Coeus drove the design, build & implementation of a new, customer-centric digital renewable energy business.
Challenge
A traditional global energy provider was seeking to enter the Retail energy market, and previous acquisition attempts had failed. A decision was taken to build a new business to be based on cost effective Digital technologies, driving state of the art Customer Experience.Market entry had to be rapid, driving aggressive timescales. Coeus was asked to manage all aspects of the creation of the new business, starting with the RFP process, design, build & implementation.Our ApproachCoeus used its extensive Retail energy knowledge to define an Agile delivery plan and worked with the Client Executive team to define and shape the programme.
Using our deep Digital knowledge, we identified suitable partners and provided sourcing and commercial insight to drive the RFP process and secure cost effective deal.
Additionally, we used our Agile delivery approach to design and build the core platform and customer experiences. To deliver this, we worked with the Client’s global teams to ensure the solution could be reused and rolled at globally with maximum re-use.
Key Deliverables
- Detailed programme / Delivery plan
- RFP strategy and associated documentation
- Modern customer journey documentation
- Detailed cost model to validate Business Case
- Sprint plans
- Modular platform build, enabling continuous business testing
- Up-skilling of Client team, organizational design and coaching of all Executive team members
- Creation and hand-over of the new business
Benefits
Coeus enabled the Client to enter the market within the desired timeframe, with a flexible delivery approach that worked throughout the global organisation.
Coeus drove the commercial deal outcomes to secure the best possible pricing and modern customer journeys at low cost.
Coeus delivered an Agile operating model and ensured Client skills / teams were upgraded to enable them to take on the operation of the new business.
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