Taylor Wimpey

Dataquest’s partnership with Taylor Wimpey

Taylor Wimpey is one of the U.K.’s leading housebuilders. A FTSE 100 company, Taylor Wimpey turned over £4.34 billion in 2019. The company has been a client of Dataquest’s for over 10 years. In 2020, Dataquest helped Taylor Wimpey improve business agility by rapidly deploying nearly 4000 newly configured client devices.

“The success of this project allowed the company to adopt agile homeworking practices as soon as the Covid-19 pandemic hit. Well done Dataquest on a large project, well executed.”

Andy Feldon, IT Director, Taylor Wimpey

Implementation

Dataquest’s Managed Services Department formed a project team to manage the enterprise-wide deployment of technology and to provide training and support for users. Working with executive stakeholders, the project team developed a proving process and engaging strategies to connect with 4,000 staff members.

Having refined the hardware and build requirements, a proof of concept was implemented at a pilot site. Following a successful proof of concept, the solution was deployed in two regional offices. This provided the detailed project and logistics information which enabled Dataquest to finesse plans for a company-wide rollout.

Dataquest created two project teams with senior team leaders reporting to a Managed Services leader to oversee the intricate timing and logistics challenges.

After each deployment at a rate of two locations per week, old devices were disposed of securely. In-depth training sessions were delivered over three days to each location by 2 dedicated IT trainers.

Thousands of new client devices, including notebooks, monitors, docking stations and peripherals were supplied. The teams also repurposed hundreds of existing devices. The team worked with staff to backup personal data, ready for copying to new devices.