Every new strategy - no matter how large or small - needs breaking down into manageable chunks for execution. The ultimate goal is Evidence Based Policy Making, making sure the whole-life cost of implementing the strategy is thought through.
- Roadmap Business Case
- Target Operating Model
- Benefits Realisation Management
- Risk Management
- Stakeholder Management
- Programme Definition
- Portfolio Analysis
Roadmap Business Case
A robust business case is the foundation for launching a successful programme of work. Like supertankers, if you launch a programme in the wrong direction it takes a long time to realign it.
Our expert programme and portfolio managers can help you create a solid basis for change. They will work with you to produce robust business cases that depict and analyse the strategic options for implementing your programme. Whether it's shareholder accountability or public accountability, they can meet your investment appraisal guidelines, giving you the qualititive and quantitive benefits for the options.
Target Operating Model
Creating a good Target Operating Model means having specialist skills to envision the new operation and reverse engineer to the current situation. Significant changes will need to be made to your current people, processes and technology. Undertaking the creation of the TOM is a challenging activity that requires individuals who have experience of delivering new architectures for businesses similar to your own - organisations that share the same strategic drivers.
Benefits Realisation Management
Benefits realisation has been a growth industry for the last 10 years. There is a heavy mystique that surrounds it but, in truth, there are few experienced practitioners who can actually do it. It is vital to ensure that the promises in the business case are carried through to the deliverables of your programme of work. We can work with you to provide benefits realisation, helping you prove that what you are doing justifies continued expenditure on the programme.
Risk Management
Programmes and Projects of work are, by definition, unique undertakings that consume resources over a finite period of time. Because they are unique they have never been done before and therefore there is an element of risk involved. Risk Management is essential in ensuring that scarce funding is spent in an appropriate manner, programme benefits are delivered and your change outcomes are achieved.
Our experts in qualitative and quantitative risk analysis can work with you and the broader stakeholder community in order to ensure that risks are identified, ring-fenced and pro-actively managed. They ensure that risks reside with those best placed to manage them and that any residual risks are fully understood. We go beyond simply populating a static Risk Register, we ensure that dynamic risk management takes place throughout the life-cycle of your programme of change. Risk Management is a powerful and apolitical means of engaging with your stakeholders.
Stakeholder Management
People, processes and technology may all be at the heart of successful change initiatives but experience reveals that it is people who can be the biggest limiting factor. They also represent the most varied challenges.
Our expert facilitators and change managers can work with you to map the stakeholder community and analyse their degree of influence over the successful outcomes of your programme. They can help you understand their behaviour modes and, most of all, win them over to supporting you in delivering business benefits.
We design bespoke workshops and communicate in the most appropriate plain language. Our experts work at all levels within an organisation from Board level through to operational front line staff - ensuring wherever possible that stakeholder alignment takes place and remains throughout your change management lifecycle.
Programme Definition
It is essential that you undertake programme definition in a structured and defined manner to avoid launching your programme of work with ill defined success and benefits realisation criteria. We have evolved the change and programme management best practice techniques described in MSP (Managing Successful Programmes). We will work with you in order to envision, blueprint and define your programme scope of work. We will ensure that the programme fits neatly into the portfolio of programmes that underpins your business strategy. Projects will have demonstrable milestones and be brigaded in an efficient manner in order to deliver programme-level business benefits.
On behalf of clients, we have conducted some leading edge analysis of Programme Portfolio Management Capability Maturity Tools. These assess an organisation’s maturity in terms of undertaking and achieving programme outcomes. By applying these tools we will be able to help you focus on which areas of your organisation to up-skill in order to achieve successful Outcome Delivery.
Portfolio Analysis
How does my portfolio of programmes support and underpin my strategy? Are there programme elements that overlap? What can be delayed, merged, cancelled? Are there any ‘pet projects’ lurking in my organisation? How can I conduct intelligent cost reduction? How can I obtain a ‘God’s eye view’ in order to help me with my decisions?
These are all critical and pertinent questions for the current resource and funding constrained times we live in. Working in a systematic and logical manner, we can help map your legacy landscape and apply leading edge tools to help you identify and analyse options available to you. We excel at analysing complex and interdependent situations, unpicking the business benefits that are truly business critical and helping you move forward in implementing realistic restructuring.
Our expert consultants have analysed and applied leading edge Portfolio Management tools. Let them come in and help you.
