Change Communications

The Lawson Project covers of the set-up, integration and deployment of the Lawson ERP financial suite and associated business systems to the worldwide locations of a major oilfield services company.

I have been working as Communication Coordinator as part of the Change Management team since the pilot phase three years ago. This blog contains my experiences and thoughts collected during this time.

Teams from Atos Origin have played key roles in areas such as security and configuration management, industrialization of the production system and change management.

Since October 2001, a team of up to 80 Atos Origin consultants (from Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Sweden and the UK) has worked in close collaboration with teams from our client, Lawson Software and Hitachi Consulting.

The Lawson Project business system solution consists of a series of best of breed systems: Lawson, Siebel (OFS Invoicer), Business Intelligence (OFS Reporter) and integration with CommerceOne e-procurement marketplace (SWPS).

Overview of the business system solution deployed.

The ambitious deployment objectives and aggressive timelines were consistently met on time and within budget.

Benefits experienced by our client include:

• Global and integrated business system for all geographical areas excluding North America
• Centralised and standardised systems architecture
• Almost ‘real-time’ business intelligence
• Reduced effort in data entry, greater quality control
• Less IT support at field level

Approximately 6000 users in 115 countries across the world are now working with the new systems.

Nicholas Ranken