Advisory

An independent, fact-based assessment for an inflight project or program to understand whether it is on track to deliver its stated benefits, and if not, provide a series of practical recommendations to get it back on track.

Projects and programs aren’t easy. They all carry risks, issues and challenges. If you sense something isn’t right, remember the value identifying and addressing problems early versus the potential cost of being blindsided more than outweighs the cost of assurance activities.

An independent and fact-based assessment that confirms whether your transformation is delivering it’s intended value and practical steps to bring any struggling initiatives back on track. [Learn more]

An independent and fact-based assessment confirms whether your merger integration is progressing in a way that will see you realise synergies as planned.

Where Mergers expressly rely on achieving synergies through integration to succeed, execution takes on heightened importance. [Learn more]

Expert assessments providing practical and pragmatic recommendations on current vs target maturity of your strategy execution across the following areas:

– PMO / TMO

– Project Management

– Program Management

– Business Planning & Performance Management

– Portfolio Planning

– Delivery & Governance Frameworks

Strategy execution delivers through a number of different areas of the business. Establishing the right level of maturity and capability in these areas is key to successfully delivering on your objectives. An external review helps identify needed changes and provides a clear improvement plan.

When high-value strategic projects or programs require remediation, and you lack the internal capability to turn it around, external intervention will be needed.

Our seasoned practitioners move swiftly (and tactfully) to develop and apply appropriate recovery plans and actions to address cost/time/scope expectations, enabling the project or program to be course corrected to achieve its objectives.

To realise the full potential of the merger transaction, it’s critical to design an integration program of work that will deliver the synergies as well as organisational changes required. Depending upon the type of planned synergies and the level of integration required to achieve them, a program of work may be quite complex but demand speedy completion.

Documents program scope, a roadmap, governance & delivery approaches, relevant charters, and benefits realisation plans as well as likely investment outlay required to successfully deliver the Merger Integration.

Flowing from strategy and together with your leadership team, we help you define the desired outcomes for your transformational program. Designed from the top-down, assesses the business process and capability impacts of the program and defines the accountability for delivering the outcomes. Our team then works to develop the structure and timing of the initiatives required.

Give your transformational initiatives the best possible chance of success by ensuring they are set-up with clear accountability, well-defined outcomes and with a focus on delivering business value.

The art and science that goes into writing a quality business case can be accelerated by using experienced implementation specialists. Whether short or long form, business questions can be analysed and a business case developed in collaboration with your organisation’s managers, letting them focus on what they’re trying to achieve rather than the detailed case analysis work.

A review of the initiatives, both planned and in-flight to ensure alignment with organisational strategy as well as benefits and delivery risk measures. Practical recommendations are presented for optimising the business value captured from current and future initiatives.  This may include initiative re-prioritisation, capability, capacity or organisational design & improvement recommendations or methodology and approach changes. This is a review of your investment to ensure the delivery of a maximum value portfolio.

Organisations face all manner of constraints which impact upon their ability to execute effectively. The ability to prioritise for optimal use of resources whilst managing those constraints is a key capability required for this era of rapid and sustained change. The ability to effectively execute towards a set of outcomes but retain business agility, adapting to changing conditions and re-prioritising in a way that continues to deliver planned benefits is key to continued success in towards competitive environment.

Gain the ability to rapidly respond to change. Whether your organisation is trying to implement Agile frameworks at the team level or needing help with strategic business agility and OKRs, outside help is often needed.

We provide consulting on how agile ways of working can be applied to your business as well as coaching to help embed the required cultural and working practice changes.

Close the gap between your ambitions and performance. Beyond the strategic planning process, your strategy execution office becomes the central point for coordinating and facilitating all strategy execution. Unlike your PMO, the strategy execution office is often led by an executive, focussed on aligning the executive team and increasing dialogue about priorities and key business issues as well as focussing the organisation, enabling decision making, driving accountability and breaking down silos.

PMOs can contribute significantly to the successful delivery of any organisation’s project portfolio as well as provide clear project & decision information to executives & management. Whether embarking on initial setup of a PMO or looking to improve and refresh performance of one or more existing PMOs, we provide specialist advice and support in PMO setup and operations.

Development of frameworks based on best practice and tailored to suit your particular delivery, decision-making and governance environment. An appropriately designed framework and associated templates enables your organisation to deliver projects & programs in a consistent manner, involve the right teams, drive performance and surface management information to improve decision making.

Once your framework is in place, we provide independent advice on a variety of PPM systems, their selection, and how they are best configured for the needs of your organisation. Organisations often have one or more systems already in use, but there are challenges with integration, information ownership and alignment with governance & investment frameworks and tools.

Decrease project & program failure, improve consistency and dependability by aligning structure, processes and the right systems for your organisation.