Case Studies - Ocius Consulting Ltd
Launching an MVP for Change Management
Developed for Ocius Consulting Ltd.
Why Build an Application for Change Mangement?
Businesses often have sound initiatives, but poor people management, leading to costly failures.
The concept for Journey is a web application which automates an existing manual process, developed over years of delivering change management projects.
The web application uses a comprehensive questionnaire to identify the people experiences throughout the change and provides the practical steps to deliver it correctly and efficiently.
Discovery
- • We met the founder, John Heseltine,at a local networking event. He described his idea for Journey, which he’d been looking to build for 5 years.
- • During an initial meeting, we identified the requirements for the minimum viable product.
- • We proposed to stripe out all non-essential requirements to deliver a fully-functional web application in a short time frame.
Phase 1
- • During phase 1, we focused on delivering an interactive frontend to prove the concept with customers. We digitised the paper-based questionnaire John had refined through years of delivering change management projects. The results of this questionnaire were delivered in a format ready to insert into an existing Excel spreadsheet John used. This allowed him to follow an existing manual process to produce a manual report.
- • John visited weekly to help refine the frontend to match his initial vision.
Phase 2
- • During phase 2, we automated the logic John used to follow to help determine the risks, readiness checks, and deliverables for change management projects. This logic fed the project inputs and results into a report, ready to be presented to management boards.
The Results
The frontend was live 2 months, enabling John to gather feedback on the questionnaire.
2 months later, the full minimum viable product was ready to use by organisations. The database was carefully designed so that project data can be used to train an AI model for future automation.