Barrick Digital Transformation Case Study

Discover how Barrick worked with Birchman to embed a culture of business owned applications, ensuring value realisation of their digital transformation strategy.

The Challenge

With many legacy technologies and little system ownership, Barrick had encountered the following issues:

A misalignment of business requirements and processes
Complex, bespoke, and disconnected solutions
Expensive implementation and sustainment costs
Lack of adoption; end users unengaged, solution not fit for purpose
Failed projects due to lack of business buy-in and value realisation

The Solution and Our Approach

Birchman delivered a target operating for business-owned applications that would allow them to operate a global framework to maintain simplification and standardisation, while still allowing them to be agile to local requirements.

Strong buy-in from executive sponsors with accountability for delivery of business applications
Identifying global business process leads as product owners with the right functional expertise that drove the digital roadmap and established global governance whilst prioritising requirements
Embedding skilled regional and local subject matter experts and super users enabling Barrick to act local

Impacts

In partnership with Birchman, this approach for business-owned applications has seen Barrick successfully deliver over 25 go-lives globally in the last 2 years, spanning across multiple business functions.
Benefits that have been realised include;