Business IT Operations Moving To The Cloud

This company was looking to combine their IT business operations and move them to the cloud. Our IT Director came in to oversee the process, and look to keep costs as low as possible. The Director also helped by providing fractional based insights throughout the project.

Company Profile

This FTSE 250 company operates a number of organisations globally that mainly delivering advanced industrial engineering products.

CEO’s Mission

The company had a number of disparate IT departments that run on a federated model which needed changing. The programme was looking to harmonise the IT functions and bring these into a central centre of excellence whilst also moving the business IT operations into the Cloud and harmonising the services.

What Our Director Did

Assess The Health Of The Programme

The programme had spent 40% of the budget for the project already and hadn’t delivered any live services. The Director reviewed the goals,  as well as the progress and governance of the programme with the companies Finance and IT teams. This involved looking at benchmarks across the sector to provide a top to bottom estimate, as well as looking at a full bottom-up to explore the opportunities.

Conclusion Of The Review

After reviewing the business case it was evident there were numerous delivery costs missing from the business case and a number of overly optimistic benefits in the business case. In addition, the wider business did not align with the programme, and significant governance issues impacted the programme’s delivery. After reviewing the findings and exploring options with the executive team, they devised a new plan.

Focus On Foundations And Security

The IT Director developed a transitional plan to allow the benefits to be realised at minimal cost, including critical work to shore up the security of the operation and lay the foundation for the incoming permanent CIO.