Implementation
Implementation success isn't measured by a project plan. It's measured by going live when expected, with a solution your finance team understands, owns and can confidently run long after we've left.
Rules of engagement, roles, objectives, governance and a working timetable - agreed before anyone opens the software. Unglamorous work, and exactly where the failures get prevented.
How we workRequirements gathered properly, process blueprints, mock-ups and prototypes you can react to. Cheaper to argue with a prototype than with a built system.
The Northstar WorkshopBuilt collaboratively, tested rigorously, demonstrated to your stakeholders as it goes - with your team learning it as it's built rather than at a training day afterwards.
SupportFive phases, and the risk is taken out early - not discovered at go-live. Every stage is tracked, and your team learns the system as it's built.
Requirements, process blueprints and a prototype you sign off - proven with agile POCs before a line is configured. Cheaper to argue with a mock-up than a built system.
Built against the agreed design, collaboratively, tracked build-by-build so there are no surprises about what's done.
Migration and validation - the step most go-lives underestimate. We treat it as its own phase, not an afterthought.
Rigorous testing and a parallel run against your current numbers, so going live isn't a leap of faith.
Trained hands-on as it's built - short, practical sessions, not a manual - and supported through the first live cycles.
The bit most firms skip
A system only your consultants can change is a subscription you didn't agree to. We configure rather than code, and we teach your team as we go, because the measure of a good implementation is how little you have to call us afterwards. It's a worse business model for us and a better outcome for our customers.
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“The CPM analyser is a strategic framework that helped us work out the best way forward to improve our finance processes - a useful tool before embarking on any projects.”
James Downey, Head of Financial Planning, Northern Rail
Northern Rail used the CPM analyser - the assessment now rebuilt as the Finance Value Score.
We map where your finance function actually loses time. Process first, system second - in that order, always.
Target operating model and delivery plan, designed together - split them and the programme drifts.
A focused walkthrough on your real data, so you're buying evidence rather than a promise.
Senior consultants who have done this before, on the one platform we know best.
Tell us the shape of it. We'll tell you honestly what it takes - and if the timeline you've been given is fantasy, we'll say that too.
