References

Working for banks, insurances, and other companies our consultants have enabled our clients to achieve their goals in the following projects (selection):

Global Efficiency Initiative
Coordination of a bank’s efficiency initiative to reduce IT costs per employee, enhance the current inventory management processes, allow for transparency, and improve overall governance.

New IT Platform – Strategy Definition and Implementation
Development of the bank’s new IT platform strategy. Build up a new IT platform with a common service level to improve operation efficiency, hardware utilisation, and client service offerings.

IT Operations Outsourcing
Prepare outsourcing of an insurance’s complete IT operations organisation to a third party. Coordination of due diligence, contracts, and SLAs with external provider.

Investment Governance Portfolio Management
Implementation and coordination of a bank wide investment governance process to increase the return on investment and improve budget allocation.

Global Portfolio, Project and Resource Management Tool
Implementation, rollout, and sustainable adaptation of a new project portfolio management application. Simplification of existing process and tool landscape for project portfolio and resource management. Optimisation of information quality and flow for top management and other stakeholders.

Cross-Asset Trading Applications
Coordination of multiple projects in the FX cross-assets sector for enhancement or new development of front office applications and front to end processes. Integration of new applications into existing landscape, re-engineering of user interfaces, re-design of process flows, and deployment of enhancement releases to global application landscape.

Infrastructure and Processes for Communication Journaling
Design, build, and deploy a technology infrastructure to enable the journaling and retention of all electronic communications worldwide. Definition of processes and assurance that all relevant information is stored to a searchable data archive.

New Products, Terms, and Conditions Application
Decommissioning of the existing system and implementation of a new application for core banking functionalities. Proof-of-concept for the adoption of a third party standard software and a new architectural framework. Business analysis and requirements management of periodical encashment for payments, single, and custodian accounts.

Global Advisory Tool for External Asset Managers

Coordinate user acceptance testing and sign-off process of an application for external asset managers to create investment recommendations on the basis of customer’s risk profile. Define acceptance criteria and manage all verification activities.

Human Resources Transformation
Streamline structure, processes, and capabilities of existing organisation to optimally support line and project managers.

Synthetic Test Data
Development of systems and processes to generate synthetic test data. Providing data to offshore test environments, while remaining compliant with Swiss banking confidentiality laws.

Web Entry Server High Availability Setup
Improvement of internet-based customer services to state-of-the-art high availability. Realisation of an advanced failover concept and server security environment, optimization of maintenance, and preparation of infrastructure for global operation.

Cloud-Computing / Cloud-Services
Definition of a global database hosting strategy and implementation of a bank internal, highly available database which is cloud based on standardized service offerings such as self-service and transparent billing models.

Artist Management
Organizational consulting and realization of two CD productions as well as the tour management for a music band.

Business Transformation
Coordination of the development for an approach to transforme a company in the service sector, in order to sustainably respond to changing situations in the market. Modernization of structures, processes as well as business coaching of the newly created organization.