Programme Management...

Turning your vision into reality

Blue Alumni defines Programme Management as the coordination of strategic change and the realisation of benefits across the full eight components of the business enterprise:

  • Customers - focusing on what your customers needs are and exceeding expectation
  • Technology - its development and use in meeting the organisation's mission
  • Organisation - developing structures for optimal efficiency, flexibility and control
  • Processes - how products and services are produced and measured, how decisions are made and how results are communicated through the organisation
  • People - their recruitment, training, empowerment and leadership
  • Products & Services - what and when you will be selling to your Customers
  • Facilities - what supporting infrastructure will be required to support the business.
  • Measures - key indicators of business performance to ensure continuous improvement.

It is our experience that the majority of projects fail to deliver, or deliver late and over budget, simply because they focus on a few of these components, usually technology centric, with little or no regard to the impact on the other areas of the business.

Blue Alumni has been at the forefront of the development of Programme Management tools and techniques and in particular their application to a wide range of business projects and initiatives.  Our specific approach sits above project management and helps senior managers by providing a clear structured framework within which we can define organisational change requirements, articulate a benefits model, prioritise resulting projects and conduct change impact analysis. 

Programmes are influenced and constrained by a vast array of eternal factors, and, by their nature, carry far higher strategic and financial risk.  Communication and interfacing needs as a result will be substantial and complex requiring detailed management.

Our technique involves working with clients through a structured set of processes that deliver proven results. 

 

The benefits of our approach

  • Holistic approach to the implementation of strategy and management of change
  • Timescale, resources and cost requirement clearly visible
  • Project management skills transfer to your staff
  • Consistent approach to planning and progress monitoring supports decision making