Recruitment and business transformation case studies
Explore how Robert Half helps organisations overcome complex hiring and transformation challenges. From large-scale ERP implementations to securing specialist finance and technology talent, these case studies showcase how our recruitment expertise and partnership with Protiviti deliver measurable business outcomes.
Spotlight: ERP transformation
Learn how Venture Life Group worked with Robert Half and Protiviti to deliver a successful Microsoft Dynamics 365 ERP implementation. This client story explores how combining consulting expertise with specialist recruitment helped accelerate delivery, overcome resource challenges and support a complex business transformation.
Daniel Wells (00:00)
I first came out of practice when I qualified as a Chartered Accountant back in my late teens, early twenties and I was approached by Robert Half with an interest to getting into industry. Roll on ten years or so I became a client of Robert Half myself. Predominant contact we use is Sebastian Bentley out of the Reading and Berkshire offices. We also work with Luke Edgecombe as well. So, Sebastian bothered to turn up at the door with Luke, met us in person, discussed our business, understood our business properly, understood the team,
asked relevant questions, I've always felt when I was placing a role with Seb that he made sure he presented a candidate that was fit for purpose for the role and not just another candidate. the relationship has continued.
Daniel Rocker (00:40)
My original engagement with Robert Half had them placing me and it was a little bit of an unusual one. What they ended up placing me into was slightly different. It had looked at the real substance of what I was looking for rather than the title and rather the responsibilities and ended up being an absolutely perfect placement for me. I've been at Venture Life ever since and Robert Half has become our supplier of choice.
Tom Golding (01:01)
Seb
Bentley is someone that really values the relationship and really wants to understand what their clients are going through in terms of their challenges, their general direction of travel, their aspirations, and it was through conversations that Seb had that he unearthed the potential transformation plans that Venture Life are about to embark.
Daniel Rocker (01:21)
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By the time we got to October 24, we had probably about six or seven different legacy ERPs in place. It was creating a real bottleneck to our ability to report on a regular basis. But what really ended up setting Protiviti apart was twofold. The first one is that they were very quick to engage with how agile Venture Life is as a business. They were adamant from the outset that timetables could be flexed. The other element of it was just how strong a team they put forward.
At the leadership level, we were dealing with Mahendra who is an incredibly experienced individual.
Mahendra Ballasaria (01:58)
Venture Life was already talking to a Big Four and it was important for Protiviti to demonstrate the responsiveness, the agility in terms of our response to the client and showing the value upfront were some of the key differentiators which the client really appreciated.
YoYo Chan (02:18)
We have sourced a Business Project Manager and then a Business Analyst as well from Robert Half to support the program delivery. Bringing in additional PM and BA definitely helped the delivery of the engagement because it kind of provides clients the right technical support. So having those additional support definitely help our clients and then that also engage kind of increase or have better communications with our delivery team as well, because then we have dedicated point of contact.
Daniel Rocker (02:45)
The impact has been nothing short of transformative. We have gone from a completely fragmented ERP solution to a single source of truth in a single ERP with one way of working. Putting in D365 has allowed us to leverage the wider Microsoft suite.
Our Chief Technology Digital Officer is starting to work with the business on how we can bring in other financial information, other non-financial information, and start to build true market insights with this quality ERP as its foundation. And that's even before we start talking about AI and machine learning and all of the things that are in the pipeline to come. The opportunity is absolutely enormous.
Tom Golding (03:25)
When I look back
on our relationship with Venture Life Group, I'm immensely proud of firstly our delivery but also immensely proud of how we work together both from a Protiviti and Robert Half perspective but jointly how we work together with Venture Life Group.
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