Management processes and tools.  

Integrated Steel Manufacturer

Led a series of projects to transform this company's Order Fulfilment, Procurement, Maintenance and Information Technology operations, including managing and negotiating the outsourcing of all of the company’s IT functions.

Major Insurance Company

Led an Information Technology Assessment and Strategy that was part of the development of an Enterprise Transformation Strategy and Plan

Major Life Insurance Company

Developed the strategy and plan for improving the effectiveness of their Enterprise Architecture function.

Program Leadership

Engineering Services

Conducted a Quality Assurance review  of a major ERP implementation using Oracle Financials, HRMS, Projects modules, in the design phase of the project.

Real Estate Investment Firm

Set up a PMO to oversee all enterprise projects, starting with a new ERP system, including establishing a new processes,  governance model, process owners, business case analysis, financial management, and deliverable library.

Major US Airline

Led a 300 person program to transform the Maintenance and Engineering operations. It included applying Lean manufacturing and MRP concepts to an airline Maintenance and Rebuild operation and the design and development of a custom system to support the re-engineered operations.

Big 3 Automaker

Conducted an in-depth review of a $300 million, global program to develop and roll out a state of the market Service Parts and Logistics System based on SAP. Provided technology leadership and oversight for this program.

High Tech Distributor

Provided overall Quality and Risk Management oversight to a “bet the company” Program to replace all of the company’s core systems on an extremely aggressive schedule as part of a Business “Carve-Out”

Medical Equipment Manufacturer

Led a project to rescue a two year, “Runaway” ERP implementation.

Major Insurance Company

Completed an assessment of a struggling IT Infrastructure Transformation Program. Led the implementation of improved Project, Program and Portfolio Management processes and tools.

Major Telecomm Company

Conducted executive reviews for large development projects (e.g., $50 to $70 million development budget), data management organizations, and information architectures for a major telecommunication and energy company.

IT Executive Support

Several Clients

Assisted in the evaluation, hiring and ramp-up of a new  CIO.

Major Insurance Provider

Provided coaching to the CIO in reshaping his role to lead a newly transformed IT organization; also assisted him in defining best practices to drive the IT transformation effort.

Assessments (note: in most above engagements we also perform assessments)

Global Oil Company

Conducted an assessment of the IT function that led to a restructuring of their IT processes and roles & responsibilities.

Global Financial Services Company

Conducted assessments of their major Data Centers and Infrastructure operations in the U.S. And Europe.