Project or programme leadership
End-to-end responsibility for structuring, leading and embedding a business-critical change initiative.
Implementation Leadership & Advisory
Connect business needs, product data and delivery.
Digital Fields leads or strengthens implementations in which product data is business-critical.
Depending on the need, the engagement can range from analysis, requirements and decision support to full programme leadership, data mapping, process design, supplier collaboration and the establishment of governance.
Whatever the scope, the objective is always the same: to ensure that business needs, data requirements, accountabilities and technical solutions work together in practice and continue to do so after go-live.
A flexible engagement
From qualified support to hands-on leadership.
The need determines the role. Digital Fields can step in where the initiative needs the most experience and coordination.
Leadership of a defined workstream
Responsibility for a business, product data, process, migration or supplier collaboration workstream.
Senior advisory support
Qualified support to an internal project manager, sponsor or steering committee at critical decisions and deliveries.
The client side
When a system project needs a strong business counterpart.
Implementation teams and system suppliers can build a technical solution, but the business must be able to define what the data means, which processes the solution should support, and which quality requirements and accountabilities should apply.
When the client wants to retain ownership and lead the change internally, Digital Fields can provide client-side and implementation experience that may be missing in-house.
This gives internal decision-makers qualified support at critical choices without requiring the organisation to outsource the entire leadership responsibility.
Support may include
What it takes to make the solution work in practice.
The scope is shaped around the initiative’s stage, risks and internal capacity.
- Structuring and quality-assuring the approach, scope and decision points.
- Requirements management and dialogue with suppliers and implementation teams.
- Process design and translation of business needs into data and solution requirements.
- Planning for testing, data migration, rollout and transition to operations.
- Risk assessment and independent review of critical deliverables.
- Support to the internal project manager, sponsor and steering committee.
- Establishment of data governance, roles and accountability.
- Change management and adoption of new ways of working.
Shared objective
An implementation the business can use and govern.
The engagement should do more than help the project reach go-live. It should establish clear ways of working, accountabilities and product data structures that continue to function in operations.
When this support is particularly relevant
- Before selecting a solution or supplier.
- When an initiative lacks a strong business counterpart.
- When the data, process and system workstreams have started to drift apart.
- Before migration, rollout or transition to operations.