Project Management Case Studies and Examples
blucone project consultants have proven experience in providing solutions to a broad range of organisations and sectors. Our project management case studies cover a wide variety of complex IT and business change projects and programmes
Award winning financial consolidation project for world leading Drinks Company.
Implemented a European Regional Treasury Centre migrating the treasury activity from 16 countries into a single centre in twelve months. The project won an award and is generating annual savings in excess of $5m a year. Streamlined the governance process and combined two workstreams to reduce the implementation costs by $1.2m. Structured the Programme to undertake concurrent deployments in three Regions undertaking an East/West and North/South deployment concurrently the savings are expected to be in excess of $7m per annum and will be completed in 24 months.
Healthcare software development project
Responding to tax change (IPT) incorporated a change into the entire customer facing applications. Re-designed the approach the software used to create a tax model that simplified the tax calculations. As bi-product changed the tax point providing a one off cash flow benefit of £127m.
Project Change Management & Business Transformation for leading Insurance company.
Business Transformation which doubled the organization’s turnover in two and half years to £750m. Replaced all the infrastructure to support straight through processing introducing a Websphere Process Server to integrate the web front end solutions to the legacy mainframe applications eliminating the need to undertake complex/expensive development on the mainframe. Launched two new product lines and fourteen web based propositions.
Project Start up for Borough Council. Complex systems implementation project using a number of external suppliers. Team mobilisation, planning, supplier contract negotiation. Project completed on time and within budget. Achieved target benefits leading to a net reduction in Council Tax. "Getting this project setup correctly from the beginning was one of the key success factors" - Chief Executive
Project acceleration for global Pharmaceutical Company. Merger driven requirement for worldwide financial consolidation solution to be delivered in 12 weeks. Full project methodology used with no high-risk shortcuts. Working systems and processes delivered on time. The CEO commended this very successful project as it enabled the merged financial results to be reported within 30 working days after the merger.
Project rescue for a multi national Company recovery of complex software development project. Assessment, replanning, execution. Successful delivery of key project benefits using business and IT resources working together. "Fantastic - brought in by the end of the year after all. Well done" VP of IT.
Project change management for a large Telecoms Company - Project managed the migration of financial systems, data and processes company, achieving cost reductions circa 1million p.a.
Project healthchecks and portfolio management for large Finance group providing leadership to project managers and successfully delivering a portfolio of finance related projects value £20 million.
PMO - Project dashboards for a logistics company introducing a £50m change programme delivered attractive, relevant dashboards enabling the Programme Board to see the project status at a glance and stream leaders cut back on cumbersome monthly reporting.
Project mentoring for a European Central Government mentored existing staff so that the client was able to build their own project delivery and training capability. The government were able to update their processes, systems and accounting practices and build their own permanent team.
Project rescue for a new grant distribution organisation - introduced structured change in an environment of constantly changing staff and user requirements. The solution was delivered in time for the organisation to meet its £300m grant targets.
