Financial Services: OCM Solution

Business Case:

A mortgage lending client needed to significantly transform its Mortgage operations, which represented the largest system, technology, and business process change in the company’s history.  Mortgage Transformation goals were to implement a fast, efficient process, a Product and Pricing Engine to empower professionals to anticipate customer needs and facilitate decisioning at point of sale, and to leverage processes and tools to enable customers to fulfill mortgage transactions on their own schedule.

The Mortgage Transformation program involved improving the company's process and technological capabilities, moving them closer to their goal of being a Top 5 originator by 2015 and #1 in service quality (as determined by JD Power and Associates).  The client required timely, consistent communications to its field staff, coupled with thorough internal and external training, in order to build and maintain internal and customer commitment to this large undertaking.

Solution: 

CapTech provided the national mortgage lending institution with a Business Readiness consulting team tasked with building and implementing the Change Management strategy.  In order to achieve the appropriate results and effectively communicate to an impacted audience of over 5,000 people, a Communication Plan was created and executed.  Specific activities in the plan called for CapTech Consultants to create detailed communication kits to educate and inform the end users, to analyze and report pilot assessment results, to distribute corporate-wide communications throughout the program, and to facilitate presentations for “All-Hands” and Leadership Meetings.

Tools: 
  • Communication Plans
  • Communication Kits
  • Assessment Survey
  • Assessment Survey Reporting Tools
Results: 
  • CapTech’s Change Management tools and best practices ensured a successful Communication Implementation; this allowed the client to replace a National Consulting Firm, thereby reducing the client’s monthly burn rate by $120,000.
  • CapTech was able to quickly identify weaknesses with the previous Communication effort and guide the client through the necessary tasks required for success.
  • Proper communication planning and execution ensured appropriate audiences were prepared and informed of the upcoming Mortgage Transformation effort.