Enterprise
Data & AI
Transformation
From fragmented data estate to scalable Data & AI capability — delivering £100m+ in measurable business value.
Measurable value through consolidation and use cases.
Unified cloud platform consolidated onto Databricks on AWS.
Data products enabled across the organisation.
Fragmented data was limiting speed, trust, and scale.
A FTSE100 aviation group faced a data estate grown fragmented across legacy systems and siloed teams — resulting in high cost, slow delivery, and no foundation to scale Data & AI.
Fragmented estate — data siloed across legacy systems with no single source of truth.
High cost — duplicated infrastructure driving unnecessary spend.
Slow delivery — no scalable operating model to move from insight to action.
Limited AI readiness — no foundation for analytics, data science, or ML/AI Ops.
Strategy through execution — not strategy in isolation.
The work connected business value, platform modernisation, data governance, operating model change, and scalable delivery capability — end to end.
End-to-end transformation
Led Data & AI transformation from strategy to execution across technology, operating model, governance, and value realisation.
Unified cloud data platform
Consolidated the legacy estate into a single Databricks on AWS platform, reducing duplication and complexity.
Scalable Data & AI capability
Established analytics, data science, and ML/AI Ops capabilities for enterprise-scale delivery.
Governance and value tracking
Embedded governance and value tracking so progress could be controlled, evidenced, and sustained.
Measurable value, lower complexity, enterprise-wide enablement.
Measurable business value through consolidation and use-case delivery.
Data products enabled across the organisation.
A single cloud data platform replacing fragmented legacy infrastructure.
Legacy cost and complexity reduced across the enterprise data estate.
Turning Data & AI ambition into measurable outcomes.
This case demonstrates the leadership required to make enterprise Data & AI transformation real: simplify the estate, align the operating model, embed governance, and track value from strategy through delivery. The combination of technical depth and business focus is what separates engagements that deliver from those that stall.
Three ways to engage
For leaders who need a clear, defensible view of where the organisation stands — and what to do next.
- Readiness scorecard
- AI inventory
- Root causes and 90-day plan
- Executive defensibility pack
For organisations that know the gaps and need senior-led delivery to close them — without a large consulting team.
- Close capability gaps
- Deliver measured outcomes
- Embed operating rhythm
- Executive progress narrative
For executive teams that need named senior ownership of the Data & AI agenda without hiring a permanent CDAO immediately.
- Executive and leadership presence
- Strategy and value ownership
- Delivery and governance oversight
- Succession planning
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