Resulting Assist Oil & Gas Drilling Firm KCA Deutag to Streamline SAP Delivery
Industry
Oil & Gas
Challenge
Facing budget constraints and mounting delivery pressure, KCAD needed to assess the effectiveness of their IT applications team and make meaningful improvements to support both BAU and project delivery.
Results
Resulting reviewed the SAP CoE operating model, provided interim leadership to implement improvements, and coached internal team members, resulting in faster, more predictable delivery and long-term capability uplift.
Key Product
Improve, CoE
About KCA Deutag
KCA Deutag delivers safe, reliable and efficient drilling operations in the world’s most harsh and challenging environments.
Where possible we aim to offer our clients total end-to-end solutions from innovative design and manufacture through to trouble-free operations.
The Challenge
Due to the downturn in the Oil sector, KCAD had been operating their IT under strict financial constraints. With increasing pressure on IT to deliver, Resulting were asked to review the IT applications team and their effectiveness.
Resulting Solution
Resulting carried out a short assignment to review the delivery of the applications team from a BAU and project perspective. This included interviewing senior stakeholders and providing recommendations on changes to the CoE operating model and ways of working.
A number of key gaps and recommendations was made to enhance the quality and timeliness of IT delivery.
Benefits Delivered
- KCAD restructured their IT function to provide greater clarity on roles and responsibilities based on Resulting advisory.
- Resulting provided interim leadership of Applications Delivery to implement an improvement plan and transition to a long-term successor.
- Resulting provided coaching to KCAD team members to drive self-sufficiency in the SAP delivery team.
- The client is benefitting from faster and greater certainty of delivery of both BAU and IT application projects.

