Example Projects

Midsize European Oil Company, with assets in the North Sea as well as various overseas locations.

Objectives:
  • Put in place a three year investment strategy for information systems.
  • Analyse information services requirements of the exploration and development organisation.
  • Recommend a team structure for supporting the information requirements of the business.
    • Approach:
  • Reviewed all existing systems, and developed consolidated requirements statement
  • Defined a portfolio of projects to be executed over a two year period.
    • Business Value Delivered:
  • A well defined statement of business requirements for Information Systems, agreed by all stakeholders.
  • A multi-year strategic plan to guide investments in Information Management capabilities.

    • Subsidiary of international super major with operating assets throughout the world

    Objectives:
  • Define strategy for delivery of data management services (seismic)
  • Assist in tender award, contractor transition, and progress monitoring
  • Recommend a team structure service delivery lines for supporting the information requirements of the business.
    • Approach:
  • Reviewed all existing systems, services, contracts, and developed consolidated requirements statement, with a long term vision and implementation roadmap
  • Helped define a portfolio of projects to be executed to achieve the desired end state.
    • Business Value Delivered:
  • A well-defined statement of business requirements, agreed by all stakeholders.
  • A multi-year strategic plan to guide investments.
  • An efficient and effective tender process

    • Midsize European Oil Company, with assets in the North Sea as well as various overseas locations.

    Objectives: Define a technical information management policy for the exploration department
    Approach:
  • Developed and documented the business case for data management best practices and standards related to technical workflows in exploration.
  • Developed a summary information management policy handbook to communicate the best practices to exploration staff.
    • Business Value Delivered: Raised the profile of internal data management best practices and standards, and communicated the value of sound data management to the use community.

    Overseas Joint Venture of a large energy services company

    Objectives:
  • Integrate technical, business, and operational information across multiple systems
  • Harmonize investments and articulate business value of various Information Systems Initiatives
  • Ensure that overall programme is managed in line with best practices
    • Approach:
  • Reviewed all existing systems, and developed consolidated requirements statement
  • Defined a portfolio of projects, and the teams for each project
  • Defined the overall programme management organisation
  • Provided regular mentoring and management support to the programme management team
    • Business Value Delivered:
  • Better visibility, well defined objectives, and agreed deliverables for each project
  • A formal and measurable approach to programme management

    • Medium Size software and services company

    Objectives:
  • Refine market positioning of the product suite
  • Document and simplify the value propositions of the company
  • Develop the marketing messages and supporting material
    • Approach:
  • Analysed the company software product suite
  • Carried out research on competitive products
  • Developed the new "go-to-market" strategy
    • Business Value Delivered:
  • A simplified and easily communicated value proposition for the products and services.
  • Positive feedback to future development plans

    • Large international services company (Energy Sector)

    Objectives:
  • Define strategy for business growth
  • Develop a three year business plan
    • Approach:
  • Work with senior management to analyse possible growth strategies
  • Identify the resource requirements to support the growth strategy
  • Develop the business plan
    • Business Value Delivered:
  • A well defined and agreed strategy for growth
  • Better communication for senior management

    • Large international services company (outside the Energy sector)

    Objectives:
  • Define workflow automation requirements of a service line
  • Carry out initial design to support the ?buy vs. build? decision
    • Approach:
  • Work with service line managers to define and document the workflows (business processes)
  • Using Universal Modelling Language (UML), provide a formal analysis document to study the match between Commercial, off-the-shelf software (COTS) and the business requirements.
    • Business Value Delivered:
  • Reduced development risk through better requirements analysis
  • Reduced development costs.

    • Large international services company (outside the Energy sector)

    Objectives: Conduct due diligence on the software products, development processes and software team of a company being acquired.
    Approach:
  • Develop "due diligence plan"
  • Interview the software development and support team of the acquisition target company
  • Analyse the software processes and documentation.
    • Business Value Delivered:
  • Assessment of current state and organizational maturity of the target (fewer surprises during merger)
  • Assessment of likely resources (financial and technical) required to integrate the software processes.