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Placeholder — Consolidating operations across scattered systems

Structure for a case study about replacing spreadsheet-driven operations with a single internal system.

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01

The business problem

Operational work is spread across spreadsheets, inboxes and legacy tools. The same information is entered more than once, nobody trusts the numbers, and reporting is a manual exercise every month.

02

The challenge

Off-the-shelf tools were built for a different business model. Migrating wholesale would have meant changing how the team works during the busiest period of the year — so the replacement needed to meet the existing process where it worked, and change it only where the process was the problem.

03

What we built

A single internal system of record for the affected workflows, with role-based access, a reporting dashboard built on live data, and a staged migration path so nothing went live before it was ready.

04

How it works

  1. 01Staff work from one application instead of several spreadsheets and email threads.
  2. 02Each record has a single owner and a visible status, so nothing is duplicated or lost.
  3. 03Reporting reads from operational data directly instead of being compiled by hand.
  4. 04Access is granted by role and reviewed, rather than being shared accounts.
  5. 05Migration ran in stages so the business kept operating throughout.

05

Notable decisions

  • Existing data was migrated rather than re-entered.
  • Access model was designed around actual job roles before implementation.
  • Reporting was built on the same data as the operational workflows to prevent divergence.

06

Outcome

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