Wisterland

Is a deal consolidation company specialising in renewable energy development projects in emerging markets.

The project was successfully completed and the sites sold on for the next phase of development.

UBS Investment Bank

UBS is considered the 3^rd largest investment bank in the world. K4 worked with the IT internal (ITI) business Network Services (EMEA) division for 2 years successfully delivering a number of regional projects for demanding internal clients (Equities, FX and Market Links).

Vodafone 3G Launch

Thrupoint is a major network engineering company that required a project director to assist with the delivery of a number of significant 3G telecoms projects for their Vodafone client. K4 assisted thrupoint in taking over the programme management of £107M technical launch of UK telecomms 3G services. 

Further to this K4 assisted in the successfull installation and activation of 3G services in the North of England and Scotland. Including the transfer of standard 'business as usual' processes to the operations of a 3rd party outsiurce supplier. As well as intergartion of the alarm processes for performance measurement and reporting purposes. This project received acceptance sign off form teh programme board and all stakeholders.

United Utilities

United Utilities is the largest operator of water and waste in the UK. Our role was to assist the lab technicians define their functional requirements for an in-house software system. The system was to report on daily test results and conduct trend analyses of specific chemicals to identify potential contamination.

This was successfully achieved by conducting a 3 day workshop with the lab technicians, where a final User Requirements Document was produced. The documentation was submitted to the in-house IT supplier for a quotation.

However a decision was taken to issue and ‘Invitation to tender’ and the information supplied was then used to create a 'Request for quotation' package with the remaining process handed over to the UUI Procurement team.

Smiths Group PLC

Smiths Group Plc is a major engineering company spanning 4 industry sectors (aeronautical, medical, Industrial and shipping). They required help to manage a large, expensive, high risk human resource system implementation programme across its decentralised global organisation. 

This involved different sized businesses, within different industry sectors, across 43 countries. The system suppliers provided a 'turn key' solution and an implementation strategy was derived for each business type through categorisation including an associated cost model.

Each business was required to 'buy in' to the programme. This was achieved via a 3 day seminar for the IT, HR and Managing Directors of each business. It described the system selection process, proposed the implementation models by category and defined the business benefits. 

On the final day the attendees were provided with hands on demonstrations of the various system and functions.  . The result was that we had to create and train a further two implementation teams.The seminar was so successful that it was oversubscribed with more businesses signing up than anticipated

As the programme stretched across the globe it was essential that everyone participating was aware of the programme delivery structure, approach and standards. Therefore a Programme Support Office was set up to assist business users and the implementation teams, facilitating better relations and improved communications.