Construction Business Control Panel: Connected planning, building, operating and financing intelligence for CxOs.
Reliable forecasting, mitigated risk, better outcomes:
Insight greatly simplifies and accelerates connecting the tapestry of people, processes & data found in any organisation. MS Excel workbooks are connected, not discarded and other IT systems are joined to form a Common Data Foundation. A single version of the truth that delivers real-time reporting and forecasting to leaders at all levels as they want to see it.
2. Project Certainty, Margins & Growth…
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Ramboll Group A/S, the £1.2bn global construction company
uniquely solved this problem with ----------- ‘connected
planning’ for construction. A new approach that sustainably
delivers cross functional collaboration with a single version
of the truth and real-time insight for better, faster decision
making. Not only have Ramboll achieved real-time
governance, they’ve also cut reporting effort by 90%.
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…depend on avoiding unexpected delays, costs and
wasted resources. Yet essential cross-functional
teamwork and timely decision making are impaired
by ineffective, siloed information systems.
3. Connected Planning, Reporting & Forecasting
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A handful to 1,000’s of projects planned and
executed with clear cross-functional insight.
Double digit performance improvements in a
small number of weeks.
Efficiently and quickly shaped to precisely
meet the situation and aspirations of each
organisation.
High adoption, helped by natively connecting
Excel™ spreadsheets and other IT systems
into a connected data foundation.
connects projects, people, teams and organisations in real-time.
4. Connected Data Foundation
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Project
Teams
Finance &
Project
Controllers
Operations,
PMOs &
Project
Excellence
Leadership &
Management
The Connected Data Foundation (CDF) is a shared,
real-time, single version of the truth. It enables
everyone anywhere in the organisation, or outside the
organisation, to collaborate*.
Excel™ spreadsheets are automatically error checked
and connected. Teams get creative in a familiar
environment. The data they need flows right into their
spreadsheets, their output flows to others via the CDF.
Tailored, real-time reporting is created wherever
needed. Advanced Business Intelligence (BI) and
Artificial Intelligence (AI) analytics can be added to
gain even deeper business insight.
Highly adaptable, Insight CDF is quickly shaped to fit
unique and local needs. Existing IT systems are
integrated removing pressure to rip up and replace.
* Flexible data access controls limit access where needed
5. The Impact of Connected Planning in Ramboll Group A/S
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£1.2bn global construction consulting company headquartered in Copenhagen.
13,800 staff, operating from 300 offices around the world with a portfolio of over 20,000 projects.
About
1. Cross-functional governance and real-time forecasting not possible with any other solution
2. Large scale productivity gains unlocked while avoiding expensive & risky transformation
3. A Connected Data Foundation maintains a single version of the truth in a Cloud database
4. From requirements analysis to globally live with full engagement in <4 months
5. Multiple stakeholders including Project Managers, Project Controllers, Project Experts, Finance
Directors, Business Unit Leads, Snr Group Directors and the CEO … all connected
6. Began with 100 projects, on route to 2,000
7. Impressive ROI
Case Study Key Points
6. Connected Planning, Reporting & Forecasting @ Ramboll
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A few of the Ramboll connected spreadsheets. 100’s of spreadsheets, no longer ‘silos’. Each auto-error
checked and connected to a database. ONE version of the truth.
7. Ramboll Leadership Comments
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David Glazier, Ramboll Group A/S, Senior Group Director of Operations
“GLC’s unique approach to connecting people in multi-project environments captured my attention. I
wanted to avoid the inherent risks of adopting yet another software application. There was some
scepticism that GLC’s tailored approach would work but they’ve delivered impressive results. Real-time
status and forecasting are enabling all stakeholders in our project eco-system to make faster, better
decisions. Effective portfolio governance is contributing to continued improvements of our bottom line and
the lowering of work place stress by providing an effective early warning system that allows effective
decision making and timely mitigation of issues. I’m delighted this is a trend we can now continue.”
Grant Sonne-Clifford, Ramboll Group A/S, Global Project Excellence Lead
“Since 2015 we’ve made great strides in increasing project performance. Ramboll is now one of only 67
companies globally to be accredited by the Association for Project Management (APM). A foundational
element of good project governance and reporting is data. Any organisation that lacks a solution to flow
data between stakeholders at all levels has not reached peak performance. We know this is very difficult to
achieve so I was intrigued by GLC’s approach of tailoring their flexible technology platform to fit our unique
needs. The company showed they had very good understanding of our immediate needs and future
aspirations. The results have been impressive. A very good ROI for Ramboll but more importantly we are
now ‘unblocked’ from expanding our Project Excellence performance reporting programme. The future
holds far greater and wider value creation for Ramboll and our clients.”
8. Smooth Implementation, Productivity Unlocked
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L-R: Sylvia Sciuchetti, Ramboll Group Senior
Consultant; Sean Blencowe, Green Light Change
CEO; Ilektra Marazaki, Ramboll Assistant Project
Manager Operational Excellence
According to Sylvia Sciuchetti, Ramboll Group Senior Consultant:
“Having experienced IT suppliers fail in supporting our project governance and reporting
ambitions, I was reluctant to move away from our effective spreadsheet solution. Importantly,
my stakeholder community had firmly adopted the spreadsheets.
The big problem was that we could not scale this beyond ~100 projects or add new features.
GLCs promise of keeping the spreadsheets, improving them and connecting them into an
enterprise database sounded almost too good to be true! Their approach and technology had
been proven in smaller projects, but we were going to be their first global client.
After a busy 4 months we were live, with a fully tailored global solution and all stakeholders
engaged. Just one-month post go-live the results are already impressive;
• The time to compile our monthly board pack has dropped from 10 days to 3 days.
• The effort to chase missing data and fix errors had dropped by 90%.
This is only the beginning. I am excited about the future as we add many more projects and new
features. It’s wonderful not to be restricted by inflexible software applications.”
9. Contact Us
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Sean Blencowe, CEO
sean.blencowe@greenlightchange.com
07896 557172
Ian Goldsmid, Marketing Director
Ian.Goldsmid@greenlightchange.com
07785 313522