The requirement was to build the first Global Type-C product across Vodafone as a managed Service for Vodafone Markets. As a solution, we launched a new product and drove automation first to minimize the time to onboard customers while minimizing our cost per transaction for the SME market segment. We built the product once, deployed it many times after launching it in DE and IT, and planned for IE, UK, etc.
Intelligent Ticket Routing - IT Platforms and Automation
We created the Intelligent ticket routing tool for Vodafone Germany and VOIS Egypt to eliminate the complex manual work of our colleagues in the GSL Business Technology team with a zero-touch operation to save their valuable time and effort.
We created accurate measures to help Vodafone Germany acquire the correct customers after proper screening and assessments. We used Amazon web service (AWS), cloud-based infrastructure and microservice architecture. This innovation helped us learn the importance of revisiting the tools and solutions to enhance our way of working and support any business functions to have a more reliable and secure platform.
Vodafone uses technology, services, or systems managed by other sources, these applications are deemed as Shadow IT Applications and lead to the risk of low compliance and industrialisation of corporate systems. They could have detrimental impacts of breaching regulatory requirements, affecting customer experience, or financial performance due to duplication of systems, operational inefficiency, and increased licensed fees.
Challenges and Solutions
Challenges
Our goal was to understand and remediate the Shadow IT Risk in Vodafone. It has been an unknown, significant, and real risk to Vodafone. Our task was to assess over 1600 Shadow IT applications. After the assessments and risk identification, we needed to reduce risks and support the remediation. We wanted to build something that leaves a future capability behind using an offshore team to complete application assessments.
Solutions
We hired a team that can grow in VOIS and built the capability and processes through co-creation, and everyone brings their fresh ideas. We created a robust, consistent process for assessing a high volume of applications while maintaining the quality of each risk assessment. Later, we focused on data and used these assessments for insights that will help us understand the Shadow IT estate better, prioritize our risk reduction efforts, and look at cost-saving and consolidation activities. We’ve got over 60 data points that we can use for each application.
Value and Impact
Built a strong and highly skilled team
Finished the assessments of 942 of 1540 applications.
Dandified 203 High, 901 Medium, and 268 Low-Security risks, with 68 (33%) high risks that are remediated or reduced.
Strengthened customer-facing applications and applications with C4 data
prioritised efforts and tracked risk remediation progress.