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A Global Leader in Sustainability 🌍
This pioneer in chemical manufacturing leads large-scale development activities in sustainability with more than half a century of experience.
What’s more, their operations are carried out by thousands of skilled employees across 50 countries and in over 15 different languages. Put simply, this is an organization that has established itself on the global stage.
The speciality company is one that is always on the lookout for innovative solutions to its biggest challenges, including its project management tools.
From initial onboarding and configuration in April 2024 to a full-scale pilot by June of the same year, they had found exactly what they were looking for to take project management to the next level. edison365, of course!
We recently sat down with their PMO Lead to talk all things implementation. From onboarding to the bigger picture. Our chat with their senior team demonstrates their drive to make edison365 a success within their business.
Summary
Challenge
This Chemicals company lacked a singular project repository, which lead to limited visibility and decentralized project data management. This wasn’t just a fragmented processes for the team but ultimately caused difficulties in creating portfolio-level insights and reporting dashboards.
Solution
Naturally, they required the right tools to meet these large-scale projects. edison365 completely replaced a dysfunctional process of manual data handling and difficult reporting.
Results
This customer now enjoys a newly found process for project managers and their monthly reporting duties. Timely updates now flow like clockwork, with enhanced visibility and accountability. This has minimized duplicate efforts and manual, messy data handling.
New Beginnings 🏆
The chemical sustainability giant’s phased rollout was a successful and strategic decision. It allowed them to consciously handpick certain projects and project managers to ensure quality.
This limited pilot scope made it easier to address challenges and make iterative improvements to their edison365 environment before further adoption. A very clever move for steady and confident progress!
Seeking Solutions 🔎
Before adopting our tools, the team used PowerApps and SharePoint forms for project and portfolio management needs. And although these worked to a certain degree, the limitations were clear:
- Disorganized way of working
- Poor centralized, end-to-end project management visibility
- Fragmented project reporting and updates
These challenges threatened their progress, indicating the need for a solution that was both a resolution and refinement of their current tech stack.
edison365 didn’t just remove these setbacks but enhanced project management transparency and visibility. Now, everything lives in one place.
“Previously it was dropping files into SharePoint, and we had to sort of go in and look at things, but now it’s a lot more visible.”
Going Bespoke ✨
Gradually, this customer’s reliance on tools like Excel, PowerPoint, and SharePoint dwindled. They found a scalable solution in edison365, and early into the onboarding stage, the team began enhancing their workflows and taking full advantage of the capabilities in edison365 — a match made in heaven
This progressive setup from an ‘out-of-the-box’ version was pivotal to their adoption of edison365. Luckily, our software is super customizable, and a major reason global teams choose our tools.
Over time, the environment shaped to serve their project management needs as accurately as possible; until what was left was the perfect formula for addressing high-level business priorities moving forward.
One PMO professional describes this as an “iterative process”, highlighting their journey with edison365 as a cycle of continuous improvement which helps them become “a little more advanced in using the tools” leading to higher user adoption.
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Any Unexpected Benefits? 🏅
Sometimes we find our customers uncover benefits they were not expecting prior to launch. However, the chemical specialists point out that the analysis they undertook led to finding the perfect tool.
“It was more expected rather than unexpected. We did some research and compared against whatever tools are on the market.”
Comments like this confirm we’re building what modern project management needs to deliver progress and success, and that means a lot to us! Building on some less expecting benefits, one project manager said…
“There’s a positive behavior of updating information in a timely manner because it’s a lot more transparent now.”
This behavioral shift has increased transparency around project updates and reporting. Now, there is a stronger cadence around monthly project reporting, which is advantageous for everyone involved.
Relying on other tools used previously made it difficult for key stakeholders to understand how projects were progressing. However, project reporting is now more efficiently available at any given time in edison365.
Bigger Visions, Better Projects 🚀
We love to celebrate customer success, but we’re just as excited for their future goals. With this sustainability powerhouse, we hope to see an expansion beyond digital initiatives to projects supporting their corporate strategy team.
From business process improvement to cost optimization projects, they are already finding ways to leverage edison365’s tools for a range of department needs.
“The aspiration is to have enterprise PMO using a single tool.”
Right now, this customer is managing their digital portfolio through edison365 but foresees a level of maturity and adoption that unlocks enterprise-wide project management harmony across their business with advanced resource management.
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