Context and assignment
Data maturity scale to secure the group's acquisitions.
Saint-Gobain regularly acquires companies whose data integration proves long and complex. Visian designs a framework to assess targets' data maturity and an automatic scoring system. Deployment of a group-wide reference framework, change management and training.
The challenge
What was at stake
For Saint-Gobain, the assignment covered: “Data maturity scale to secure the group's acquisitions”. This kind of programme involves business departments, IT and data teams at the same time: it has to deliver quickly without weakening existing systems, and leave behind practices that hold once the assignment ends.
The relationship
Visian at Saint-Gobain
Saint-Gobain relies on Visian to objectively assess the data maturity of acquired companies and speed up their integration.
Expertise involved: Data strategy, maturity assessment, project management, PMO.
Deliverables
- Data maturity assessment methodology for M&A deals
- Automated scoring system for targets
- Common framework rolled out across subsidiaries
- Project management and PMO
Team and duration
Duration, team and scope
- Duration: multi-phase engagement.
- Team: a multidisciplinary Visian team, sized to each phase, covering data strategy, maturity assessment, project management, PMO.
- Scope: Data maturity assessment methodology for M&A deals; Automated scoring system for targets; Common framework rolled out across subsidiaries; Project management and PMO.
Approach
How Visian worked
- Scope: workshops with the departments involved, assessment of the existing set-up, prioritisation and deliverables approved in steering committee.
- Build: delivery in short iterations, shared milestones and project governance with the client teams.
- Handover: adoption support, documentation, skills transfer to in-house teams and move to run.
Results
Measured results
Scope
Methods and technologies
Expertise involved