Change Assurance
What I Do
'70% of companies report having at least one failed project in the past year’
(Hive)
I help you AVOID DELIVERY FAILURE by,
- Business Case assurance, is it complete, accurate and up to date?
- Board Advisory, succinct recommendations to advise your Board, partners or investors.
- Assessment of your change portfolio delivery and execution risks, capability, capacity, operational resilience and 3rd party risks and impacts.
- Independent gateway / peer reviews, a fresh pair of eyes and a 'critical friend'
- Embedded assurance, 'on the ground' assessment, helping teams deliver.
Business Case Assurance
Are you confident that you have an accurate and compelling case for investing money, time and people?
- Have all the right stakeholders been involved?
- Does it make the strategic case for change?
- Has critical thinking been applied, options considered, benefits described and, are they quantifiable and measurable?
- Do you have a management framework supporting delivery?
- Has the financial investment case been tested?
- costs identified
- estimates validated
- funding impacts assessed
- planning bias risks accurately and fairly recognised and budget uplift applied?
- has any Gainshare / Painshare arrangements been included?
- affordability confirmed?
- Are the risks identified, accurately assessed, within your risk appetite?
Contact me
to learn more about how early assurance increases
acceptance.
Board Advisory
Do you
really
know what you know?
- Assessment of the people, business, change and execution risks
- Targeted assurance of areas of concern
- Holistic assurance of your change portfolio, its form, governance and effectiveness
- An evaluation of delivery confidence for a project, programme or portfolio
Contact me to discuss how independent assurance can help your teams, Board, partners or investors by informing decisions.
Portfolio Assessment
Are you confident that your change portfolio will deliver your business strategy?
- Does your roadmap align to your business strategy?
- Does the portfolio support the roadmap?
- Is there effective governance across the portfolio?
- Do you have sufficient capacity to do all your planned projects?
- Does your team have the right capabilities to deliver what you're asking of them?
- Are you delivering projects that provide operational resilience?
- Is there an effective risk management framework and processes?
Contact me
to explore how assurance can give you confidence.
Gateway and Peer Reviews
Are your Gateway and Peer Reviews adding value to your outcome delivery?
- Independent review of projects/programmes, a fresh pair of eyes
- Review of the effectiveness of your change delivery governance framework
- Are projects effectively managed within your governance framework?
- Recommendations for improvements, highlight good practice
Contact me to discover how insights from Gateway / Peer reviews will improve your governance and delivery.
Embedded Assurance
Working closely with Programme Teams to assist complex delivery.
- An alternative assurance approach is to embed assurance in the change teams, this enables,
- understanding of delivery in detail,
- the apportunity to surface the unsaid, unreported problems and mitigate them
- support of your internal assurance and PMO
- ongoing assessment, coaching of resources and validation of delivery.
- to be a 'critical friend' for the team, a confidential sounding board
- provision of detailed advice to sponsors, steering groups, stakeholder forums and delivery teams
Contact me to explore how working alongside delivery teams will reduce your delivery risk.