Fluctuating oil prices, worrying economic conditions and decreasing profit margins have all impacted the oil and gas sector in the last few years.  Set against this challenging environment, achieving strategic priorities and implementing critical projects for the client has become a key focus for BSG, with BSG staff located in the client’s ecosystem.

Projects have included mitigating significant back-office control risks in a neighbouring African country, providing systematic controls and improving loading processes at client depots, enabling the analysis of IT&S costs, ensuring compliance to the POPI Act and infrastructural compliance to avoid cyber-attacks, the rollout of a document management system and implementation of a new maintenance system for the retail function.

The more recent TOM project has involved BSG developing a cross-section of the business and its IT function; focusing on the business strategies, goals, organisational structures, risks and key IT dependencies.  BSG initially defined the ‘as-is’ and ‘to-be’ states of the IT TOM and the resulting communications and reporting approach in response to the business strategy and the IT strategy.  Thereafter, BSG was further tasked with defining a performance reporting framework and designing and implementing a customer-centric survey.

After defining the current business environment, the drivers and strategy and the as-is and to-be TOMs, BSG was able to design a response to business strategy for a defined IT strategy, supported by strategic plans and associated delivery roadmaps.