Director - Simon Evans

An IT Professional with 18 years experience in the global Pharmaceutical industry in a wide variety of roles both in IT and Corporate Communications.  He has a proven track record of driving the global adoption of key eBusiness Technologies to deliver effective knowledge, governance and communication strategies.  An experienced internal consultant able to influence senior management to approve and support Internet and intranet projects. 

Simon can make the following contributions to organisations:

• Setting the course to make an idea become reality
• Influencing thinking within management by envisioning ideas and developing clarity of vision
• Providing focus on benefit realisation to help change the status quo
• Developing the Big Picture view and understanding the relationships between each part to the whole
• Developing metrics and their use to demonstrate ROI and benefit realisation
• An independent thinker who looks to future needs by driving change

In his various roles within the Pharmaceutical industry, Simon has gained specific hands on experience in the following areas:

• Developing corporate strategy for intranet services
• Developing Content Strategies and Information Architectures
• Change management
• IT service management (Developing, running and maintaining)
• Information Architecture - organising content and navigation to optimise intellectual property value and user experience
• Internal Consultancy to assist businesses to drive the take up of Intranet services
• Business analysis and the specifying of solutions to match requirements
• Influencing senior management to adopt central solutions
• Developing metrics and their use to demonstrate ROI and benefit realisation
• Developing Corporate Communications strategy around the use of intranet and internet communications channels
• Project & Programme management

Most recent roles:

• Intranet strategy consultant for a major global logistics company
• Employee Portal strategy consultant for a major Global Pharmaceutical company
• Director of Business Integration, Global eBusiness IT, GlaxoSmithKline
• Director, Web Communications, Corporate Communications, GlaxoSmithKline