Upgrading and refreshing a legacy platform to accommodate future growth
Industry: Food Tech
How we helped: Product delivery, Leadership and Transformation
Key Takeaways
Successfully merged three departments into one – leading to economies of scale
Ensured greater transparency so that teams could focus on areas of the highest business value
Created better visibility and alignment across product and technology
About The Company
This online food delivery company connects tens of millions of customers with over 580,000 local restaurants through its various in-country websites and apps. The company currently operates across Eurpoe, Australasia, North America, South America and Israel.
The company facilitates the online ordering, payment and increasingly, fulfilment of orders. It utilises a hybrid model which builds on its marketplace heritage with logistics capability. This model ensures consumers have the widest possible variety of restaurants to order from.
Founded in the early 2000’s, they led the charge for over a decade leading to successful mergers, with revenue currently over €2 billion per annum. Despite the success however, the company faces continued threat from competitors in multiple markets.
“101 Ways helped restructure their product and technology for the better. Achieving increased economies of scale and enabling it to internationlise the product. This set the company on the path to global success”
Kelly Waters
Founder, 101 Ways
The Challenge
The online food company had experience rapid growth over recent years. Unfortunately, some organisational decisions were causing the product delivery function to diverge rather than come together. Although teams had a considerable amount of autonomy to decide what to work on, they weren’t clear on the wider business goals. This meant they were often found going off in different directions. Subsequently, there were a mixture of over 300 objectives and key results (OKRs) across the business.
“This situation, coupled with a general lack of visibility and accountability across the organisation, meant that the product was suffering. Luckily, the introduction of a new CTO presented the perfect opportunity to address it,” explained Kelly Waters, Founder, 101 Ways.
The Solution
101 Ways provided four experienced executives and director level consultants to work alongside the online food delivery company’s various heads of technology and product to implement agile ways of working throughout the business. In addition, 101 Ways helped identify the key business priorities for the organisation including:
- Speed & reliability of service
- Global rebrand
- A platform that would work across multiple territories
- Order transparency
- Mobile first
101 Ways then helped the teams to align their OKRs in line with these business priorities, enabling everyone to move in the same direction.
“101 Ways helped restructure their product and technology for the better. Achieving increased economies of scale and enabling it to internationlise the product. This set the company on the path to global success,” added Waters.
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