Final Preparation Over, One Week to Go to the Virgin Active London Triathlon 2012 and Almost £2,000 Raised for Sparks
September 16, 2012 by Ivan Snell
Snell Consultancy Director, Ivan Snell, completed his fourth and final`warm up’ triathlon, the Lidl BananaMan Triathlon, at the beautiful Eton Dorney Lake over the week end of the 15th / 16th September. He successfully completed the race, made up of an 800m swim, 31.8km bike ride and 7.5km run in just under two hours. This was the final event in a six month training plan to prepare Ivan for the Olympic distance at the Virgin Active London Triathlon 2012 on Sunday 23rd September.
Speaking after the race Ivan said: “It went really well. I felt a lot more comfortable in the water than I did the last time I competed here in May. London is going to be a completely different event with so many people racing, there are over 500 starting with me in my wave, and the distances for the Olympic event are longer but it is really great to have now completed everything I set out to do this year in preparation for the big day. I have had amazing support also from my family, friends and work colleagues. We have nearly, so nearly, reached the target of £2,000 in sponsorship for Sparks for children’s health and there is still one week to go!”
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Race |
Finish |
Swim |
Cycle |
Run |
Overall Pos’ |
Cat’ Pos’ |
| 09-Apr-12 Thames Turbo Sprint Race #1 |
01:26:55 |
00:11:07 |
00:45:31 |
00:24:04 |
302 / 506 |
50 / 92 |
| 19-May-12 Eton Super Sprint |
01:16:27 |
00:08:49 |
00:40:14 |
00:22:15 |
338 / 766 |
67 / 168 |
| 15-Jul-12 Upton Upon Severn Sprint |
01:12:54 |
00:02:45 |
00:43:31 |
00:23:50 |
37/131 |
19/52 |
| 15-Sept-12 Eton Lidl BananaMan Sprint |
01:59:37 |
00:16:42 |
01:01:43 |
00:35:36 |
124 / 271 |
19 /41 |
Ivan Snell is raising money for the Sparks for children’s health charity by racing in the Virgin Active Olympic distance (1,500 swim/40k cycle/10k run) London triathlon on 23rd September 2012. He has been racing in a number of shorter distances `super sprint’ and `sprint’ triathlons this summer as training for the big event. For more information on Snell Consultancy charity fund raising please go here. For the opportunity to sponsor Ivan please visit his Sparks charity fund raising page here.
SAP BPC Planning & Forecasting Business Transformation, Programme Managed by the Snell Consultancy, Selected as a Finalist in the BCS & Computing UK IT Industry Awards 2012
September 16, 2012 by Ivan Snell
A planning & forecasting business transformation programme which the Snell Consultancy programme managed for a global oil & gas company headquartered in London, UK, has been selected as a Finalist in the BCS & Computing UK IT Industry Awards 2012 – Project Excellence Section. We are delighted for our client and for SAP that this programme has been selected as one of the finalists out of the 476 entries to this year’s Awards and proud to have taken such a leading role in its successful delivery.
It represents an extremely well deserved accolade for all three organisations. In the words of Stuart Sumner, Editor of Computing: “The UK IT Industry Awards are rigorously judged and to be announced as a finalist is a great achievement.”
David Clarke MBE, Chief Executive Officer, BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, said: “Congratulations to the finalists; they can be proud of their achievements in reaching this stage of our prestigious Awards. Through the Awards we aim to demonstrate not only the innovation and professionalism of those working in IT but also the importance of IT in delivering business and social benefit.”
The BCS & Computing UK IT Industry Awards are a platform for the entire profession to celebrate best practice, innovation and excellence.
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Global Energy Market Leader – Global SAP Business Objects Planning & Consolidation (BPC) Implementation, Finance Organisation
June 19, 2012 by Ivan Snell
Snell Consultancy is pleased to announce the live implementation of a business transformation programme for one of its global clients. The programme, delivers the next generation planning and forecasting solution for a global energy market leader. The solution took twelve months in total to design, build and deploy and is enabled by SAP® BPC™ 7.5 for NetWeaver, (a part of SAP’s Enterprise Performance Management, EPM, portfolio). BPC™ is now in live use by the global energy market leader’s community of finance planning and cost centre managers across five continents in over 25 countries. BPC will enable the organisation to accurately and effectively aggregate bottom up financial planning and forecasting data into a single version of the truth to inform corporate strategy and investor communications.
