PROGRAMME ENABLEMENT

EVERYDAY CHALLENGES

Successful project management is a critical driver of business growth and maintaining a sustainable competitive advantage. Reasons for using Adept Advisory’s Project Management Services:

• Experienced project management resourcing for a major project
• Project has gone off course, is behind schedule or over budget
• Delivery of critical project critical milestones
• Numerous interrelated projects
• Tight coordination of multiple business functions
• Independent project management interface to 3rd parties

THE ADEPT ADVISORY SOLUTION

• A scalable, cost effective approach to managing a wide range of projects: Business transformation, cost reduction initiatives, system implementations and strategic change.
• Our practical approach uses integrated processes, tools and templates to plan, manage, control and execute change-enablement projects.
• We align our methodology to the Project Management Institute’s (PMI) Project Management Body-of- Knowledge (PMBOK).
• Our experienced team is skilled at managing individual projects or programmes with multiple project interfaces.

OUR DELIVERABLES

Our project management solutions include:

• Project Management Office (PMO) implementation
• Project and programme management
• Sustainable change management framework
• Business case development support
• Defined project scope and objectives.
• Project timeline and work plan
• Risk and issue management plans
• Detailed milestone and status reporting
• Communications plan and post implementation review

SUSTAINABLE BENEFITS FOR YOUR ORGANIZATION

• Sound project governance infrastructure and support
• Significantly increases the probability of project succes
• Retained focus on core business
• Reduced costs and timely project completion
• Enhanced coordination, effectiveness and productivity
• Improved stakeholder satisfaction and employee morale

OUR SOLUTION

Our Project Portfolio Management Services Solution provides a scalable, cost-effective approach for organisations to manage their portfolio of projects and operational activities with an efficient, coordinated approach that optimizes resource capacity to achieve organisational goals.

Successful project portfolio management (PPM) is a critical enabler of business growth by aligning project selection, prioritisation and limited resources allocations with the strategic goals of the organisation.

It also supports maintaining synergies both between projects and across projects and operational activities to ensure successful delivery.

Our approach uses a set of integrated processes, tools and templates to plan, manage control and execute on establishing and supporting project portfolio management capabilities.

OUR DELIVERABLES

Our PPM solution offering includes the following elements:

• Sustainable PPM Governance framework
• Establishing PPM within a Project Management Office (PMO)
• PPM tool selection and implementation
• Project portfolio selection and prioritisation to support strategy
• Resource capacity planning and management
• Balancing the portfolio of work across projects and business as usual
• Applying PPM to support project execution

CHALLENGES YOU MIGHT FACE

• Require tight coordination of limited resources across numerous interrelated projects and operational activities
• Require an experienced project portfolio management solution for a major organisational change
• Require experienced resources for PPM tool selection and implementation
• Lack independent project portfolio management resource to facilitate project selection and prioritisation between multiple business areas

SUSTAINABLE BENEFITS FOR YOUR ORGANISATION

• Optimised demand management of work
• Optimised resource capacity planning of limited resources
• Sound PPM governance infrastructure and support
• Significantly increases the success of projects supporting the organisation’s strategic goals
• Methodical approach to project evaluation, selection, prioritisation and sequencing
• Focus on core business and operational effectiveness without the distraction of resource allocation management
• Enhanced coordination, effectiveness and productivity
• Improved stakeholders’ satisfaction and employee morale

EVERYDAY CHALLENGES

Agile Leadership has become an intrinsic part of business planning and decision making. This requires the right people, processes and buy-in from all employees.

There is increasing pressure to:

• Integrate and improve collaboration in order to deliver tangible value, more rapidly
• Abandon stringent approaches to compliance and risk mitigation
• Adapt processes to changing business needs

THE ADEPT ADVISORY SOLUTION

Adept Advisory can assist in developing a customized Agile solution based on varying organizational needs:

• Establishing flexible platforms for decision making
• Innovative ways of communicating
• Driving cultural change through specific practices and behaviours
• Defining behaviours, practices and metrics that drive focus
• Our professionals in risk, process design, people management, planning and strategy can augment your workforce and adopt the right approach and methodology to suit your needs

OUR DELIVERABLES

Our deliverables are typically tailored to our clients’ requirements and include, amongst others:

• Developing a bespoke Agile methodology that encourages full employee engagement
• Providing an engagement model to ensure leadership support
• Providing tools to encourage engagement of specialist areas
• Providing training for the team on key Agile principles and the Agile mindset
• Embedding risk management in business processes

