| Phase 1
Ensure the buy-in of the key participants of the project
into the objectives and the project approach
Objectives
• Mobilise the Senior Management and key participants,
and confirm the objectives and approach of the project
• Confirm the scope and project logistics : list
of locations to visit and personnel to interview
• Finalize the project team and precise role of
each member
• Understand the customer's context (Business
drivers, Strategy and plans, External business environment,
Business and IT constraints)
Key Activities and Working Methods
• Present the objectives and the approach to
the key participants of the project (Kick-off meeting)
• Collect relevant information related to Business
Strategy, IT plans and current IT architecture
• Conduct interviews with a large population at
customer (Executives, Management team, End users, IT
people)
Deliverables
• Project Launching Communication Note
• Project quality plan that includes scope, project
charter, role, detailed work-plan, committee meetings
schedule, etc
• Focus interviews sheets and progress reporting
format
Phase 2.1:
Identify business priorities and its IT impact
Objectives
• Identify the major business product and service
opportunities/priorities for each business line based
on a shared vision of the company's business strategy
• Determine the IT/IS impacts linked to business
needs
Key Activities and Working Methods
• Analyse results of the focus interviews
• Review and analyse all related information on
Business Strategy (business plans)
• Organise and facilitate workshops with business
and IT managers to define target IT products and services
needed to support business strategy
Deliverables
• Target Business and IT products and services
differentiation matrix
• IT strategy guiding principles
Phase 2.2:
Assess the current IS/IT situation
Objectives
• Depict the current functional and technical
architecture
• Analyse existing legacy systems and outline
tactical approach for upgrading/replacing current systems
• Evaluate the ITD environment (development tools,
organisation model, testing processes, tools and methodologies)
Key Activities and Working Methods
• Develop the existing IT architecture (functional
and technical)
• Perform a system quality analysis of the legacy
Application Systems from both technical and functional
perspectives according to current and future business
needs, whilst identifying existing IT components which
require upgrade or replacement
• Analyse all existing documentation on the current
IT situation (ITD organisation model, testing processes,
tools and methodologies...)
• Identify improvement opportunities and evaluate
its corresponding cost and benefits
• Organise and facilitate workshops with end-users
and IT people on the legacy Systems
Deliverables
• Existing functional and technical architecture
• SWOT (Strength, Weaknesses, Opportunities and
Threats) analysis on the legacy Systems
• Key recommendations on the current ITD environment
(organisation model, testing processes, tools and methodologies…)
• Draft Business Case of main improvement opportunities
Phase 2.3:
Formulate the "state of the art" Oil &
Gas technology vision
Objectives
• Identify the advanced Oil & Gas technology
trends
• Provide a "state of art" of future
technology vision
Key Activities and Working Methods
• Define the objectives and the scope of a survey
focusing on technology trends
• Capitalise on our most recent references and
knowledge
Deliverables
• Industry specific Technology Vision Survey
that outlines best business practices
Phase 3:
Develop the IT target vision, evolution scenarios and
business case
Objectives
• Define the IT target vision taking into account
the specificities of each business line
• Build up the evolution scenarios and corresponding
business cases
Key Activities and Working Methods
• Based on Phase 2 preliminary conclusions,
• Identify the legacy components to evolve or
replace, the new technologies and packaged based solutions
which might be used
• Identify the needs of realignment of the organisation
within ITD
• Build and share straw model of evolution scenarios
with both Business and IT managers
• Organise and facilitate a workshop with senior
management to select the preferred scenario
• Target functional and technical architecture
that reflects the proposed strategic IT environment
Deliverables
• Description of 2 scenarios with business cases
showing the related stages in terms of costs and benefits
• Selection of a preferred scenario with a set
of guidelines defining the functional domains requiring
further investigation
Phase 4:
Develop the strategic Action Plan
Objectives
• Move from a defined IT strategy to a set of
relevant projects aligned with the preferred scenario
and addressing the IT organisation, architecture and
the three other operational domains
• Prioritise the projects and define short and
medium terms action plan validated by the Senior Management
Key Activities and Working Methods
• According to the preferred scenario, identification
of the major projects and development of overall action
plans (short-term and medium-term)
• Link the action plans with the budgetary figures
• Update the 3 year vision and related action
plans based on Senior Management feedback
Deliverables
• Set of prioritised and described projects to
be undertaken
• Transformation Map
• Short-Term and Medium-Term action plan validated
by the Steering Committee
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