Ensuring success in your Oracle digital transformation

Ensuring success in your Oracle digital transformation

A health check for transformation programmes

We’ve developed a robust, tried-and-tested method to help clients ensure their Oracle transformations deliver the desired objectives. How? By providing a “health check” – an unbiased expert assessment of the transformation programme, identifying any issues and giving you actionable recommendations to resolve them. A health check is particularly valuable for clients who have niggling doubts about the direction and progress of their Oracle transformation, a disconnect between business and IT stakeholders, or lack of executive engagement.

Here’s how it works. Typically, clients come to us when they see some red flags in an Oracle implementation that they’re conducting internally or with one or more system integrators. For example, that might be a high number of issues or change requests. But at any point in the project, a health check evaluates the current situation and recommends the best way to address any problems and deliver a high-quality outcome. This helps the business receive a healthy return on its investment.

Next, we conduct a health check of the transformation programme in three stages:

  1. We evaluate the programme’s starting plan, strategic vision and other important documents

  2. We conduct interviews with business and IT stakeholders and validate our findings and observations from the data and documents provided

  3. We develop recommendations showing how to get the implementation back on track, while making the most of the prior investment. 

We tailor each health check to the scope and status of the transformation programme and the client’s concerns. The areas covered usually include programme governance and methodology, value realisation, solution scope and design, business and IT readiness, and the deployment roadmap. We provide a fresh, objective perspective on the direction and progress in each area. And we bring in specialists for each part of the assessment, forming teams that are truly greater than the sum of their parts.

The results are fast, with a rapid health check taking approximately three weeks. Many clients then choose to extend this by six to eight weeks so that we can run a deeper-dive assessment of the “problem areas” identified. At the end of the health check, we deliver our fresh, independent view of the transformation programme in a report for the board or executive committee.

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