SUSTAINABLE BENEFITS FOR YOUR ORGANIZATION

• Our Agile leadership competency equips leaders to drive and sustain organizational change
• Operational excellence is achieved by empowering individuals and teams to reach their greatest potential
• Drive collaboration and co-ownership of objectives across the organization
• Change behaviour to focus on business criticality
• Enable faster business value delivery
• Create a flexible mindset that readjusts based on business priorities

EVERYDAY CHALLENGES

• Finding the balance between delivering key requirements versus business as usual
• Business politics influencing decision making
• Different maturity levels and inconsistencies within an organisation
• Obtaining business buy-in to align to organisational strategies
• Limited skillsets to meet new / additional requirements
• Resistance to change across business units in an organisation

THE ADEPT ADVISORY SOLUTION

• Business Analysis (BA) is part of Adept Advisory’s broader Programme Enablement capabilities.
• The primary focus of our BA service offering addresses the identification and analysis of internal and external business requirements.
• Our BA approach performs detailed analysis by identifying requirements by liaising with key stakeholders and subject matter experts to understand the structure, policies and operations of an enterprise. The business analysis approach identifies, defines, prioritises and implements value-add solutions that assist organisations in achieving their end-goals across all business and functional areas.

OUR DELIVERABLES

Our offering includes the following elements;

• Project charters
• Requirements assessments
• Solution designs (as-is and to-be)
• Gap analyses
• End-to-end process maps and control points
• Operating procedure frameworks
• Implementation plans
• Integration of information technology toolsets
• User acceptance testing
• Training

SUSTAINABLE BENEFITS FOR YOUR ORGANIZATION

• New business needs or requirements are discovered
• Facilitates decision making required during planning and requirements assessments
• Planning and monitoring ensures requirements are clearly defined
• Provides solution assessment and validation required for successful execution of the plan
• Facilitates alignment between business strategies and organisational strategies
• Ensures internal and external needs are met
• Prioritization ensures focus on value
• More effective implementation of new solutions into the business
• Keeping abreast with industry knowledge

OUR SOLUTION

Our Change Management Services Solution is based on a change management framework which is founded upon extensive experience with successful outcomes, enabling us to effectively leverage, integrate and focus on the required components in order to meet execution objectives.

This framework ensures appropriate strategies and engagements are applied across the entire cycle of the pre-execution, execution, and post execution phases of any organisational change effort, whether it is a single project bringing in systems and business process changes, or an organisation-wide change management programme.

Our methodology ensures we engage the right leaders and give them opportunities to develop and support the transition and its long-term goals and implications.

OUR DELIVERABLES

Our Change Management solution offering includes the following elements:

• A sustainable people and change management framework
• Tangible tools and deliverables to manage people fairly, honestly, and positively through the transition period
• Integrated leadership alignment and stakeholder engagement that empowers Senior Leadership to lead the change
• Creation of a formal coaching framework for key leadership roles and sponsors
• Definition of tailored engagement mechanisms to secure buy-in and commitment
• Internal and external stakeholder change impact measurement tool and methodology
• Change readiness assessment methodology and tools to identify an organisation’s capability to change and the change management “hot spots” or risks
• Design and execution of comprehensive communication plans

CHALLENGES YOU MIGHT FACE

• Shortage of experienced change management solution for projects and programmes bringing major organisational change
• Lack an independent change management professional to facilitate change activities across multiple business areas
• Need to assess the level of impact and change readiness in order to best support stakeholders with the change
• Require experienced resources who can take a “hands-on” approach to support the change management program
• Identifying and engaging the right leaders and giving them opportunities to develop and support the transition and its long-term goals and implications
• Require training and building capability and competency so that managers become agents of change
• Require tight coordination of change activities across numerous interrelated projects and operational activities

SUSTAINABLE BENEFITS FOR YOUR ORGANISATION

• Integrated change management strategy aligned to the organisational objectives that can be tailored to specific strategies
• A vision of the long-term change that reassures key stakeholders, including employees, customers, and other stakeholders, that success is achievable, and risk is mitigated
• Methodical approach to change impact and assessment of organisational readiness for change
• Significantly increasing the success of organisational projects supporting the organisation’s strategic goals
• Focus on core business and operational effectiveness with the assurance of skilled change management professionals on board
• Improved stakeholders’ satisfaction and employee morale