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Sensitive to your culture

Whether we are advising on project standards or implementing an enterprise portfolio management solution, our clients trust us to be sensitive to their culture and current level of process maturity. We recommend approaches that give material benefits early and often.

Project Recovery Case Studies

 

We have worked extensively in this area - we have experience of setting up PMO functions, rolling out project standards and implementing enterprise-wide portfolio management solutions. We have developed best practice covering the portfolio and project lifecycles, drawing on industry standards such as PRINCE2 and PMBOK. We know what works to ensure you move ahead quickly without over-engineering the process or the technology.

 

"My yearly delivery plan is at odds with what I end up delivering, I can't easily explain why, and the figures from Finance cause even more confusion." — CIO, Global Hedge Fund

The IT function of this global hedge fund was running multiple complex projects. Individual projects could not be tracked effectively and there was no overall resourcing plan. Reporting internal to IT could not be reconciled with the Finance budgeting and forecasting without significant ongoing effort. Any change to priorities created huge headaches for all those involved. Our role was to recommend a course of action so that the portfolio could be managed more transparently with a reduced administrative involvement from both IT and Finance staff. More Link to full case study

 

"Project delivery is very inefficient compared with our peers, we'd like a standardized approach to help improve efficiency." — CIO, Global Energy Trader

An external benchmarking exercise had revealed that our client's project delivery was inefficient and more costly when ranked against its peers. We were asked to review and then manage the roll out of a new set of project management processes to help improve efficiency. More Link to full case study

 

"Our annual budgeting process is too complicated and time-consuming. Help us fix it" — CIO, Global Hedge Fund

We joined the IT management team for the duration of the budgeting process. We created, agreed and then implemented a new, integrated, time-based process to manage the budgeting cycle across IT, Finance and the business. We created automated reporting packs to aid decision making across each budget iteration. At the end of the assignment, we reviewed and amended the processes based on feedback and implemented appropriate changes. More Link to full case study

 

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