About Simon
Accomplished consulting practice partner who can span hands-on consulting delivery, business development, and practice development. Extensive experience of selling and delivering business transformation across multiple industries including financial services, oil & gas, pharmaceuticals, aerospace, and manufacturing industries.
Focuses on assisting CIOs by pragmatically connecting the dots between business strategy, business models, value streams, business capabilities, and the IT estate to create transparency of IT consumption, insights into costs and risks, and identification of change opportunities and impacts. Following through to shape and optimise the change portfolio to deliver digital transformation, cost and risk reduction and business value creation. Enabling CIOs to answer two key questions for their organisation; Do we have the right business capabilities for our business strategy? Are we investing in the right change projects to maximise business value returns?
Strong interpersonal, leadership, stakeholder management, and strategic problem-solving skills with ability to work with key stakeholders across all levels.
Previous Career Roles:
- UK Head of Enterprise Strategy & Advisory Consulting, Wipro Ltd
- Chief Enterprise Architect, Financial Services Authority (now FCA)
- Chief Architect for the Industry Transformation Toolkit & Framework (FSS), IBM
- Technical Director, Willis Group
- Group Technical Architect, Guardian Royal Exchange
Achievements - Sample
Shaped and transformed Wipro’s Enterprise Strategy & Advisory Consulting practice from a traditional system integration and technology focused consulting practice into a business led strategic CIO advisory consulting practice focused on digital business transformation and IT business management.
Delivered and led consulting engagements across digital transformation, business change optimization, and application portfolio optimization. Developed and managed a team of high-performance consultants to provide senior subject matter expertise in meetings with CxOs. Delivered and led consulting engagements across digital transformation, business change optimization, and application portfolio optimization.
Won a multi-year Enterprise Architecture as a Service contract for Wipro in the face of competition from both Accenture and IBM .
Engaged with Forrester to position Wipro EA Consulting Services, resulting in Wipro being positioned as the outsight leader in EA service strategy on the Forrester WAVE report.
IBM Certified Enterprise Architect. Recognised by IBM with an Outstanding Innovation and Leadership Award for the development and rollout of a business transformation planning framework and approach to integrate business capability analysis, enterprise portfolio management, and change governance. Engaged with many Financial Services clients to utilise the framework in real world situations to resolve client challenges and align IBM value propositions.
Thought Leadership
Creator of Wipro’s Line of Sight framework which is leveraged across the CIO Advisory strategic planning offerings to connects the dots between business strategy, business capabilities and business operations (enterprise IT and business organisation) to provide transparency for cost, performance and strategic impacts enabling targeted business transformation planning and delivery, to reduce RtB spend and maximise the value of CtB spend.
Author of Wipro’s point of view on the new role of digital era Business & Enterprise Architecture in driving digital transformation. Responsible for promoting both the thought leadership and associated consulting services at industry forums, with industry analysts and directly with clients to develop opportunities.
Developed and delivered an agile native, decision-centric approach to solution design assurance, for a complex global bank, which empowered agile development teams to rapidly deliver high quality change while still meeting the organisations business and IT controls. Read more here
Presented 21st Century Business Architecture at the TOGAF conference in San Diego, February 2015.
Evolved Wipro’s embryonic application portfolio analysis consulting approach into a class leading Business Capability led Application Portfolio Management approach supported by accelerators and tools.