Middle Eastern Sovereign Wealth Fund - UAE
Client
Developed an outsourced Big Data intelligence ecosystem strategy, execution plan, and joint venture with a large Sovereign Wealth Fund in the Middle East. The ecosystem utilized the integration of expertise, product offerings, and best practices from a consortium of blue-chip technology, data science, investment, and legal expertise. The ecosystem was designed to align meaningful and divest meaningless growth assets respectively, and develop a constant feed of intelligence to guide growth strategy for assets they were retaining. These assets resided in global business sectors such as: Retail, Banking and Financial Services, Media & Entertainment, Mobile Telecommunications, Manufacturing, Automotive, Consumer Airline transportation/cargo, Energy, and Real Estate.
The result
Built consortium and partnership model for infrastructure, software, and execution of theBig Data intelligence ecosystem – IBM, Siemens, SAP, Oracle, Experian, Accenture and PublicisGroupe. Built integrated intelligence governance and ownership plan. Recommended firstdeployment of the intelligence ecosystem into the Media & Entertainment business sector assets.The system resulted in reallocating over US $410m into Media & Entertainment assets that yieldedsignificant growth revenue at increased profitability for new media assets from the original assetsthat were divested
The biggest challenge was that Arguzo was not utilizing technology properly. Too much of the work was still being recorded manually, which meant that the numbers took a long time to note down and then to be analyzed. Live data was also not available and decisions can only be made after all the required data and been received. This was holding Arguzo back; they knew they could corner more of the market if they had the ability to be more mobile. The work addressed three critical issues for Pharm Ltd.:
The solution WP consulting came up with combined cutting edge technology with real world practicality. Everyone knew that the systems had to be updated, the real challenge was updating them without disrupting the whole organization in a negative way. The solution was to introduce proper workload management done through computers, while providing mobile platforms to the stakeholders.
3box. Culture and different internal policies all have a significant impact on employee retention and engagement. This extremely important for growing businesses and start-ups. For sustainable growth, a big-picture strategy managed by HR professionals or service providers will be key. This allowed the workers to be involved in the job instead of feeling like they had been made redundant by technology.