Advisory
Services
Unlocking your
information’s full potential
The Challenge
Venture helps companies transform the way they use and handle
information.
We advise executives, managers and business users on how best
to meet the challenges of finding, accessing, trusting and assuring
information that is crucial to business decisions. Common problems
include:
• Need to break down silos of information and bring them together
to support better decision making
• Inaccessibility and ‘loss’ of past information
• Inability to find the right information quickly
• Duplication of information in different systems and processes,
often inaccurately
• Lack of return on information management systems
investment
• Inability to support collaboration between and within teams
Organisations are increasingly recognising that improved
information management can address issues of business
performance, risk, compliance and cost control.
How We Can Help
As a leading UK independent Information Management (IM) services
company we have the skills and expertise to identify and deliver the
change needed to address today’s information management challenges
and meet your business goals.
Our experience covers the range of information in use in business today,
from fully structured to unstructured information. Services include:
• IM Assessment - current state, requirements, future state, roadmaps
• Information Governance - policies, procedures, roles and
responsibilities
Venture’s Information Management framework brings together IM’s key
elements and ensures solutions address the components necessary to
realise sustainable value from IM.
Pragmatic Solutions
Our advice is based on years of hands-on delivery of IM services.
Venture consultants will make practical and realistic recommendations
designed to deliver sustainable long-term results. As experienced
practitioners we can support implementation with programme and
change management leading on to long term operation.
• Information Management Strategy - information management to
business alignment
• Business Case – justification, investment return
• Information Architecture - tools, people and process
• Process Improvement – streamlining, re-design, improved
effectiveness
• Technology Services – requirements, selection, implementation &
value realisation
Venture Information Management Ltd.
Wessex House, Drake Avenue, Staines, Middlesex, TW18 2AP
t +44 (0)1784 224100
f +44 (0)1784 224131
www.venture.co.uk
info@venture.co.uk
Case Study Summaries
Recent Consulting Engagements have included:
Information Management Policy & Strategy electricity generating company
We delivered an a information management policy to mandate change
in the way information is stored and managed in the enterprise, and to
support the implementation of the enterprise IM strategy.
Electronic document management system
value realisation strategy – large UK based
independent oil and gas producer
Electronic documents and records
management requirements assessment –
methanol production company
Following upgrade of financial and enterprise management systems the
company recognised it was over-reliant on hardcopy and shared drives
for documents. The company asked Venture to assess its requirements
for electronic document and records management and to define a
specification for a new system.
Electronic documents and records
management system selection process –
methanol production company
Venture consulting analysed the way the company’s EDRM system
was being used in the context of the company’s business processes
and vision for a collaborative and information sharing environment.
We produced a roadmap of prioritised actions to embed usage of
the system in key information flows and to ensure realisation of the
company’s investment in the technology over its lifetime.
IM strategy and business alignment –
subsurface modelling company
Our client recognised that it had outgrown its original ad-hoc information
systems, and in order to support continued growth it had to re-engineer
the way information was managed and processed in-house, and how its
products were delivered to its clients.
Venture worked with the CTO and chief data- and GIS- managers to
understand business processes and workflows, and the way information
was analysed within the framework of the business strategy and
technology vision. We delivered a new architecture for internal systems,
which the company has adopted, and are assisting the company to
develop a core data model design.
Following the success of the requirements definition and systems
specification, our client asked us to create a set of weighted assessment
criteria for a system, and then to draft a request for proposal document.
Based on this, we were then asked to handle the system selection
process for the company, including identifying possible vendors,
holding demonstrations and conducting communications. We also gave
commercial and technical advice during the assessment process.
To find out more about advisory services
contact Venture on +44 (0) 1784 224100 or
send us an email: info@venture.co.uk
Data management assessment –
Global multi-national oil company
Middle East business unit
Our client has a long history of engagement in the
Middle East. The unit conducts projects across
the region, often relying on past information. The
unit recognised that a lack of access to trusted
previous information, and lack on confidence that all
available information was being used, was hampering
operational effectiveness.
Venture were asked to assess the current state of
data and information management for the unit, and
to recommend how to increase the availability and
accessibility of the legacy information, and to defined
systems for managing information in future to ensure the
accessibility and long-term value of its information is maintained.
Venture Information Management Ltd.
Wessex House, Drake Avenue, Staines, Middlesex, TW18 2AP
t +44 (0)1784 224100
f +44 (0)1784 224131
www.venture.co.uk
info@venture.co.uk