Benefits Management -Making it Work
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Detail Books, Help and Tools
Share what matters most + Takeaways
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Benefit expected Quality standards to meet Scope of what they needed to do Budget available Time available
Process
Organisation
Systems & Tools
People
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on what benefit you want – what you value
plans and resources will be enough to get them
to remain on course
• Be clear • Be certain• Be in control
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Process
Organisation
Systems & Tools
People
Benefit expected Quality standards to meet Scope of what they needed to do Budget available Time available
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on what benefit you want – what you value
plans and resources will be enough to get them
to remain on course
• Be clear • Be certain• Be in control
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Moorhouse Consulting
Daniel Kahneman
John Kotter
Cranfield University
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1. Reassure quality of proposal recommendations – a visual model showing cause-and-effect assumptions and logic
2. Manage the realisation of business benefits over time – a model that supports delivering required level of benefit to timings needed
3. Decrease risk to delivery deadlines – understand dependencies, risks and assumptions etc.
4. Manage scope and save budget – represent the scope of the programme to enable informed change decisions
to be made and stay aligned to strategic objectives
5. Increase the quality of solutions and activities– see what capability, change and investment is needed to realise benefit with
minimum waste
Justifying Benefits Realisation
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1. Reassure quality of proposal recommendations – a visual model showing cause-and-effect assumptions and logic
2. Manage the realisation of business benefits over time – a model that supports delivering required level of benefit to timings needed
3. Decrease risk to delivery deadlines – understand dependencies, risks and assumptions etc.
4. Manage scope and save budget – represent the scope of the programme to enable informed change decisions
to be made and stay aligned to strategic objectives
• Increase the quality of solutions and activities1. see what capability, change and investment is needed to realise benefit with
minimum waste
Justifying Benefits Realisation
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Plan
Review
Realise
Value & Appraise
Identify & Quantify
Use a standard cycle
With reference to:the Managing Benefits guide from APMG-International™ by Steve Jenner Page 12
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Identify & Quantify
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Identify & Quantify
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10,000 hours Expert Wonderful things
Cause Effect
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Create a Map
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Wording Outcomes/ Benefits
Maintained CreatedEliminated ReducedDecreased IncreasedIncreased MaintainedCreated Eliminated
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Focus on things important and knowable
Think likeWarren Buffett
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Create a Map
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Using general information from a PwC report: Insights and Trends: Current Portfolio, Programme, and Project Management PracticesThe third global survey on the current state of project management 2012
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Plan
Review
Realise
Identify & Quantify
Value & Appraise
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Value & Appraise
Value & Appraise
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BenefitsCost & Resources
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Use contribution line weightings
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Calculate contribution scores
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Review
Realise
Identify & Quantify
Value & Appraise
Plan
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Plan
Validate Forecast
Prioritize Benefits
Select Measures
Risk/ Opportunities
Plan to Engage
Documentation
Pre-Transition
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Plan
Validate Forecast
Prioritize Benefits
Select Measures
Risk/ Opportunities
Plan to Engage
Documentation
Pre-Transition
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Plan
Review
Realise
Identify & Quantify
Value & Appraise
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Plan
Review
Realise
Identify & Quantify
Value & Appraise
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Tools
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You don’t need a car to survive…but it does make a difference to: Scope of what you can do and handle Quality of results and experience Time taken Benefits delivered Risk of failure
Benefits Realisation software can also help with Cost savings and Cost management
Tools
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Process
Organisation
Systems & Tools
People
Benefit expected? Quality standards to meet? Scope of what they needed to do? Budget available? Time available?
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1. Reassure quality of proposal recommendations
2. Manage the realisation of business benefits over time
3. Decrease risk to delivery deadlines
4. Manage scope and save budget
5. Increase the quality of solutions and activities
Use for more than Portfolio, Programme, Projects, PMO, including:
Sales, Bids, Strategy, IT and Change Roadmaps, Requirements analysis, Stakeholder management, Delivery Assurance, Business change, Commercial and Procurement, Product and Service Design
Justifying Benefits Realisation
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Additional takeaways
1. OutcomeJogger™ Identify wonderful things2. Map on Stand PwC Survey 20123. Slides Register on stand4. Software Realisor.com
Start down your own path – 10,000 hour people to help you
Good luck on your journey to wonderful things
Benefits Management -Making it Work®
TREVOR HOWES