Where were they?
In 2006, Centrica Energy completed an extensive review of its business strategy, organisation, operational processes and systems. As a result the Atlas transformation programme was initiated, a two year programme involving multiple releases of business and IT change. The aims are to enhance operational capabilities, underpin the business growth agenda and enable improved optimisation of the portfolio of contracts and assets.
How did Berkeley help?
In early 2007, as the programme entered into its delivery phase, Berkeley took on key delivery roles within the programme management team. Over the next twelve months, Berkeley helped to guide and shape a delivery agenda that touched the entirety of the Trading organization from Demand Forecasting and Portfolio Optimisation through to Trading and Risk Management.
This is a large programme by any measure and the largest ever undertaken by Centrica Energy involving over 80 people from 3 suppliers and the company’s own in-house IT function. Add to that over 200 business people supporting and relying on the success of the project to improve the way they work.
Consultants Pete Basham and Helen Williams.
As a team, the programme successfully delivered 6 business solutions supporting the Gas and Power operation and an underlying integration layer to provide industry strength operation, control and resilience. Alongside the first release, the team shaped up the subsequent delivery schedule and built out sustainable new capability within the IT organisation to take the programme forward.
Where are they now?
With the successful delivery of a new trading transaction pipe, the team has now set their sights on getting the solutions into the hands of staff across the UK and European business units. The programme still has a number of years to run and complete the transformation but the first release has demonstrated the benefits and proven Centrica Energy’s ability to deliver large and complex programmes.