From decision to go-live. Then the handover.
Twenty years of digital platforms. Five of them brought live – from migros.ch to roche.com. For thirteen years, I sat on the client side – with budget, team, and vendor accountability. As the Founder of Lancashire Digital, I now guide you on a fractional basis: driving decisions, selecting vendors, and executing through to go-live. Followed by the handover.
What you get
First: The decision
A business case with a baseline so results can be measured later, a vendor chosen commission-free, and an owner from your own team. After two to three weeks, you know what needs to be stopped.
Second: The execution
I manage vendors, milestones, and sign-offs through to go-live. Your team takes over from that point, not me.
How I work
Without disciplinary line management
At Roche, I established a policy that applied across units outside my direct line. You do not achieve that by decree. It only works when people understand the purpose.
When nobody decides
In large organizations, decisions stall because nobody wants to decide alone. I do not wait for that. I put a proposal on the table that anyone can refine, tied to a fixed decision date.
With your people
The person responsible for the initiative after go-live is already sitting in your team. I ensure they can steer it without me. Then the scaffolding comes down.
Plain language
If the evidence is thin, I say so. To the board of directors. Even when the vendor is sitting in the room.
Industries
Pharma & Life Sciences
Group-wide digital governance, audit readiness, and compliance directives for multinational enterprises (Roche Group).
Retail & E-Commerce
Large-scale platform relaunches and multi-team governance in high-competition environments (Migros).
Telecom, Media & Directories
National directory and community platforms from inception to market (localsearch / Swisscom Directories).
SaaS & Regulatory Tech
Executive leadership of a SaaS provider for digital product passports under the EU Ecodesign Regulation (ESPR).
Qualifications
Alongside these, Statistics I and II at the University of Zurich.
What I am not
No agency, no engineering team, no permanent fixture. I do not build myself; I guide those who build. No commissions, no markups. One to four days a month, minimum six months, full-time upon request, ending with a handover. Why time-boxed? Because an initiative has a beginning and an end – and your organization needs to be at the wheel afterward.
Initial conversation – 30 minutes
You bring the initiative. I will tell you directly whether you need me, in what capacity – or if a second opinion is sufficient. References provided during our call.