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Financière Nord-Américaine (FNA) : le Projet GPH (A et B) (La)

North American Financial Corporation (NAF): The MLM Project (A and B)

Case 9 65 2006 009A-B
Case published in the International Journal of Case Studies in Management, Vol. 4, No. 1
Languages : 
  • French,
  • English
  • Gestion de projets,
  • Impartition,
  • Redressement de projet,
  • Modes de gouvernance
  • Outsourcing,
  • Project recovery,
  • Project management,
  • Governance approaches
Year of production : 
2003
Registration date : 
2006-03-15
Teaching notes included : 
Yes
Case document count : 
2

À la suite de l'achat d'une entreprise concurrente, La Financière Nord-Américaine (FNA) se retrouve avec deux applications informatiques pour la gestion de ses portefeuilles d'hypothèques qui ne sont pas compatibles entre elles. De plus, ni l'une ni l'autre de ces deux applications ne permet d'absorber le volume de transaction combiné de la nouvelle entreprise. Face à ces contraintes, la FNA décide de confier la direction du projet de refonte de ses systèmes hypothécaires au directeur de sa division FNA-PC. Reconnaissant qu'il ne dispose pas à l'interne des ressources techniques nécessaires pour mener à bien le projet, le directeur donne le mandat de développement à un impartiteur qui s'engage à livrer un système renouvelé pour un montant fixe. Suivent une série d'incidents de parcours qui font que le projet connaît des dépassements catastrophiques et qui incitent l'institution à réviser ses approches de gestion de projets d'informatisation.

Following its acquisition of a competitor, North American Financial finds itself in possession of two incompatible IS applications for the management of its mortgage portfolios. In addition, neither application is capable of handling the combined volume of transactions of the new firm. Faced with these constraints, NAF calls on the manager of its NAF-BP division to head the overhaul of its mortgage management systems. Realizing that he doesn’t have the necessary in-house technical resources to carry out this project, the manager decides to outsource the development of a consolidated system to a third-party vendor that agrees to deliver a solution for a fixed price. Once underway, the project is plagued by a series of unexpected incidents that result in catastrophic cost and schedule overruns and lead the firm to review its approach to IT project management.

Primary domain : 
Information technology
Secondary domain : 
Not available
Sectors : 
  • Banking and financial services
Source : 
HEC Montréal
Type : 
Traditional case 
Type of data used in the production of the case : 
Undefined
Event location : 
Canada
Year of start of the event : 
2002
Year the event ended : 
Not available
Business size : 
6000 employés