Oil and gas company
When an IT system goes down, some teams barely notice and others stop. This company needed to know which was which before deciding where to invest in recovery.
Prior experience: done as part of a management consulting team, before Periscale.
The challenge
Each system owner rated their own system, so the ratings couldn’t be compared and there was no clear way to decide where recovery money should go first.
Thinking differently
The team worked with 50+ people across the business, and every service owner answered the same question: what happens if this is down for four hours? Answers were scored across five weighted areas, including financial and safety impact, and shown side by side in one dashboard.
An extraordinary result
The rankings surprised people. The CIO and leadership held each service owner to their scores, and some scores took negotiation to settle. The dashboard sorts every service into four priority levels and opens any one to show its scores and the answers behind them.
How many services sit at each level, by business group.
Every service measured against the same thresholds.
Financial, operational, regulatory, safety and reputation.
The scores, owners and answers behind any service.
How it scaled
The rankings now guide disaster recovery plans, support agreements and where to invest in resilience.
Your next step
We can rank your systems or projects by what they’re worth to the business, and give leaders a dashboard to test the trade-offs.
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