Programme and Project Management

Today’s economy is pressing organisations into major change initiatives.  Integration into new structures, fierce market competition, new technology, new regulations and deregulation, cost pressures and globalisation are creating the need to undertake an increasing number of initiatives of unprecedented complexity and with unprecedented speed.

Organisations can be brave in fronting the significant investment, only for this to be wasted due to the lack of focus, direction and poor use of senior management time. Often what is required is a change in mindset rather than immediate significant investment.

However, people’s time is precious and the pressures of performing the day job often make it difficult to take time out to focus on making improvements. This can result in a large number of initiatives failing to deliver the expected value, not being implemented effectively, not providing sustainable change, or substantially costing more and taking longer than planned.

Our Excellent Programme & Project Management team takes an end to end approach to the delivery of projects and programmes in complex organisations.  We work in joint teams to align projects with your corporate vision and the business objectives. We then transform those objectives into a coordinated portfolio of initiatives using experienced facilitators, tried and tested methods and a focus on action.

We enable the design, development and implementation of new processes, policies and systems whilst in parallel building the skills and abilities of your people through focused training, work shadowing and working in joint teams.

1. Vision to Action – Turning a corporate vision into a business strategy, and then a business strategy into programmes of work to deliver organisation objectives
2. Programme Management – Ensuring that the outcomes and the benefits set out in the programme of work are delivered and provide sustainable change to the organisation
3. Project Management – Ensuring that work packages are delivered to time, cost and quality
4. Portfolio Architecture – Helping organisations build the organisational capabilities that support challenges of large scale complex change. This in turn should enable organisations to be agile in response to their environments or markets
5. Programme Assurance and Risk management: Assurance provides greater confidence to senior management by increasing the level of control and reducing the risk of executing programmes. This increases the probability of successful delivery and achievability of intended benefits of change programmes. Programme Assurance provides management with an independent health-check of the programme.
6. Excellent PMO: The Excellent PMO solution consists of seven distinct but interconnected dimensions (programme planning & control, risk management and issue resolution, business case management, organisation and leadership, quality management, stakeholder management and communication and benefits management), which is customised for each industry. It is highly proactive, requires technical and industry excellence, and it continuously evolves over the lifecycle and to changing objectives.