project management in case studies
Bracknell Forest reaps virtual rewards
Case Study The IT department secured funding for the virtualisation project from the council's Invest to Save initiative, which funds projects to deliver longer term savings. Dawson added: "It's simplified, it's more manageable,... [08 Aug 2008]
Danone on health kick with Itil
Case Study Danone estimates this significantly reduced the time needed for the project. The BMC technology ensured that best practice was used to support the project which was known internally as Common Language... [30 Jul 2008]
College classrooms go high-tech
Case Study The new building will bring together four existing campuses and the use of technology has been very much at the forefront of the project. The project was prompted by a poor Ofsted report in 2003, which... [02 Jul 2008]
Renault goes multilingual
Case Study Speaking to silicon.com, Peyman Kargar, VP of engineering, repair and warranty at Renault Service, said the project was part of the company's aims to become more competitive. The project has been running... [06 Jun 2008]
Philips' brings travel expenses down to earth
Case Study Since this project was started, Philips has piloted expense management in collaboration with American Express Consulting for other global suppliers. Dutch electronics giant Royal Philips Electronics has... [03 Oct 2007]
Blackpool saves £2m with contact management
Case Study The technology did not present any problems at implementation but Baron said the change of mindset was one of the biggest challenges of the project, with some departments unwilling to share their data. [06 Aug 2007]
Mothercare tears up paper-based store comms
Case Study Mothercare project manager John Kerr recalled that the organisation previously used a combined AS400 messaging and paper-based system. Mothercare has sped up communication times and boosted the effectiveness of marketing... [03 Jul 2007]
Lloyds TSB banks on SAP SRM
Case Study The transition project was started in August 2006 and the system went live on time, towards the end of March. The bank recently completed the rollout of a supplier relationship management (SRM)... [12 Jun 2007]
RSPB wings it with virtualisation
Case Study If not, we will go through the cost-benefits of having a physical or virtualised server depending on what the project needs. Courtney told silicon.com the RSPB is "not going mad" with the numbers of virtualised servers... [04 Jun 2007]
Channel Five switches on to virtualisation
Case Study One array is dedicated to general content management - both internal and customer facing - and another for a data warehousing project for the new media being created. The broadcaster has been working... [22 May 2007]
Linux move reaps dividends for stockbroker
Case Study The introduction of a new hardware OS was therefore a mission-critical project for the business said Michael Wheeler, finance partner at Redmayne-Bentley.silicon.com Financial Services Wheeler said: "It became a fairly... [18 May 2007]
Deutsche Bank looks to Russia for 'Six Degrees' of CRM
Case Study Luxoft was chosen because of its ability to innovate and work on a project that started out small, with pretty interesting technology but a "roadmap that wasn't crystal clear", said Marovitz. As a result of the success... [16 Mar 2007]
University liberates users with business intelligence
Case Study Marina Lim, SIS project manager at Roehampton, said the old system required "complex" queries and ran just once a week. Lim said: "Before they'd have to make the request to our central MIS [management... [13 Nov 2006]
Testing boosts Friends Provident's ecommerce apps
Case Study Gibbons said that 30 to 35 per cent of the costs of doing a project are associated with testing. It's much quicker to find and fix defects earlier in the project than in production," he said. We are... [08 Nov 2006]
Holiday resort slashes time for data queries
Case Study The project, linked to a customer's visitor card, could be used for workforce management. Verhoeff said: "We were afraid that with so much data, there would be no scalability [for the RFID... [26 Oct 2006]
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