David Young

IT / Telecoms Consultant, Programme Manager and Business Coach

Information Management Strategy – UK Government agency

Summary:

As a key component of this government agency’s Information Management Strategic Investment Programme, a business case was required to identify and quantify the benefits of Application Portfolio consolidation and ongoing management. David led the delivery of a work package to:

Analyse the current costs (As-Is) for the Application Portfolio (applying a pragmatic level of detail)

Define the financial model and business case framework to best represent the strategy of subject matter experts

Manage partnering consultancies’ deliverables along side internal resources against very tight timescale and within a changing environment

Describe the Application Portfolio Strategy in the form of business benefits

Develop a strong and highly credible business case – with supporting financial model

In addition to the above work-package, David was also requested to take overall management of all financial modelling across the entire Strategic Investment Programme, to ensure accuracy, common language and the ability to provide a ‘rolled-up’ picture and refine TCO (total cost of ownership) projections for the over-arching business case.

Key Skills Deployed:

Senior stakeholder management (Director level)

Tenacity to probe and gain answers

Financial Analysis & modelling

Planning of resources (internal and external) and timelines

Business case production and management through Gate process

Benefits Realisation

Outcome:

David delivered the final business case two days ahead of deadline. David’s overarching submission was approved by the agency’s Programme Review Group for a total investment of £60m+ over two years, with cumulative net savings of £370m over ten years.

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