Objective: Migrating an acquired company’s document operations to Nationwide Insurance’s technology standard: HP Exstream (now OpenText).
With over 18 years of experience with Nationwide and working on many various projects, I would like to take this opportunity to mention that this ranks as the most efficient project. Lynn Early, Governance Director, Office of Corporate Governance and Secretary (Client), Nationwide Insurance.
Challenge: The staff at newly acquired Atlas Insurance were stressed by being acquired and were not fully enrolled in the project. This had to be carefully managed to be successful.
How I responded to the challenge: Patience, persistence, listening to staff members, and obtaining their input allowed the project to move forward. Re-training staff was a key success factor.
Managing Technology Prototypes for Nationwide Architects Division
After setting the Atlas Insurance DMS Migration Project on solid footing, I was asked by Nationwide’s Chief Architect to work with the Nationwide Technology Architecture division to manage several high profile, cutting edge technology prototyping projects.
Each project budget was approximately $2 million and consisted of 5-10 highly technical architects and developers. The objective of each project was to evaluate a specific state of the art technology (mobile apps, mobile app management, and video production) and determine if and how that technology might be applied to Nationwide’s various businesses.
These were small, fast, highly technical and leading edge proof-of-concept projects, each with ties to a separate Nationwide business group and stakeholders. I was asked to quickly push each project to the point where a decision could be made: either cut and run or move forward with the technology.
Much of my time was spent deep diving into each technology, meeting with clients to understand their needs, and coordinating the team’s prototyping tasks. Each project had an associated set of meetings and I met weekly with Nationwide’s Architecture VP to review progress.
