Enterprise IT budgets can run into £millions across hundreds of projects. The bigger they are, the harder it is to remain in control and ensure delivery of value.

As CIO, how can you ensure that you can judge all investments (projects) equally? How do you ensure you remain strategically aligned to key business goals as conditions change? How easy is it to react quickly to changing priorities? What are your current and projected resource needs?

Taking a consistent approach across to managing the portfolio can help you answer these questions. You are able to show clearly "what is going on" at all times. Business confidence in your ability to manage and control the IT investment increases.

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.

We can help you set up a pragmatic PMO function covering PM processes, standards, resourcing & reporting, optimize your governance processes to ensure clear and objective decision making and implement an appropriate portfolio planning solution to streamline management and reporting. We do this in an iterative manner, ensuring the necessary organisational changes bed in before moving to the next stage.

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.