Supporting Nissan & Renault’s Strategic Rebalancing Programme

Client Background

After being partners for over 20 years, Nissan and Renault decided in 2022 to separate as part of a rebalancing of their partnership, to enable both companies to independently purse different strategies in the future. This involved a full technical and legal separation of the companies, under the banner of the Operational Governance and Anti-Trust Compliance (OGAC) Programme.

Nissan is a global automative company with a strong presence across key international markets. As such, the organisation has Production/Manufacturing and Business Units established in multiple countries. Nissan aim to increase their market share over the coming years, including an increased focus on Electrical Vehicles (EVs).

The Challenge

The 8th November 2025 was established as the separation date, referred to as Day 2. The OGAC Programme was mobilised in early 2023 to deliver this outcome.

This timeline was especially ambitious, particularly due to nature of the Nissan/Renault partnership which had developed over the years. In the AMIEO (Africa, Middle East, India, Europe and Oceania) region in particular, a decision had been made in 2015 to host all Nissan technology and services in Renault hosted datacentres, to reduce running costs for Nissan and leverage Renault datacentre capabilities.

As such, delivering the OGAC programme would require wholesale changes to the Nissan Technology Operating Model, including the acquisition of a new datacentre and all associated services.

Achieving this objective within less than 2 years was recognised as a significant undertaking. This also had to be achieved while Nissan Manufacturing activities continued, with no impact to operations expected as part of the programme.

The Solution

Strategic Consulting Limited were engaged by Nissan to deliver Programme Director Services to the OGAC Programme, to oversee and manage all aspects of the Programme, including:

• A comprehensive Programme Plan including the deliverables associated with over 80 individual projects and workstreams.

• Matrix Management of internal Nissan staff members and strategic 3rd party partners

• Operational Governance to monitor and deliver against key programme objectives.

• Alliance Governance to chair cross company governance sessions to share plans, discuss progress and manage key dependencies.

• Manage Programme Finance to ensure that OGAC budgets were managed in line with Nissan standards and to ensure allocated budgets were not exceeded.

• Execution of migration events to deliver various Datacentre, Network, Infrastructure and End User Computing (EUC) services in the new Nissan Technology environment.

• Streamlined cutover methodology, leveraging migration event skills from previous experience to include efforts and contributions from team members in multiple geographical locations.

Results & Impact

Strategic Consulting’s structured and methodical Programme Director Service resulted in:

✅ Successful delivery of the Day 2 objective, to fully separate the organisations by 8th November 2025.

✅ No impact to Production services, during the execution of the programme.

✅ Zero high impact incidents, during the multiple large scale migrations.

✅ Programme budget maintained, with budget hand-back made possible due to cost savings and Procurement negotiation.

✅ Improved Business Unit Operations, with quality services and use of consistent data enforced to streamline operations.

✅ Simplified architecture, lowering support costs for long-term efficiency.

Key Metrics

The OGAC Programme produced a number of key metrics associated with successful programme delivery:

• 60+ migration events planned and scheduled.

• 76.5 million daily transactions migrated.

• 26 new major network links implemented, with a daily bandwidth of 2TB.

• 73 AMIEO sites and Business Units migrated.

• 350 Mainframe applications migrated to Mainframe as a Service (MfaaS) solution.

• 130 Nissan partner interfaces migrated.

• 11,000 user internet connections migrated.

As a result of the successful delivery of the OGAC programme on time, within budget and with minimum disruption to the business, Nissan now benefits from operating a self-sufficient technology operating model, with new service arrangements made for all required services and products.

Testimonial

“Gary from Strategic Consulting was contracted by Nissan to perform the role of Programme Manager on a very critical and high-exposure programme called OGAC. The programme was executed under severe time constraints and pressure. Gary’s reporting and communication has been super transparent, easy to understand and to the point. His overall programme management has been great and his engagement and commitment was more than we can expect from a contractor, including working evenings and weekends. Overall, Gary’s contribution has been essential to keep the programme on track. I would hire Gary back without any doubt, and if you are looking for a professional PM, Gary should be your choice.”

Richard van der Meer, Region Vice President and CIO, Nissan Africa, Middle East, India, Europe & Oceania Information Systems