Hitachi Consulting
Hitachi Consulting is the global business and IT consulting company of Hitachi, Ltd., and delivers proven business strategies and technology solutions. Their focus market sectors in the UK are Financial Services, the Public Sector and the Technology market. Globally, they work in over 12 different sectors.
Hitachi Consulting UK offers the agility of a smaller firm, the stability of a larger firm and the innovation that comes from being part of Hitachi. As a consultancy it is small enough for each client to be crucial, while being part of the global Hitachi group provides financial stability and flexibility.
With a balanced view of strategy, people, process and technology, Hitachi Consulting UK works with organisations to understand their unique business needs, and to develop and implement solutions that provide measurable value quickly.
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Hitachi Consulting completes successful migration of Virgin Mobile’s core operations to Virgin Media’s existing Oracle E-Business Suite applications.Virgin Mobile launched its operations as a mobile virtual network operator in November 1999. Today the company has over four million customers and is the UK’s leading visual network operator.
Project Objectives:
To enable a move to a sharedservice centre, Virgin Mobile needed to integrate its financials, HR and payroll systems with Virgin Media’s....
Hitachi Consulting supports major telecomms merger with full Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system solutionImplement an integrated ERP system across finance, supply chain, HR and payroll that would:
Support business and IT synergies
Be implemented in conjunction with complex business integration activities
Meet existing and emerging business requirements
Maximise internal knowledge transfer
Support the integration to a shared...
Ensuring a ‘hassle free’ Payroll year end for EurostarEurostar is the high-speed rail service directly linking the UK to France and Belgium via the Channel Tunnel. It started operating in 1994, providing city centre to city centre services.
Atkins - case studyProject Objectives:
Extend Atkins use of OracleHRMS and Payroll to its Middle East and India operations
Facilitate a standard build across the business by maintaining the Oracle HRMS and Payroll system’s high level design
Deviate from core functionality only when local legislation required
Train key staff on using the new...
Hitachi Consulting completes successful migration of Peel Ports’ legacy mainframe applications to Microsoft.NET environmentPeel Ports is Britain’s second largest group of ports and includes Clydeport, Heysham, Port of Liverpool, Manchester Ship Canal and Medway Ports. It also includes container terminals in Belfast and Dublin and one of the largest short-sea shipping operations in Europe.
easyJet’s new application frameworkProject Objectives:
Deliver a robust, fully tested and extensible application framework that would support Web 2.0 technology
Create a common and consistent set of integrated enterprise service components
Reduce third-party maintenance and support costs
Work with a strategic partner to implement the project in a collaborative...
Local Authority Carbon Management ProgrammeThe Carbon Trust needed skilled consultancy support to deliver ambitious reductions in CO2 emissions among local authorities. Hitachi Consulting worked with 45 local authorities to identify annual emission savings of nearly 300,000tonnes of CO2 and cost savings of £27million per annum.
It is widely accepted that the consequences of increasing...
Integrating two businesses, with different processes, systems and cultures, whilst reducing from eight geographically diverse locations to three, is a tough challenge. Add in the fact that in three years only 300 out of 1500 employees will be doing the same job in the same location and the complexity begins to mount. Supplement these requirements...
Redcats - Risk and RewardHitachi was approached by redcats at a time when the home shopping market is under enormous pressure. In the ‘old days’, ‘Agents’ for the catalogue found customers, took orders and collected payments. Customers were family and friends and payment defaulting was an uncommon occurrence. Times have changed. The Internet has...
In 2004, responding to targets set by the Government’s Efficiency Review and the DTI, the Competition Commission undertook a major change programme to make efficiency savings and refocus its culture on efficiency and continuous improvement. The Commission has a self-imposed stretch target of 20% cost savings, to be achieved by 2007-08. With...
Hitachi Consulting worked collaboratively with the client to release a significant number of experienced underwriting people. This enabled the migration to a new insurance systems platform (AIS) and introduced efficiency improvements to the client’s underwriting operations.
Hitachi Consulting and Abbey planned and designed a programme for change to introduce new ways of working and behaviours to support the future operating model for branch telephony.
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A UK Retail Banking ‘Mystery Shopping’ Exercise
“No bank is the clear winner at using the financial review process as a strategic sales tool; several opportunities remain unexploited” Neil Whittaker, Vice President Retail Banking, Hitachi Consulting
UK Retail Banking is not an easy place to make money, particularly in the...
The Recession: Impacts and Consequences for Financial Services Business Leaders
Recession is here. But its causes and effects are different from those of the recessions of 1991 and 2002. It will be sharp, and deep, and leave some long lasting effects in the way businesses run, organise and trade. It will come to be known as the Suspicion...
What is ‘Agility’?
Agility is the ability of an organisation in whole, or in part as required, to transform itself competently in order to manage or exploit a new situation. Systemic agility is achieved by preparing people culturally for change and structuring flexibility for change into the processes, systems and infrastructure that they...
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