Programme management is the coordinated management of a portfolio of projects enabling organisations to deliver benefits of strategic importance. Benefits defined by your strategy should be at the heart of your process using programme management to create and enforce the governance framework to ensure this at all times.

How Lucas Kennedy Helps

LK’s resource network has driven some of the worlds most significant HR and Finance platform transformations. These established Programme Delivery leaders bring seasoned expertise, leadership, and intelligent method to deliver success, transparency and certainty to your programme.

Effective Change management for organisations is often the difference between staying relevant and surviving the ever-disrupted market climate and fading into obscurity. Combining change management with project-work management offers the combined potential for delivering new results and capabilities, successfully embedding the change, and realising value.

The change management process links strategy with execution and deployment operationally and the ultimate realisation of the expected benefits.

How Lucas Kennedy Helps

Are you juggling multiple workstreams to tight deadlines? Need to deploy multi-region without downtime or make organisational changes to your platform upstream? LK will find you the best Change professionals to make these kinds of scenarios succeed.

A business process is a collection of related, structured activities or tasks by people or, more recently, artificial intelligence. A specific sequence produces a service or product (outcome) for a target audience. Business processes occur at all organisational levels and may or may not be visible to the customers. 

A business process, often modelled as a flowchart, whereby a sequence of activities with adjoining decision points and relevance rules, based on data in the process. The benefits of using business processes include improved quality assurance and customer satisfaction allowing higher levels of market agility.

Process-oriented organisations break down functional silos and the associated barriers of traditionally structured departments.

How Lucas Kennedy Helps

LK deliver through our network, independent Business Architects, functional consultants and Analysts who are experts in each of the modules you choose to adopt. Whether HCM, Absence, Talent or Compensation, they will support your organisation's business process re-engineering throughout the engagement.

Functional design is a critical part of your implementation. The work done here is fed by requirements gathering, gap fit analysis of your business processes vs the functionality of the target technology solution and business process re-engineering to bring your processes in line with what the chosen platform can deliver.  Once this outcome has been achieved, good functional design ensures the way your platform works and behaves delivers the outcomes your organisation requires and the solution can then be configured based on this design.  In order for this to be a success, having skilled resources that understand the technology and its functionality, configuration, limitations and how to deliver the design piece is essential to the successful delivery of the solution and adoption of its users.  
 
How Lucas Kennedy Helps

Since 2008, Lucas Kennedy have delivered Functional Consultants who have been instrumental to the success of numerous technology implementations.  We understand the technology and your requirements and deliver the best resources in the market to meet your needs and ensure your programme is a success.   

Working with your business teams they will help you understand what works, how to get the very best out of your platform and design and configure the solution to deliver the functionality you require and maximising the adoption across your organization. 

The principle aim of good data management is to help people, organisations, and connected things optimise the use of data. Aligned within the bounds of policy or regulation to make decisions and maximise the benefit to the organisation, a comprehensive data management strategy is becoming more critical than ever as organisations increasingly rely on immaterial assets to drive value.

How Lucas Kennedy Helps

Need to create or drive a data strategy? Cleanse, map, re-map data points or migrate your data to a new location entirely.

These are a few areas where the LK Data Specialist network of resources bring data and mass data management expertise as part of your broader change programme.

Most large-scale organisations likely have current and legacy platforms using varying degrees of integrated solutions. How seamless these touchpoints significantly affect the quality and functionality outputs from workflow and business processes working within each system.

Whichever route you choose to connect to an external payroll provider or interface with downstream systems, there will inevitably be a degree of integrating required.

How Lucas Kennedy Helps

Whether it's native integrations or connectors built by vendor aligned tooling (e.g. Workday Studio/Connector), the LK network delivers top connectivity resources.

These specialists bring knowledge and experience to platform interoperability, intelligently ensuring seamless connectivity throughout your platform estate.

Shifting away from legacy solutions requires a mindset shift with regards to testing. Many organisations typically continue the same way, by opting to test everything. This could include the underlying system, server and databases.
 
A massive benefit of services like Workday is that the background IT is taken care of for you.  Testing the functionality of your configuration and third-party integrations, however, ensures that all your business-critical processes are working as intended. Not only that, a defect-free application gives a superior user experience, better ROI, and wider adoption. Therefore, testing goes hand in hand with a successful business operation. 
 
How Lucas Kennedy Helps

Our network of Test Managers and Analysts can help your organisation devise and implement a robust testing strategy and deliver end to end and UAT testing giving you the confidence that your configuration is fit for purpose and ready for live operation

Navigating successfully through the deployment process can be a complex challenge for even the most well-run organisations.  Often we are faced with challenges around multiple time zones, languages, local and regional laws and legislations, and the simple fact that the new processes and technology needs to be successfully adopted by the business users in every business unit around the world.

How Lucas Kennedy Helps

For over a decade, we have built and refined a global database of candidates to cover all aspects of a deployment regardless of size and scale.
Whether you require:

• Project/Programme Management resources to oversee and manage the deployment
• Specialists in specific countries for Payroll extensions
• Finance consultants with expertise in multi-currency
• Consultants fluent in specific languages to expertly handhold users and stakeholders to ensure successful transition and adoption of new processes and technology
• Training professionals with the relevant language skills to deliver training workshops country by country

Lucas Kennedy can help.

We have successfully, partnered with numerous organisations giving them access to the best talent on the market at speed and ultimately playing a large part in successful deployments for clients around the world.

Reporting and Analytics prepare and analyse data to find and share actionable insights, helping users improve decisions and business performance through various mediums, e.g. reports and dashboards.

Reporting and Analytics at their core enable your organisation to track, understand, and manage your day to day activities by maximising enterprise performance. When correctly tuned, organisations can improve operational efficiency, build profitable customer relationships, and develop differentiated product portfolios.

Developing the correct reporting and analytical metrics is critical to the decisions made in every board room.

How Lucas Kennedy Helps

Reporting and Analytics are critical to many boardroom decisions. LK can source Reporting Leads, Report writers and Analytical experts through our professional network to operate alongside your executive and operational teams.

These professionals will ensure your organisation has the proper visibility of its activities to enable informed decision making through real-time data.