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Project Management

Case Study: Alpheus Environmental

Nature of Project: IT consultancy

Our IT consultant carried out extensive software and hardware systems analysis of all internal IT systems, infrastructure and processes for one of the UK’s leading waste water management organisations.

The scope of the project included working with individual departments to ascertain existing systems processes and requirements, research of business critical software applications, the production of several detailed reports including recommendations, cost-benefit analysis that saved the overall project £68,000, negotiation with senior directors, the project team, the company's existing technical support contractor and third party software vendors to ensure the project remained within budget and business constraints.

Case Study: Prospects Learning Services

Nature of Project: Bespoke database/software development and IT consultancy

Our consultants were invited to work with one of the UK's leading School Inspection providers to discuss the development of a customised on-line school inspection and data management system. The project brief centered around the capture, tracking and reporting of data collected during the various stages of the school inspection cycle.

During the initial fact finding and planning phases of the project we worked closely with the senior management team in order to understand their business, document all of their requirements and understand their internal processes. We then prepared a detailed project plan outlining all expected outcomes, costs, deliverables, user training and system support. Built on our core Osiris platform, the information management system was developed and built over a 12 month period with regular meetings and remote discussions taking place to ensure the project was on schedule, to specification and to budget.

The inspection management system increased the efficiency of the entire inspection management process and reduced the massive amounts of manual administration required to manage the previous paper based legacy system. On-going process improvements included access to remote users throughout the United Kingdom, disaster recovery processes, system back-up procedures, security protocols, user authentication for remote access and time saving solutions and functionality to further improve the efficiency of other business critical areas of the organisation.