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Fortune 100 Manufacturing — Engineered Materials & Chemicals

Business Process Management & Enterprise Architecture: Fortune 100 Transformation

EA · BPM · SAP · Salesforce

A Fortune 100 company with complex, matrixed organisational structure required IT transformation to address performance risk, IT outages, and cyber attacks adversely affecting market cap and credit rating.

THE SITUATION

The Situation

A Fortune 100 company had a complex, matrixed organizational structure that was a result of its global operating model coupled with significant M&A transactions. As a result, the IT environment became unwieldy and a significant performance risk. IT outages and cyber attacks became noticeably disruptive to both top and bottom lines, adversely affecting the corporation's market cap and credit rating.

BLUEPRINT OF SUCCESS

Blueprint of Success

  • Identified corporate sponsorship (COO) for a collaborative business-IT partnership to transform how the businesses and IT engaged.
  • Built teams for each line of business consisting of business process owners and IT leaders to plan and execute a 3-year transformation journey.
  • Engaged suppliers, outside thought leaders, and internal stakeholders to develop a blueprint for success.
  • Spent year 1 identifying process and technology simplification opportunities and achieving 2 quick-hit success stories.
  • Spent years 2 and 3 executing major transformation projects.

Architecture & Execution

Blueprint design and process flow.

Blueprint

Enterprise Architecture Transformation Blueprint

COO SponsorLeadership
LoB TeamsBusiness + IT
BlueprintDesign
Quick WinsYear 1
TransformYears 2–3
Business-IT Transformation Layer
App Reduction
IT Spend Saved
Credit Uplift

Process Flow

3-Year Transformation Execution Path

01

Sponsor

COO alignment

02

Build

LoB teams

03

Blueprint

Design success

04

Year 1

Quick wins

05

Years 2–3

Execute transform

3 YEAR ACHIEVEMENT HIGHLIGHTS

3 Year Achievement Highlights

60%+

Application portfolio reduced

5,500 to under 2,000 applications.

30%

IT spend reduced

$1.2B/yr reduced to $850M.

Credit rating improvement

Overall corporate profits double digit CAGR.

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