Whitepapers and Research

Information Technology

Clientcase - Corporate HR IS Review Strategy Development

Align HR-IS strategy with business requirements: One of the world’s largest banks had invested heavily in their HR information systems for ca. 50 countries in the EMEA region. However, they felt they didn’t leverage the technology they had as much as they should and were lacking consistency across countries. They also were not sure how their standards compared to market benchmarks. They set up a project with the goal to make their HR-IS and HR shared service centre competitive against external p
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Clientcase - Global Travel and Expense Project based on SaaS and Self Service

A high tech client aimed at making their T&E processes more efficient and get controls and analytics in place. The project comprised a new travel policy, a new global travel agency, online travel booking and online expense reporting with approval workflows, rollout of credit cards to 50% of the workforce, an outsourced audit service, and tighter controls on providers of travel and accommodation. The project was successfully delivered within 3 months, followed by a period of optimisation in inter
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Clientcase - Insurance Global Change

Managing Global Change in the Insurance Industry: To deal with hardening market conditions, one of the world’s largest and most established insurance firms sought to set a new agenda for their operations division in order to differentiate what is generally regarded as a commoditised product. iProCon consultants helped the organisation to identify the areas of focus to shape a Target Operating Model (TOM) that would enable them to drive ahead of the competition in terms of both efficiency and
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MiniCase - ROI in Talent

How superior selection, engagement, and retention add 20% to the bottom line of a business hotel in Frankfurt.
      MiniCase - ROI in Talent   (144KB)

Outsourcing your SAP HCM system

A conference presentation taking you through the options of outsourcing your SAP HCM system (particularly looking at interface architecture) and touching on change management.
      Outsourcing your SAP HCM system   (1134KB)

Presentation - How to blow the project budget

There are many ways that can guarantee you will blow your budget on technology projects. This presentation takes you through a few of the more effective methods. (Note: Large file size)
      Presentation - How to blow the project budget   (12188KB)

WhitePaper - Define and Deliver the Vision

Many senior management teams have a clear idea of what they want their organisation or project to achieve, but have difficulty in distilling the often complex plans into a clear message for all staff. In tandem with this challenge is the need to overcome organisational inertia to bring about change and deliver your desired vision. This paper focuses on two simple tools that can be used to address the above challenges.
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Whitepaper - Managing Change in International Rollouts

“Change management” has recently become a compulsory element whenever managers of large scale IT initiatives present their project to the board. It gets even more attention when the project happens in an international / intercultural context. In this article we look primarily at the transformation required at the corporate centre based on the experience of iProCon consultants in a variety of international projects.
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Whitepaper - Stakeholder power as barrier for Enterprise SaaS

Software as a Service is becoming an important concept for large organisations appealing to CxOs and business users for a variety of reasons. Recent discussions have show that there are quite a few barriers slowing down the adoption of the idea and that it’s not necessarily the right thing for all organisations anyway. We’ve identified one particular barrier, which seems to me to have the potential to slow down SaaS adoption considerably: there are powerful stakeholders, who are loosing out in t
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Whitepaper - Workday HCM Enterprise SaaS

      Whitepaper - Workday HCM Enterprise SaaS   (384KB)