Andrew Brown, Acuity Business Solutions

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Managing Complex Programmes within the Public Sector

Andrew BrownManaging Director of Acuity Business Solutions


Introduction

• The challenges of major modernisation initiatives

• Streamlining without compromising quality of results

• Three areas to explore:• Stakeholder Management• Managing Change• Planning with Resource Constraints


Managing Stakeholders


Stakeholder Challenges

Lack of time

Not PPM orientated

Who?

Personal agenda

Not empowered

Won’t be told

Can’t prioritise

Lack of belief in planning

Sector complexities

Ian Jones


Managing Change


The Challenges of Change

• Organisational priorities• Legislative compliance• Better understanding of customer experience• Political change • political change• Resource availability (staff and funding)

The answer…


The Programme Manager


Planning within Resource Constraints


What they said about planning

“A goal without a plan is just a wish”Antoine de Saint-Exupéry1900 –1944, French aristocrat, writer, poet, and pioneering aviator

“In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable”

Dwight D Eisenhower, Allied commander for the invasion of Europe 1944

“Unless Commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plan”

Peter Druker, Business Guru

Less is More



Summary

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Andrew Brown, Acuity Business Solutions