Starting Situation 

• Our client was in the middle of a merger with 2 other groups in Europe in order to jointly become the largest European beverage bottler
• As part of the merger, the newly formed IT organization needed a business case (synergies), a common IT strategy and the right IT organization to actively drive the company’s digital transformation as an enabler

Project goals 

• Calculation of the expected synergies from the merger of the IT organizations
• Development of a target organization & an IT strategy for the new IT organization
• Definition and initiation of a transition and transformation program: Shutdown of the US organization and establishment of an IT organization in Europe as a merger of CCIP, CCE and CCEAG

Procedure

• Top-down analysis, identification of synergy candidates and determination of possible savings targets, bottom-up reviews and agreement commitments
• Development and coordination of an IT strategy framework & the IT strategy by means of workshops with the CIOs
• Analysis of the 3 IT organizations, coordination of functional target building blocks, description of the target organization L1-L3, development of first transition matrix
• Task Transfer of USA-Org tasks to Europe & Shut Down USA-Org
• Definition & setup of interim IT organization in Europe, validation & planning of transformation roadmap, design of target operating model

Results 

• Expected synergies from the merger
• IT strategy of the new company 
• Establishment of organization incl. unit description 
• Transition & Transformation Program, Shutdown USA IT organization, Set- up interim IT organization in Europe
• Outline of the Target Operating Model