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Case Studies
Scyllogis Consulting have been helping customers within the Insurance sector continue to achieve significantly higher levels of business performance from their data management programmes and information systems since 2001. Read how we have worked with some of these customers to achieve significant business results across the world, in our case studies. Read more...

Consulting Expertise
Insurance organisations today are no more effective at delivering on large-scale data management initiatives than they were 10 years ago. In a recent survey, 70% of the companies said their data management initiatives did not deliver the expected results. That success rate was unchanged from similar surveys conducted in the 1990's. And the environment for data management is only getting more complex..... Read more

Consulting Expertise

Insurance organisations today are no more effective at delivering on large-scale data management initiatives than they were 10 years ago. In a recent survey, 70% of the companies said their data management initiatives did not deliver the expected results. That success rate was unchanged from similar surveys conducted in the 1990's. And the environment for data management is only getting more complex.....

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Our People
At Scyllogis Consulting all of our consultants have significant experience gained from within the Insurance market. Our people and our culture are our greatest assets. We only select people with relevant experience, intelligence, integrity, passion and the ambition to make a mark and deliver to our Customers the Scyllogis brand values of practical, results based consultancy. Our Consultants are pragmatic and open minded. That is why we deliver solutions that others dont..... Read More

Our People

At Scyllogis Consulting all of our consultants have significant experience gained from within the Insurance market. Our people and our culture are our greatest assets. We only select people with relevant experience, intelligence, integrity, passion and the ambition to make a mark and deliver to our Customers the Scyllogis brand values of practical, results based consultancy. Our Consultants are pragmatic and open minded. That is why we deliver solutions that others dont..... Read More

Our People

Experience

Our knowledge and understanding of the Insurance industry sits at the very core of our ability to contribute to your business.

Consequently, every member of the Scyllogis team working on your project will have a minimum of five years experience in the Insurance market. Often, this experience will be in excess of 10 years.

Many of our team have worked on insurance projects around the world. Their outlook is truly pan-global and they can be counted on to adapt effortlessly to whatever cultural diversities they might encounter on your project.

Approach

Our consultants bring a proactive, autonomous and ‘can do’ approach to your project. Their brief is to work alongside you and your in-house team in a collaborative fashion and to demonstrate ‘thought leadership’ rather than merely responding to requests.They work in a methodical, structured way, documenting their work wherever possible. In this way, we are able to impart a legacy that benefits your organisation after our task is completed.

All our programme and project managers are expected to have attained PRINCE2 qualification,. We consider that this structured approach to project management significantly reduces risk of project failure.

Collaboration

It can be difficult for a company to gain acceptance from its permanent staff for the use of consultants. Our consultants, however, have gained an admirable reputation for integrating with client staff. This results in reduced risk of failure due to the animosity of permanent staff, as well as an increase in residual knowledge as permanent staff gain valuable learning from our consultants.

Company Directors

Colin Whickman

Sarah Abbott

Colin co-founded Scyllogis Consulting in 2001 and is also the most senior consultant within the company. He has 22 years experience in insurance IT gained within supply side organizations. Before founding Scyllogis, Colin held managing board level roles within a significant insurance software and services company, where he had responsibility for managing software development and system implementation programs in Europe, North America, Bermuda and the Far East. In 1995 Colin ran the US region for this company and oversaw a 130% increase in business. In 1999 he formed a new European division that quickly won major system replacement programs for Winthertur International (Now XL Insurance), AXA and ACE.

This experience has given Colin an extensive knowledge of implementing systems within insurance (most notably GENIUS), as well as an understanding of the business of insurance not typically seen in an IT person. This means that any client can be confident that he will ensure that IT activities are not run in isolation from the business. Colin has the knowledge and confidence to challenge the business and provide 'thought leadership'. Colin’s holistic understanding of insurance means that he can critically review solution components in the context of the overall process, which is far more likely to highlight issues.

Colin has a BSc in Chemistry from London University. He lives in London.

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Sarah co founded Scyllogis Consulting in 2001 with her business partner Colin Whickman. With over 20 years experience in sales and marketing management, mostly within the IT environment of various industry sectors ranging from pharmaceuticals, sports & leisure, to the financial services sector, Sarah’s previous roles included implementation of the MRPII (Manufacturing Resource Planning) system for Glaxo Wellcome (now known as GSK), Commercial and Marketing Manager of Wembley London Ltd. (who at the time owned both Wembley Arena and Wembley Stadium), has worked in sales and marketing management for various software houses, and in the financial sector for both banks and interdealer brokers (aka money brokers) including Lloyds Bank Ltd (now Lloyds TSB), and Charles Fulton and Company, which later became part of a management buyout and was subsequently swallowed up into the company known now as Tullett Prebon. This experience has given Sarah an extensive knowledge of implementing business growth strategies into, as well as an accurate understanding of the complex issues confronting, such a diverse range of horizontal business sectors.

Within Scyllogis Consulting, Sarah is mostly responsible for setting the strategic direction of the Company and developing the marketing strategy for the Company.

Sarah lives in Hertfordshire.

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