Yellow Pages Gain Control
When it comes to connecting New Zealanders to the answers they are looking for, Yellow Pages are in a league of their own.
Ensuring they were getting the most out of their technology and product development spend, on the other hand, had proved to be very difficult; a challenge that is all too familiar to most large businesses.
With more pressure coming on already scarce resources, Yellow Pages needed better control of their project portfolios and resources to ensure the company’s efforts were delivering the maximum possible value.
Sentient Project Portfolio Management (PPM) proved to be just the answer they were looking for.
When Yellow Pages discovered the Sentient PPM package, they were surprised to find a flexible solution suite that not only met their immediate needs, but also offered advanced functionality they hadn’t thought possible from an off the shelf product.
According to Yellow Pages CIO, Karl Wright, choosing Sentient PPM was an easy decision after witnessing it in action at Telecom NZ: “The huge breadth of functionality was clearly going to meet both our short and long term needs”.
“Previously, implementing other enterprise level solutions into our environment had been a very costly and difficult process. We expected that a package as comprehensive as Sentient would be similarly expensive and time consuming to configure and implement, an expectation that proved to be unfounded”.
Sentient has provided Yellow Pages with a platform for effectively managing all aspects of their project portfolios. From managing initiative roadmaps, assessing and prioritizing projects, through to progress reporting and ultimately post implementation reviews, the system keeps track of the many different projects as they progress through the lifecycle.
People across the business are able to add initiatives to their project portfolios, which are then assessed and prioritized centrally, ensuring funds and resources are allocated to the projects that will most benefit the business. Project and portfolio managers forecast the resources that will be required to complete the work; this enables aggregated resource demand forecasting, which allows the company to optimize its permanent, contract and third party resource levels.
Sentient has had a huge impact at the Senior Management level: “The package has provided the leadership team with unprecedented visibility into planning, implementation and tracking of business strategies across the various business units. The system has enforced adherence to our processes and really cemented the Yellow Pages accountability model. As Senior Managers, we now have an accurate, objective view of our projects, portfolios and resources, meaning we can confidently make the decisions we need to”.
Yellow Pages Gain Control
When it comes to connecting New Zealanders to the answers they are looking for, Yellow Pages are in a league of their own.
Ensuring they were getting the most out of their technology and product development spend, on the other hand, had proved to be very difficult; a challenge that is all too familiar to most large businesses.
With more pressure coming on already scarce resources, Yellow Pages needed better control of their project portfolios and resources to ensure the company’s efforts were delivering the maximum possible value.
Sentient Project Portfolio Management (PPM) proved to be just the answer they were looking for.
When Yellow Pages discovered the Sentient PPM package, they were surprised to find a flexible solution suite that not only met their immediate needs, but also offered advanced functionality they hadn’t thought possible from an off the shelf product.
According to Yellow Pages CIO, Karl Wright, choosing Sentient PPM was an easy decision after witnessing it in action at Telecom NZ: “The huge breadth of functionality was clearly going to meet both our short and long term needs”.
“Previously, implementing other enterprise level solutions into our environment had been a very costly and difficult process. We expected that a package as comprehensive as Sentient would be similarly expensive and time consuming to configure and implement, an expectation that proved to be unfounded”.
Sentient has provided Yellow Pages with a platform for effectively managing all aspects of their project portfolios. From managing initiative roadmaps, assessing and prioritizing projects, through to progress reporting and ultimately post implementation reviews, the system keeps track of the many different projects as they progress through the lifecycle.
People across the business are able to add initiatives to their project portfolios, which are then assessed and prioritized centrally, ensuring funds and resources are allocated to the projects that will most benefit the business. Project and portfolio managers forecast the resources that will be required to complete the work; this enables aggregated resource demand forecasting, which allows the company to optimize its permanent, contract and third party resource levels.
Sentient has had a huge impact at the Senior Management level: “The package has provided the leadership team with unprecedented visibility into planning, implementation and tracking of business strategies across the various business units. The system has enforced adherence to our processes and really cemented the Yellow Pages accountability model. As Senior Managers, we now have an accurate, objective view of our projects, portfolios and resources, meaning we can confidently make the decisions we need to”.