I have had the pleasure of working with Basil for many years – he is a consummate professional and a strong Programme Manager. He is extremely thoughtful and always tries to find the most pragmatic way through difficult issues with the client’s interests at heart. I would have no problem recommending him to any organisation.
About me
Basil Crichlow, Director of Crichlow Consultancy Ltd - is a APMG Managing Successful Programmes (MSP) Advanced certified, senior business consultant with over 20 years’ Global experience in Financial Services, Investment Banking, Insurance, Oil and Gas, Intellectual Property services, Telecoms and Not-For-Profit industries across Europe, Central and North America. Experienced in leading programmes at C-Level; including defining IT strategy for TOM Enablement, Complex Digital Transformations, CRM Migrations, Global LAN/WAN & Data migrations and Risk Governance. His key strengths lie in implementing IT enabled business change programmes designed to reduce cost, meet regulatory requirements, improve performance and minimise the impact on operations. Basil is proven in managing key stakeholders, providing leadership to globally co-located teams and working with best-shore partners to develop and deliver strategic global objectives. He is a strong team player and team manager with excellent attention to detail and a pragmatic view to problem solving.
Areas of Expertise
- IT enabled Business Programme Management
- Business Transformation and Change Management
- Cloud Transformation (P2V), Storage Virtualisation, Complex Migrations
- Business Case Validation, Programme Scoping, Planning, Reporting and Governance
- Regulatory, Risk and Contingency Planning
- Benefits Realisation Management
- Data Transformation & Management
- OBIEE, BI, MDM, Data Warehousing Strategies
- Solvency II Pillar 3 Regulatory Report Support
- Health checks and Crisis Management
- Stakeholder and Vendor Management
- Sourcing and Outsourcing Analysis
- CRM and OM Integration – Salesforce.com
- Business and Financial System integration
- M&A Systems Integration
- Marketing Automation Strategies
- Major IT Migrations
- High Performance Teaming, Motivation & Development
What my clients think
Basil had the responsibility of managing a large complex migration, with multiple stakeholders and across a complex supply chain. His performance on this programme was excellent. Delivering at scale, on time and to a high level of quality with minimal business disruption. A pleasure to work with!
Basil is a highly capable and experienced IT professional. He can be trusted with managing complicated business and technology challenges and seeing them through to resolution. Basil’s professionalism and commitment to his work is exemplary. I highly recommend Basil and hope to have the pleasure to work with him again in the future.
Basil has shown himself to be a very strong programme manager and the level of professionalism he has demonstrated in trying project circumstances is a credit to him. I’d have no reservations about working with Basil in the future.
Basil is a very experienced and competent programme manager. He has excellent communication skills. I reported to Basil for a year as his deputy on a multi-million dollar, complex storage migration programme, where he led a team of over 45 staff, and he was a great mentor to me. I would happily work with him or for him again.
I’ve worked with Basil on a number of enterprise projects, he is one of the best managers that I have worked with. He is a highly effective Senior Management Professional who possesses that rare mix of business, IS and programme management. Moreover, I have found him to be extremely pragmatic and goal focused in how he applies this experience to practical customer challenges. I will definitely recommend Basil and would like to work with him in the future.
I have had the pleasure of working with Basil whilst at Reuters and was very impressed with the way he worked. Basil was the Operations Programme Manager on a very high profile project for Reuters, he was very approachable. Basil works well with everyone and always has a smile for you, I would not hesitate to work with him again.
Basil is an accomplished professional who engenders trust and confidence rapidly and works in harmony with business managers to ensure that overall programmes and individual projects all deliver against both stated objectives and evolving business needs to provide the greatest return to the business.
Basil is a solid programme manager who applies extreme effort into understanding the client’s needs and ensuring they are met through effective lifecycle management. Having worked with him over a number of years, I have no hesitation in recommending Basil as a true IT professional.
I confirm Mr Crichlow’s competence, integrity and ability to resolve daily issues effectively and efficiently. He managed global programmes under extreme situations. His ability to lead, inspire, and motivate mean that I would have no hesitation in recommending him. A real asset to the Global team.