Snell Consultancy Director Ivan Snell managed the programme delivery involving a team of over fifty SAP specialist consultants responsible for the BPC™ solution build and integration, client and contract staff. He said: “this has been a remarkable achievement for everyone including our Blue Chip British client, a world leader in natural gas, SAP (UK) and the Snell Consultancy. At this time it is the largest SAP® BPC™ deployment in the world delivered with SAP as the integration partner. BPC replaces our client’s legacy solution with improved reporting capabilities and the benefits of a unified, predictive performance platform that delivers core business forecasting and planning process functionality and features from a single enterprise-scale application and database.”
Such large scale global programmes are highly complex and carry substantial levels of risk to the businesses that undertake them. Snell Consultancy’s provision of interim capability addressed the complexity and mitigated the risks through effective engagement with all impacted stakeholders, forming a strong integrated winning team, setting up an effective programme organisation governance structure and tightly managing the integration partner’s delivery against its’ contractual obligations.
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Ivan Snell’s Training Pays Off with a PB Time at Eton Super Sprint Triathlon, 19th May 2012, and Over £1,000 Raised for Sparks
May 22, 2012 by Ivan Snell
In only his second triathlon ever Snell Consultancy director, Ivan Snell, beat his previous
triathlon `super sprint’ time by over ten minutes. The race took place on Saturday 19th May at the fantastic Dorney Lake, which will be one of the venues for the 2012 Olympics.
Speaking about the race and his first open water swim in a lake Ivan said: “despite the new experience of swimming in the cold, twelve degree, water of Dorney Lake compared to the twenty-eight degrees of Hampton pool for my first tri, with no visibility and having to navigate my way amongst eight-four other competitors in my wave, I was out of the water quicker than my first race”. Ivan continued: “there were times, though, at the start of the swim, that the thought of quitting did cross my mind. I am glad I didn’t though as I finished in a much quicker time overall than my last warm up race and I knew I could not let down everyone who has sponsored me so far’.
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Race |
Finish |
Swim |
Cycle |
Run |
Overall Pos’ |
Cat’ Pos’ |
| 09-Apr-12 Thames Turbo Sprint Race #1 |
01:26:55 |
00:11:07 |
00:45:31 |
00:24:04 |
302 / 506 |
50 / 92 |
| 19-May-12 Eton Super Sprint |
01:16:27 |
00:08:49 |
00:40:14 |
00:22:15 |
338 / 766 |
67 / 168 |
Ivan Snell is raising money for the Sparks for children’s health charity by racing in the Virgin Active Olympic distance (1,500 swim/40k cycle/10k run) London triathlon on 23rd September 2012. He is racing in a number of shorter distance `super sprint’ triathlons this summer as training for the big event. For more information on Snell Consultancy charity fund raising please go here. For the opportunity to sponsor Ivan please visit his Sparks charity fund raising page here.
Snell Consultancy Sponsors Entry to AAM Cowes Week 2011
May 17, 2011 by Ivan Snell
Snell Consultancy is proud to announce that it will be supporting the entry of a J109 into this year’s Aberdeen Asset Managment Cowes Week between the 6th and the 12th of August.
TeamSnell participates in a number of regattas and competes in events over the course of a year on various yachts but this will be the first time that it has supported an entry into the Aberdeen Asset Management Cowes Week as it is now known. Ivan Snell, one of the founding directors of The Snell Consultancy said: “given the competitive nature of the J109 one design fleet in the UK and the new phase of the regatta with Aberdeen Asset Management onboard for the first time, this will really be a great event this year”.
There is the opportunity to join Snell directors, our key partners, customers and suppliers in sampling the traditions, charm and unique atmosphere of the World’s oldest, largest, most famous and most fun annual yachting regatta.