CT Catapult – Cloud SAP Solution Delivery
Background
This client is a start-up company within the Bio research arena. Their vision is for the UK to be a global leader in the development, delivery & commercialisation of their chosen technology. This includes: taking products into clinical trial; de-risking them for further investment; providing clinical expertise and access to NHS clinical partners; providing technical expertise and infrastructure to ensure products can be made to GMP and delivered cost effectively; providing regulatory expertise to ensure that products can get to the clinic safely in the shortest time; providing opportunities for collaboration, nationally and globally; and providing access to business expertise, grants and investment finance so that commercially viable products are progressed and investable propositions generated. As a fast growing organisation, they needed a simple and efficient system to support their rudimentary business processes yet provide them with enough latitude to support the agile way that the organisation was evolving.
The Challenge
- Fast growing organisation – from 0 to 70 employees in 12 months
- Restricted availability of business resource to define a target operating model
- Focus on doing business not implementing IT systems
- Very little IT support and no application support
- New and evolving business processes
- Limited ERP usage experience within key areas of the business
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Searchlight Role
- Searchlight were retained as the client’s Project Manager, requirements manager and CFO/CIO advisor
- Searchlight worked with the system integrator to ensure a technical and business efficient solution was delivered, based on SAP ByDesign
- Searchlight led the business analysis, requirements definition and business process design for their CRM implementation phase
- Searchlight assessed the marketplace for System Integrators and recommend a way forward for the client
Value and Benefit Delivered
- The direction and capability needed to deliver a business efficient and compliant solution was provided through our knowledge of delivering Cloud-based solutions for SME organisations
- The delivery of the CRM phase of the project was properly defined and overseen the transition of System Integrator was optimally facilitated and we advised the Client throughout this process
- The transition of System Integrator was optimally facilitated and we advised the Client throughout this process
- Maximum value was extracted from the relationship between Client and SI through our management of the relationship
Searchlight helped us to shape our SAP project, and establish the right level of governance for an SME organisation, helping us to deliver both new business processes and the enabling SAP solution. Searchlight’s insight and experience provided a huge R.O.I. – their pragmatic approach to IT-enabled change ensured success for us as well as our system integrator.
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