Retail Case Studies
Discount apparel retailer
Collaborative designed a framework for the company's distributed application environment. The framework involves people, process and product analysis of code promotion, change management, COTS application life cycle, quality control and development best practices. As a result, the company enjoys effective management of its complex data center services.
Global entertainment company
Collaborative helped a global entertainment company develop a plan to improve visibility and tracking of its memorabilia assets. Specifically, Collaborative developed and designed a vendor selection process, warehouse layout and global venue reconciliation plan. The team developed a comprehensive plan to help the company establish a process to account for all of its assets. It included extension of current models, RFID technology, a gap analysis, and identification of required technology and business processes for warehouse operations. Today, the client can consult a comprehensive, clear and accurate document that outlines the steps to asset reconciliation
Global food provider
A global food provider’s IT portal group had difficulty meeting project deadlines and budgets. Consequently, its ability to roll out key functionality and meet customer expectations was limited.
Collaborative helped the group enhance its scope definition, project priorities and resource forecasting. The team improved employees’ understanding of their roles and responsibilities. To do so, Collaborative assessed the client’s project management capabilities and tools. The focus included governance, integrated plans/schedules, financials, resources, infrastructure and communications.
Collaborative made recommendations about people, strategy, process and project management, and created an implementation plan to help the client begin.
The team identified key opportunities to improve the group’s delivery, governance and portfolio/program/project management. Specifically, the group has revisited its business strategy and communicated it throughout the enterprise. It has also revised its project portfolio, and aligned with business needs. Additionally, the group has defined roles and responsibilities.