Professional programme and project management in Ireland by Azimuth management consulting

What Bank of Ireland CIO Anne Weatherston says about AMC and their work in IT Strategy for BOI.

“Azimuth Management Consulting were responsible for defining and leading the exercise to define the 3-5 year IT roadmaps for our Retail Ireland business. This was a core input to our IT Strategy and IT investment plans.”

What Irish Life & Permanent Head of Group Procurement Gerry Ebbs says about AMC on their recent involvement in the selection and implementation of the Group HR system.

“Azimuth Management Consulting was responsible for the selection of the Group HR system.

Their approach was structured and efficient, using appropriate project structures, processes and tools to define the requirement, prepare the tender documents, evaluate the replies, interact with the vendors and eventually select the package.

They organised the project is such a way that ensured clear lines of communication and stakeholder buy-in.

Their vendor evaluation and scoring tools made the whole process simpler and made the eventual selection decision a lot easier. They finished the project with a complete implementation plan and budget.

The project was professionally undertaken from start to finish.”

What Bank of Ireland CIO Anne Weatherston says about AMC’s work on the IT Operating Model.

“Azimuth Management Consulting (AMC) delivered where others failed to impress. We spoke to a number of the major consulting houses about how they would support us in the design and implementation of a new IT Operating model, and were not impressed with the content or approaches being proposed. AMC delivered a comprehensive process based on industry best practice frameworks and methods. They worked extremely well with our Business and IT Executive, and brought our senior IT management team along with them through each step of the process. They delivered a complete Services and Organisation design along with a transition plan for delivery.”

What Permanent TSB Chief Executive Denis Casey says about AMC and its Migration capabilities.

"Azimuth Management Consulting Limited ("AMC") were a key contributor to the success of Irish Life Retail's Horizon business transformation programme. A key part of this programme was the implementation of a new Life system and migration of the existing book of business onto the new platform. AMC were responsible for the migration aspect of the project (almost 600K policies from our two existing legacy systems), along with the de-duplication of the client database and the decommissioning of the old systems. AMC ran the project from end-to-end, from the initial scoping and pricing, through the partner/vendor evaluation process, selection and hire of the team, build and test of the ETL software (used to migrate the policy and client data), and eventual decommission of the old systems. The team demonstrated outstanding commitment, attention to detail, technical expertise and professionalism throughout the project. Migration projects are notoriously complex and high risk and I have no hesitation in saying that AMC's contribution was absolutely critical to the successful completion of our migration."

What Irish Life and Permanent CIO Brendan Healy says about AMC on their recent feasibility study on Banking System consolidation

“Azimuth Management Consulting (AMC) bid against a number of other major consultancy houses. The AMC offering was by far the most comprehensive and best value. This work was carried out extremely efficiently over an 8 week period, with clear decision points, accurate and timely provision of information on which to make key decisions, and clear representation of the associated issues, risks, costs and savings . AMC set up and managed a simple and pragmatic governance process, that ensured all Stakeholders (Business and IT) were kept up to date at all times.”

What the Executive head of the Irish Life and Permanent CIO-Office Michael Reidy says

“Azimuth Management Consulting used a very structured and methodical approach based on a series of models to gather and analysedata, and to present meaningful and clear information about the scenarios and options available to us. This made the final decision far easier to make, and provided a clear and auditable series of steps and information that can be utilised at any point in the future”

What Bank of Ireland CIO Anne Weatherston says about AMC and their role as Interim Executive.

“Dave Shanahan filled the post of IT Delivery and Support Executive for a period of 9 months. From day one he brought both energy, experience and ideas to the Executive team, and his in-depth knowledge of IT, finance, general management and business practices were invaluable.”