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Case study: Building Cloud Based Solution

  • 03 Sep 2019

The Client

SGOSS – Governors for Schools exists to improve educational standards by finding, nurturing and supporting a committed network of governors, connecting schools across England, supported by their business and university partnerships.

The Challenge

SGOSS had a deep desire to gain competitive advantage through improved data & analytics capabilities to support schools in engaging governors with specialist skills.

This drove the requirement to review and change: business processes; personnel; pricing and products (training / e-learning) and the need to formulate the correct KPI’s and reports to effectively manage the re-modelled organisation. Additionally, SGOSS wished to build new functionality into their systems to enable automated matching of individuals to schools.

Ammonite’s Solution

Momentum – Ammonite’s Senior Consultant carried out a full review of SGOSS data strategy, processes, resources and technology. Identifying opportunities for new capability and efficiencies to reduce costs and increase revenue opportunities; for example identification of intensive and repeatable manual processes to eliminate or automate to free skilled resource to focus on value-add client facing activities.

Optimise – A team of 2 Ammonite technical consultants worked closely with SGOSS employees to automate processes & build a new cloud based solution to enable self service dashboards. Ammonite’s Senior Consultant refined the data taxonomy to simplify the customer journey reducing drop out and increasing acquisition.

Autonomy – Ammonite hired an in-house developer with the right skills to take the solution forward. Our senior consultant continued as a long term board advisor & mentor to the wider company to keep on track.

The Business Benefit

Complete transformation of SGOSS capability and efficiency to reduce costs and increase revenue opportunities. Harmonisation of process, tech capabilities, and people towards well defined business planning and objectives.

The result being an estimated reduction in data related costs of 23%.

Client Comment

“Ammonite have been committed to delivering and/or advising on the right solution for SGOSS at every stage. They are very personable, with a great mix of being spot on with advice and caring about the people/organisation.” Louise Cooper, CEO.

 

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