Company Overview
BT Lancashire Services (BTLS) is a wholly-owned company under the BT Group (one of the world’s leading communications services companies). BTLS are responsible for managing the Property and Highways teams for Lancashire County Council’s 10-year £400 million cost transformational scheme.
BT Lancashire Services capital program includes:
- A £600m portfolio of Highways & Property projects
- 3,000 disparate projects
- Grant Bids, Government initiatives and more
“Cora is our single program and project management platform that has increased the level of financial control and enhanced the quality of forecasting for us.” – Graham Walker Program Manager, BT Lancashire Services
Benefits Cora PPM Delivers
- Increased visibility and transparency of project costs
- The need for project managers to contact finance to check actual spending on projects has now been removed
- The executive-level team now has instant visibility (via the financial analysis widget) of any over-spend against budget
- Supports the Commissioning team in ‘draw the line’ type decisions – i.e. which projects to move forward within the budget available
- Reporting cycle reduced from 7 weeks to instantaneous
- BT Lancashire Services achieved a 10% Reduction in Capital Program Costs
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