Alistair Elliott

Jan 31 2020

CPA Australia – Case Study

In 2015, after adopting a new payroll solution, CPA Australia released a tender for a new technology partner to implement a human resources management solution built on SAP SuccessFactors.

Discovery Consulting (Discovery) was chosen as the most suitable partner.

Discovery worked extensively with CPA Australia from the outset, to understand its requirements, current situation, and vision for its human resources management.

“The Discovery team are SuccessFactors and HR experts – they have lived and breathed it all before. They know the challenges. They have worked with multiple clients and have been able to leverage this knowledge – this meant they were able to give us some specific insights and prepare us for any challenges,” says Amanda.

The resulting solution, SAP SuccessFactors, was rolled out globally in February 2017. Discovery Consulting helped CPA determine which SuccessFactors modules best met their specific requirements: Employee Central, Recruitment, Onboarding, Performance and Goals, Learning and Compensation.

The solution was employed using Discovery’s Rapid Deployment process – which meant each module was deployed, thoroughly tested and then updated, before the next was rolled out.

“We gained so much knowledge by working collaboratively with Discovery throughout the deployment process,” says Amanda.

“As they were on site, in our office, they were able to show us exactly how things were being set up, and we could talk through what we wanted

Discovery Consulting SAP SuccessFactors CPA Case Study

Oct 16 2019

Coffee Corner: Wrap-up from SuccessConnect

This podbite is a wrap up from SuccessConnect in Las Vegas 2019. Thanks to Chris Paine, Paul Ryan and Alistair Elliott for their contribution.

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Aug 05 2019

SuccessConnect, Las Vegas

Discovery Consulting will be at SuccessConnect as a Silver Sponsor this year. SuccessConnect runs from September 16-18, 2019.

Attend SuccessConnect to learn how innovative HR organizations can lead the Human Revolution through forward-thinking strategies such as:

Creating the ideal employee experience to deliver the ultimate customer experience.
Building a business focused on people and creating a culture that attracts, retains and maximises high-performing people.
Becoming a magnet for talent and a company that people want to join because of shared values.
Managing an agile workforce that can quickly respond to a rapidly changing world.
Building an organization for the future by aligning workforce talent strategies with long-term strategic objectives.

Mar 13 2019

Environment Health and Safety App – Released (EH&S)

Discovery Consulting have recently released customer videos of the EH&S / OH&S solution for SAP SuccessFactors. The introductory videos provide an overview of how this application can proactively assist organisations in bringing together a safe workforce.

Named “SafetyFactors”, this application bring together the reporting and proactive management across incidents and hazards, whilst providing key checklist components.

Introduction to Safety Factors (video 1)

Features of Safety Factors (video 2)

Sep 21 2018

Digital transformation means making your data more accessible

Every new era of technology comes with its own unique challenges, but the era of digital transformation we’re now in has significantly ramped up the complexity that business leaders need to deal with. Every day, the expectations of your customers are heightened by the digital experiences they’re offered through new applications. At the same time, your competitors are circling with their own applications, products, and services designed to erode your bottom line, and contribute to their own.

Against this backdrop, digital transformation is imperative, but it’s easy to lose sight of the reasons why we undertake a digital transformation program. Ultimately, we believe that digital transformation is about putting your business in the best possible position to adapt your business models at rapid pace. It’s about innovation and agility for staying one step ahead of your customers’ expectations, and your competitors’ next offering.

Sounds great, but what does that mean in real terms? Put simply, it’s about data. Every organisation collects and stores data, but very few put data at the centre of their business to truly drive agility and improved reponsiveness. Unstructured data isn’t information. It only becomes valuable when it’s accessible and ready to be processed in the right areas of your business.

Where for art thou data?

Everyone is scrambling to make the most of cloud, mobile, big data, and even IoT, but all of these are wasted unless we can bring the data together in a meaningful way. That’s why we’re seeing companies such as Amazon using data as their competitive advantage. They don’t let a single dataset go to waste. They attempt to find out any information they can about their customers so they can create the ideal offering for each customer, at precisely the right time, in any location or channel.

Unless we can turn data into information, analysis, and actionable insights, it’s merely an asset we’re paying a premium to collect and store, without deriving any real value from. And this is the situation we see many businesses in. They’re hamstrung by their ability to get the information and insights they need to make timely decisions.

Their data is spread across multiple legacy systems and databases, and the simple act of cleaning and processing data into remotely tangible information is an arduous and time-consuming process. Not only does it soak up valuable IT resources and man-hours, but it’s also a process that many technology professionals are inexperienced to perform to adequate standards.

Time to insight is time to value

While we understand how important it is to deliver seamless digital experiences to our customers, including timely information and recommendations, we don’t attempt to offer the same streamlined experiences to our internal stakeholders. So, how can we expect decision-makers in our organisation to capitalise on opportunities in the marketplace, when they can’t access the insights they need, at precisely when they need them?

Real business agility that allows you to react to changing conditions is best achieved by consolidating your data onto an integrated platform. This allows your organisation to accelerate time to insight – which is the length of time it takes your internal stakeholders to turn unprocessed data into actionable insights.

With a unified and integrated platform that provides real-time analytics and forecasting to every business unit, your organisation will be democratising data and developing a competitive advantage through data-driven decision-making. SAP S/4HANA public cloud offers this platform, which also doubles as a foundation for leveraging the capabilities of IoT and big data. With a simplified data model, is significantly reduces the complexity in your IT environment, and dramatically reduces the costs associated with data collection and storage.

About the author:

As the Managing Partner at Discovery Consulting, my team and I provide assistance to organisations who want to discover a new competitive advantage through SAP’s industry-leading technology solutions, including S/4HANA and SuccessFactors. If you’d like to discuss how your organisation can create a new technology landscape that drives organisational growth and workforce engagement, please feel free to get in touch