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Enabling Global Cloud-Based Solution Delivery

Our client, a global leader in the development and management of solar energy projects, recognised that a step change in digital investment was a critical enabler of their growth strategy, including to support the rapid scale up across functions and geographies to meet ambitious growth targets to double the portfolio of developed Gigawatts while expanding into new regions.

Posted Nov 5, 2025

Marlborough was critical to achieving pace & quality of solution delivery

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  • Version of the Truth

  • Significantly increased confidence in data & decision making across geographies

BOARD PRIORITY

  • Achieved at Pace

  • Delivered to time, budget & quality

  • Elevating the effectiveness and credibility of HR & IT globally

GROWTH

  • Directly Supported into 19 markets

  • Journey to become a global solar powerhouse

SITUATION & CLIENT CHALLENGE

  • Our client, a global leader in the development and management of solar energy projects, recognised that a step change in digital investment was a critical enabler of their growth strategy, including to support the rapid scale up across functions and geographies to meet ambitious growth targets to double the portfolio of developed Gigawatts while expanding into new regions.
     
  • Marlborough was appointed, based on success with prior programmes, to inject programme leadership and transformation expertise for the build and delivery of a cloud based, configured low code system, to accelerate development of solar projects and enable global growth.
     
  • Marlborough was also tasked with leading on injecting Agile ways of working to maximise ROI and support longevity through developing and establishing new capabilities.
     
  • Marlborough was also able to leverage significant experience and complementary value being delivered via Senior Advisory to the IT Director.
     
  • This work was very visible at Board level as one of the top 3 digitally enabled initiatives to directly deliver their growth ambitions.

OUR LEADERSHIP & KEY INTERVENTIONS

Leveraging Significant Experience of Delivering Global Change

Drove and co-developed a strong case for change, resulting in business support and buy in, providing a crucial “set of rails” for the design and to drive value from the change.

Proactively engaged executive and country leadership sponsorship, to focus the solution on business value by addressing real problems, delivered through rapid assessment and prioritisation of business needs and identifying underlying barriers to delivery of the portfolio.

Communicating benefits, target outcomes and clear line of sight to value realised, increasing stakeholder support, momentum and buy in.

Using agreed drivers of change, a value-based focus on business problems and rapid development process, quickly gained cross functional support for solution to tee up delivery of benefits.

Agile & Business Oriented Approach

Focus on business led outcomes as central to achieving outstanding value.

Used knowledge of previous delivery approaches to put in place structure and process to positively engage stakeholders across geographies.

Leading on agile ways of working to maximise return on investment and support longevity through developing and establishing new capabilities – including business value prioritisation, backlog management & prioritisation.

Business value led balance of local vs regional and global needs to manage complexity and support rapid delivery.

Further elevating the profile of IT as a highly collaborative business partner.

Exemplar Delivery

Led programme with energy and pace providing focus and momentum.

Roadmap development with proactive elevation of key decisions, to enable rapid decision making and continuity of momentum throughout.

Brought global teams together, secured consensus on competing needs to maximise overall benefits and value.

Leveraged significant experience of global technology enabled business change to spot risks and issues on horizon, identify emerging bottlenecks, make preventative interventions to minimise impacts, focus on outcomes and keep on track.

Raising the bar on data quality, QA & test, user experience led design, business role in solution development, user access permissions and migration.

KEY RESULTS & LASTING IMPACT

  • Globally accessible, robust, scalable platform, enabling increased business operation throughput, whilst rapidly extending capacity via new territories & M&A.
     
  • Direct enabler of our client’s strategy to provide sustainable and affordable low carbon energy to businesses and communities.

"It’s absolutely essential, creating much needed structure"

Head of Commercial Engineering

  •  A single source of truth (for the first time) of critical development project data, removing the need for multiple systems, spreadsheets, reducing data risks, increasing data accuracy and providing significant insight, enabling informed decision making.
     
  • Key project and commercial milestones now tracked with greater Senior/ Functional leadership confidence, through the development lifecycle to continually steer the pipeline to meet target outcomes and Board level commitments, e.g. to reallocate resource, pause or accelerate.
     
  • Standard master & performance data sets allowing Leadership to more quickly and accurately gain confidence in project progress, forecast outturn positions, identify blockers to target timely interventions, to course correct, de-risking delivery and learn lessons.
     
  • Significantly enhanced insights at local project level achieved through real-time intelligence and key forecast stage gates, driving processes, allowing for more efficient working, resource planning and optimal market engagement activities.
     
  • Automating & simplifying performance reporting across geographies to improve communication of value and positioning of the pipeline to the Board & FTSE 100 parent company.
     
  • Further support to enhance credibility of the IT Function & adoption of Agile practices.
     

"As our main Development tool, everything is in there, it’s a really useful tool for coordinating between the functions"

CEO, EMEA

  • Project teams empowered via centralised data, enhancing capacity to deliver complex projects and support pipeline growth.

Marlborough: Powering global digital transformation at pace -
with unified data and agile leadership to deliver outstanding value.

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