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Pulling Together

 

What had to be done?

Severn Trent Water is the world's fourth largest privately-owned water company - serving over 8 million customers across the heart of the UK, stretching from the Bristol Channel to the Humber, and from mid-Wales to the East Midlands. 

Severn Trent Water's objective was to identify locally proven 'best practices'  and then, with the aid of technology, exploit them across the whole organisation.  The ASSIST - Adopting Standard Systems In Severn Trent - was created to manage the delivery of this objective.
 

What our consultants did...

 
  • Direction and day-to-day management of the Programme;

  • Implementation of centrally co-ordinate, but locally owned, Change Management processes to identify and encourage the adoption of standard processes;

  • Overall management of the design, procurement and implementation of a standardised IT infrastructure to 5000 staff, enabling all staff to have access to the IT tools they needed at any location;

  • Project Management support to the national and local offices to assist in the planning and adoption of  new processes and technology;

  • Management of the development, and integration with legacy applications, a new suite of ’Groupware’ applications reflecting the agreed business processes;

  • Management of process led IT training for 5000 staff across the business.

 



How this helped...    

 

  • Processes were standardised enabling greater efficiency and supporting the business change to a functional organisation;

  • 70% reduction in local 'unsupported' applications; 

  • A flexible IT infrastructure which enabled remote and mobile working for all staff;

  • provided everyone with a tightly integrated set of productivity and groupware tools enable information to be easily and consistently shared across geographic and organistional boundaries.

 



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