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Deliver your SAP programme with the right client-side leadership.

RunFast Transformation™ is Limelight's programme delivery accelerator — providing full client-side governance, SI management, business change, and independent programme oversight throughout delivery.

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What is RunFast Transformation™?

RunFast Transformation™ is how Limelight delivers SAP programmes on the client side — taking full ownership of the workstreams that determine whether a programme succeeds or drifts.

Built on SAP Activate best practice and enhanced through over 100 programme deliveries, RunFast Transformation™ gives your organisation the governance, leadership, and business change capability it needs to get the most from its delivery partners — and from its investment.

 

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Why organisations come to us.

Programmes come to us when:

  • The SI is engaged but there's no strong client-side leadership
  • Scope is drifting and nobody is holding the SI accountable
  • The board is losing confidence in programme reporting
  • Business change and adoption aren't keeping pace with technical delivery
  • Key decisions are being made by the SI rather than the business

RunFast Transformation™ gives you:

  • A senior client-side team that governs the programme on your behalf
  • Independent SI management — scope control, milestone accountability, commercial challenge
  • Live programme visibility through Prism from day one
  • Business change and adoption owned as a delivery discipline, not an afterthought
  • Fixed-scope engagement with defined deliverables and guaranteed outcomes
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What RunFast Transformation™ delivers.

The most successful SAP programmes are led from the client side — with clear governance, active SI management, and a business that is genuinely ready to adopt the change. Here is what Limelight brings to every engagement.

  • Full programme governance and PMO leadership throughout delivery
  • SI management — scope challenge, milestone accountability, commercial governance
  • Business change leadership from design through to go-live and adoption
  • Independent programme reporting your board can trust
  • Data and integration oversight on the client side
  • Cutover planning and go-live readiness management
  • Benefits tracking and realisation governance
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What's delivered. Every time.

1

A programme that stays on track

Independent governance, active SI management, and live programme visibility that keeps delivery honest throughout — not just at steering committee meetings.

Outcome
No surprises. No drift.

2

A business that's genuinely ready

Business change, training, and adoption managed as a delivery discipline from day one — so your people are ready to work in the new way when the system goes live.

Outcome
Adoption from day one, not month six.

3

Benefits that actually land

A benefits register defined before delivery starts, tracked throughout, and owned by the business — so the investment your board approved is the outcome you actually deliver.

Outcome
Value realised, not just reported.

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Our unique, automated suite that makes your transformation transparent.
  • Live programme visibility
  • Business focussed interface
  • Tracking and Readiness checks
  • Board-ready reporting
  • From day one of your transformation delivery

RunFast Transformation™ in action.

Harrods

Harrods had been an SAP customer for twenty years. The technology had served the business well — but the leadership team recognised it was time to modernise, taking full advantage of the latest SAP capabilities to support the next phase of the business.

The Future Retail programme was a complete greenfield reimplementation of the entire Harrods SAP footprint — a full redesign of retail, supply chain, and financial processes, delivered against an aggressive timeline of under eighteen months.

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Mundipharma

Mundipharma had embarked on a large scale global business transformation with a view to setting themselves up for growth in the digital economy. This involved standardising across global business units, consolidating legacy ECC systems, adopting best practices and centralising key activities, all facilitated by the deployment of SAP S/4HANA.
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Informa had contracted a delivery partner to deliver a large-scale global SAP transformation programme. The programme was progressing on plan — but Informa recognised that the most complex and highest-risk elements sat on the client side: business change, integration architecture, and a meticulous global cutover across multiple geographies.

They needed an independent expert team to own these workstreams — someone who could work alongside their partner without conflict of interest, and ensure the business was genuinely ready to receive the new system.

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Where does RunFast Tranformation™ fit?

RunFast Transformation is for programmes in delivery. Here is what comes before and after.
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Start your programme right

Haven't started yet? RunFast Launchpad gets your programme transformation-ready before the SI is engaged — business case, scope, and foundations in place.

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Assess a programme already running

Already in a programme without the right foundations? RunHealthy gives you an independent view of where you stand and what needs to change.

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Sustain the value after go-live

Programme complete? RunBetter helps you sustain and improve the value of your SAP investment long after the programme team has left.

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Questions we get asked.
How does Limelight manage the SI relationship throughout delivery without duplicating cost?

Our role and the SI's are genuinely distinct. The SI implements the technology. Limelight governs the programme on your behalf — managing scope, overseeing quality, facilitating decisions, leading business change, and providing independent assurance. Strong client-side governance typically reduces overall programme cost: better scope control and faster decisions mean less rework.

There is no duplication because we are performing work the SI cannot credibly do for itself: independent challenge of their own delivery.
What real-time visibility will we have of programme health, risk and progress?

Limelight's Prism platform provides independent, real-time programme visibility: risks, issues, decisions, milestone progress, and value delivery in a single view accessible to your leadership team. It removes your dependence on SI reporting, which is structurally incentivised to show progress rather than reflect operational reality.

Prism is a programme intelligence platform, not a reporting tool. It ensures the right people have the right information to make the right decisions throughout the lifecycle.
How do we maintain programme governance without adding bureaucracy that slows delivery down?

Good governance creates pace — it does not slow it down. Programmes stall when decisions are made at the wrong level, risks surface too late, and accountability for actions is unclear. Limelight's governance model is designed to be proportionate: light enough for fast movement, robust enough to prevent the drift and rework that causes real delay.

The goal is a structure where every team member knows what they are responsible for, decisions happen at pace, and problems surface early — when they are cheap to fix.
How can I ensure the SAP system is properly integrated with other systems and applications?

Integration is consistently one of the highest-risk elements of an SAP transformation — and one of the areas where SIs most commonly underestimate complexity at the point of sale. Sound integration delivery requires: a comprehensive integration landscape mapped before design begins; clear responsibility for each interface; end-to-end business process testing; and integration tracked as a distinct workstream.

Limelight governs the integration workstream as part of programme oversight — ensuring it does not become the hidden risk that surfaces only at go-live.

  • Full integration landscape mapped before design begins
  • Clear responsibility matrix for each integration point
  • End-to-end business process testing, not just interface testing
  • Integration tracked as a distinct workstream with its own milestones 
Does my organisation need a change freeze to legacy systems during the transformation window?

A blanket change freeze is rarely practical or necessary. The goal is to prevent design decisions being made on shifting foundations — not to prevent all change. The most effective approach is a Change Advisory Board spanning both the programme and BAU, with a triage process for assessing whether proposed BAU changes affect programme scope and design.

Governing this formally prevents both unnecessary constraint on the business and unmanaged design drift in the programme.
How can I ensure user adoption of the new SAP system?

Adoption is determined long before go-live. Organisations that treat user adoption as a training programme in the final months consistently underperform their benefit forecasts. The factors that drive adoption are: understanding why the change is happening; involvement in design rather than presentation of a finished system; genuine system confidence before go-live; and visible leadership reinforcement.

Limelight builds these conditions into business change delivery from the start — not as a final-mile activity but as a continuous workstream.
What is the first step to working with Limelight?

The first step is a structured consultation — typically sixty to ninety minutes — in which we understand your programme's current position, objectives, and the specific challenge you are trying to solve. We will be direct about whether and how Limelight can help. There is no commitment required and no proposal pushed before that conversation.

Most engagements begin with RunFast Launchpad for organisations at the start of their journey, or a RunHealthy Assessment for programmes already running. We will tell you clearly which starting point fits your situation — including if neither is right for you.
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Every RunFast Transformation™ engagement starts with a conversation. We'll listen, ask the right questions, and tell you honestly whether and how we can help.
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