What’s the value in strategic programme management?
There are good reasons to build the strategic programme management capability in your organisation.
Here are just a few of them:
Programme strategy – Make sure that the purpose, size and structure of the programme is suitable for the outcomes required, and that there is a clear understanding of the organisational drivers.
Programme design – Create the correct programme structures to deliver successfully, and ensure the processes needed to manage the programme are in place.
Programme and project execution – Ensure that your programme is structured and then managed to deliver on its strategic objectives, rather than only ensuring delivery of tasks.
Systems integration, core system replacement, process improvement, business consolidation, cost reduction – Ensure that the full extent of change in these programs is understood and recognised. Identify where, why and how to manage them as a programme of work to ensure wider organisational issues are managed.
Control - Ensure that success criteria are established, agreed and measurable. A well defined programme review process will pick up projects before they derail. Good control extends through to programme finalisation to ensure the desired business benefits are achieved.