CASE STUDIES
Shibumi Case Studies
See how Shibumi helps deliver strategy execution success across a wide array of strategic programs
Post-Merger Integration
Cost Transformation
Robotic Process Automation
Investment Governance
CASE STUDY
Post-Merger Integration
Strategic goal: Drive major revenue and cost synergies from a cross-border acquisition
Strategy Execution Challenge
- An international acquisition, with key participants on different continents
- Target savings >40% of deal value over the first four years
- 100+ initiative teams, 50-person program team, with key information managed across fragmented tools
- Need for quick decisions on sensitive topics such as headcount, plant closings and site consolidation
Shibumi Impact
- Ramped-up program-wide value delivery process in less than 2 weeks, building momentum with quick wins and early impact
- Enabled complex program with full PMO transparency and automated production of governance reporting
- Established a robust framework and metrics for post-PMI value maintenance
CASE STUDY
Cost Transformation
Strategic goal: Complete large-scale cost reduction without disrupting business operations.
Strategy Execution Challenge
- Urgent need to quickly identify and deliver $100M+ recurring annual savings
- Scale of required savings could only be met with 1000+ discrete initiatives across entire enterprise
- Significant competitive challenges for base business, making avoidance of disruptions critical
Shibumi Impact
- Supported data-driven process that could quickly scale across entire enterprise
- Enabled flexible team iteration and refinement, driving to rapid executive decisions
- Managed structured process to track, lock-in and confirm delivery of >$100M recurring savings
CASE STUDY
Global Telco scales their RPA program to 1000+ production BoTs with Shibumi
Background
New entrants into the market were disrupting this long-standing telco giant, primarily located in the US. As a part of a global quest for creating cost efficiencies, the telco invested heavily in RPA technologies to deliver savings across their highly decentralized business.
Challenge
- The Automation team had a pipeline of 5,000+ robotic process automation (RPA) opportunities
- They were heavily decentralized teams, located all around the world, and working in different business units.
- Delivery of digital workers was taking on average 12 week delivery times
- They needed a rigorous system to help them with value management without undermining team creativity
- Their existing tools such as project/resource management tools optimized for technology development, not business value delivery
How the Shibumi RPA Accelerator helped
- Since consolidating all of their RPA opportunities into the Shibumi RPA Accelerator the Automation team have delivered more than $75M+ of 'business impact' to date
- The Telco was able to accelerate the flow of ideas to production BoTs through Shibumi resulting in over 1,000+ high-impact bots now in production
- Shibumi's user-friendly forms, automated business rules, and workflows enabled them to scale value delivery
- Key to their success was the ability to build early executive momentum through ‘quick wins’ proving the business value of the RPA team across the enterprise
- Today the Automation team have a standardized method for forecasting and reporting the results coming from their program to fuel re-investment
CASE STUDY
Investment Governance
Strategic goal: Improve cost discipline and align investment with corporate priorities.
Strategy Execution Challenge
- Decentralized delivery across $30B+ enterprise, including 6 legal entities and shared services
- Shift underway from regulated, fixed-return environment to disciplined capital management
- Need to manage investment efficiently in a rapidly changing market and capital-raising environment
Shibumi Impact
- Provide company-wide transparency on investment requests, cost basis and available resources
- Maintain continuously updated baseline of scoring, investment decisions and initiatives in execution
- Enable consistent and value-focused decisions
- Validate value realization vs. initial commitments