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Selected Management Consultancy Assignments

Selected Document Management Consultancy

  • The process and procedures of three dissimilar AstraZeneca service desks were integrated into call centre type help desk. Care was taken to capture and make available the implicit knowledge of the existing processes.
  • Carried out a series of short projects for AstraZeneca as follows:
    • Updated the MAXIMO Manuals to the new ER/ES compliant system.
    • Advised on the format and provided Quality Manual for Facility Management.
    • Rationalised of SHE documents and developed a new process.
    • Developed, documented and trained staff in the business processes for Asset Disposal, Records Management and Maintenance Management in AstraZeneca.
    • Advised on how AZ UK Group Engineering Standards should be named, stored and retrieved. Then advised the central engineering functions seeking to create an integrated resource of Engineering Standards and Codes of Practice.

Selected Asset Management Consultancy

  • Advised on how AZ UK Group Engineering Standards should be named, stored and retrieved. Then advised the central engineering functions seeking to create an integrated resource of Engineering Standards and Codes of Practice.
  • Reviewed the needs of the 1,400-person Syntegra research site supported by c100 engineers for an improved building/facility facility management process and supporting system. Reported to management and assignment extended to manage first phase of implementation. This included the selection of outsourced support system and the beginning of the re-engineering of business processes.
  • As part of an overall change management and quality programme and in the first of many contracts with this company, analysed the future business needs for Engineering Information of a 1,500 employee pharmaceutical R&D facility, with annual engineering spend on building development and facility/system maintenance of £60m capital & £12m revenue. Developed a data model for the real-time and facility life-cycle information flows. Proposed Vision Statement was accepted with the medium-term goals of an IS strategy with components of Facility Management, Document Management, Intelligent Engineering Database & CAD. The strategy was integrated with the ongoing Engineering Quality Project based on business processes and workflows, involving considerable management of change in working practices. The assignment continued with the further development of business processes/information flows and the development and presentation of training to implement the processes.

Selected Information Management Consultancy

  • The then Chairman and Deputy of AMEC Group Division departed in quick succession. The main Board took an enhanced interest in IT and sought reassurance that the expenditure on IT for systems represented value for money. Provided the audit in the required 10 days. The report and recommendations were accepted.
  • Audit of the IT function against ISO 17799. for the Royal College of Music
  • The first project for PostComm documented the principle information flows and audited the systems that supported them. The second contract carried out the recommendations of a full system restore for disaster recovery needs and documented outsourced service processes.
  • Reviewed all processes and systems used in offshore platform design company and made recommendations on the migration of legacy systems from mainframe to client/server architecture. Audited Engineering Systems in the context of the future needs of the business, with particular emphasis of 3D Structural Modeling and 2D Engineering Databases. Facilitated meetings to develop the strategy.