Industries
Industry Experience
PDT has worked across the broad spectrum of commerce, industry and national services. The breadth of this experience gives PDT a unique ability to recognise potential problems and provide solutions. Whatever the business area PDT can provide practical cost-effective solutions to help their clients enhance their business potential and gain competitive edge.
Data Protection Legislation: PDT is experienced in the application of legislation. For clients new to the challenge or those considering replacing existing process or systems, PDT provides accurate, professional advice.
Department of Health and Social Services: PDT provides high-level studies to identify systems in use, reporting to senior managers and department heads. This includes providing structured business analysis skills for projects in small teams at clinical department level.
Energy Metering: PDT provided business analysis support to deliver an intranet-based CRM solution using RAD over tight timescales with small, dispersed, business and development teams.
Energy Supply: Complex industries require many systems to interact correctly to enable the enterprise to deliver successfully. PDT has studied problems including energy trading, engineering support and network element data systems, generally in medium to large team environments.
Expert Witness: When a major IT system fails, the ultimate recourse is to litigation. PDT has provided requirements definition and specification expertise in three major litigations. The purpose is to find out what actually happened (a forensic activity), what went wrong, and why (analysis); and then to present these findings in a manner that intelligent people other than software experts can understand.
Identity and Passport Service: PDT provides business analysis of current (as-is) and future (to-be) business processes for Passport Applications. Considering the impact of ID Cards on these processes and proposing appropriate solutions.
Logistics and Parcels Delivery: PDT provided business analysis in a small team for the logistics processes for parcels handling, plus considering data collection using bar codes and data sharing processes.
Ministry of Defence: The Ministry of Defence projects have included work directly for the Forces and for Executive Agencies. PDT provided a mixture of project management and business analysis skills, coupled with a high level of inter-personal skills to handle complex situations.
MoD Executive Agencies: Business and systems analysis, and implementation support for an estates management systems for web deployment in a tri-service environment. PDT delivered design and analysis of necessary business systems changes resulting from the introduction and advising senior working groups.
National Criminal Investigation Service: PDT provided project responsibility for an overview of business systems currently in use and delivering the report to the Executive Board;
National Police Improvement Agency, formerly PITO: Advice, introduction and business analysis to support the use of a task monitoring tool during its deployment to national Police forces. PDT worked individually with users and affected staff and providing training sessions to groups.
Nuclear Energy: PDT provided business analysis and implementation support for the introduction of an energy trading system as part of a large team with extreme time pressures.
Office Machinery and Document Management: With a background with one of the major players in document management, PDT provided important expertise. Employing business process analysis as a pre-cursor to any business change is a wise precaution supporting a business case and a salutary lesson in identifying precisely the scope and content of the change.
Personal Insurance and Pensions: Business analysis of the sales cycle for personal insurance products. PDT planned revised processes using technology to extend the reach of data to the client at point of sale.
Police and Criminal Justice: PDT solutions range from individual tasks to team project activities and using conventional documentation and reporting techniques to sophisticated, special purpose software tools. The work incidentally included identifying weaknesses in third party tools and specifying and implementing improvements.
Police Forces: PDT provided process analysis and workload measurement in areas closely associated with Custody and Case Preparation. Working individually conducting fact gathering and presenting results to groups and individuals for agreement and action.
Research and Development: PDT developed a specification tool for requirements definition (SPECIFY4IT™) which embodies a defined syntax and semantics. This work is complete and tools developed to carry the specification process forward to a new position where machine reasoning is applied to the specification material. This enables both the exercising of the specification (animation) and the production of fully functional working code directly from the specification.
Royal Air Force: Business process and data analysis to provide specifications for logistics systems. PDT delivered an SSADM specification for implementation by a third party.
Telecommunications: PDT used its high quality specification tools for analysis of number and number block allocation processes. PDT identified weaknesses in systems and proposed solutions that could be demonstrated while still in the specification stage.
The Home Office: The Home Office covers a number of government Departments and Executive Agencies. PDT delivered specifications that involved analysing and modelling one or more business process or data analysis tasks. PDT used project management skills, usually employing the PRINCE2 framework.
