S$370,000 a year, from one platform

A global manufacturer with a head office in Switzerland, five departments running projects five different ways, and nobody able to see the whole picture. I was the non-technical intern who built the thing that fixed it.

Every status question meant a meeting, and every meeting produced a slide instead of an answer. The reporting was not the real problem. Five teams kept five versions of the truth, and reconciling them was somebody's full time job.

Stage	What I did	Output
Map	Sat with all five departments and wrote down how each one really tracked work.	Five ways of working, on paper
Agree	Got the five to agree one shape for a project, which was the hard part and none of it was technical.	One definition everyone signed
Build	Built the platform on SharePoint with JSON configuration, inside their own environment, with no new vendor.	200+ projects in one place
Automate	Wired the reporting so the executive view builds itself from the same data people already enter.	Reporting with no reporting work
Adopt	Ran the change work: training, floor-walking, and fixing what annoyed people in the first weeks.	Five departments actually using it

• S$370,000 a year, measured by the business itself at handover as CHF 244,000.
• Delivery got three months faster against the previous year's cycle.
• It is still running today, years after the person who built it left.

The software was the small half. Getting five departments to agree on what a project even is was the work, and no tool does that for you. Every engagement since starts with the same question: who has to agree before this can be built.