Leading a global large scale organisational transformation programme

• The objective was to create a new organisation with seven global capability areas involving 240 people transitioning to the new organisation
• The key challenge was to change the organisation structure and build new capabilities, whilst still delivering existing excellent service
• The communication and engagement plan was highly complex, including co-ordination and delivery of engagement with trades unions and works councils in multiple countries
• The project also involved the creation of budgets for new capability areas and identification of savings opportunities of US$70M

Within a few days, Skarbek mobilised an experienced Project Manager who designed and implemented a full suite of Project Management tools and techniques including:

• Multi workstream Project Management approach
• Deliverables, milestones and workstream plans
• Dependencies between workstreams
• Issue and risk management and mitigation
• Project Governance in place with weekly team and sponsor reporting
• Steering Committee management and reporting, as well as presentations to Commercial Leadership Team and Executive Committee
• Coaching for PMO assistant to enable her to transition into PM role for final three month phase of project via Skarbek ‘DNA-transfer’ proprietary capability building tools
• The project was designed, led to a successful “Go Live”, and handed-over successfully

After deploying our Project Management approach, the Project Team quickly gained momentum and were able to deliver a key project milestone with the go-live of the new organisation structure. In addition, the project team delivered:

• Roadmap and plan for new global capability building
• Engagement with unions and works councils to enable new organisation
• Continued excellent service delivery during design of new organisation and transition to go-live
• A successful transition from PMO assistant to PM role