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Cavendish supplied the Senior
Programme Manager – Operations for the Railtrack Asset Management
Programme (RAMP)
Cavendish was selected by Railtrack to take over this programme
after the programme had been running for nine months and had just
de-committed on roll out dates for the second time.
The programme had three phases with the first phase having a budget
of £100 million and a staff complement which peaked at 250
people.
- The programme had two simultaneous work
streams - one to deliver an asset management system and the second
to deliver a national data base of existing assets for validation
by the Office of the Rail Regulator.
- Failure to deliver by this deadline could
have exposed Railtrack to the prejudice of its operating licence
or severe Government censure. Both of these work streams were
in a critical condition when Cavendish was appointed to recover
the situation.
- Cavendish implemented two major re-structuring
processes within the programme and introduced a major systems
integrator organisation to subcontract on specific work packages.
- A key achievement was to restructure the
business case and present the long term financial payback model
within a financially sound framework. This involved in depth evaluation
of business performance management systems and the development
of a bespoke performance management model for the infrastructure
management and development group.
- A strategic approach was developed to provide
an acceptable status to the Government on the national asset data
base while a recovery programme has been initiated.
- Staff complement was significantly reduced
and costs on the programme cut by over 15%.
- Cavendish was responsible for the management
of several sub-contracted suppliers to provide various components
of the system as well as the scope definition for the Business
Change programme to be installed in the nineteen different engineering
maintenance organisations which are subcontracted to maintain
the national rail grid.
- The scope of the programme includes a major
engineering and financial focus with system components covering
asset data capture, maintenance scheduling, engineering renewals
planning, and fault management and recovery.
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