This event will bridge the gap between the activity of planning and mapping benefits and the attainment of real value by the organisation.
Speaker
Nick Dobson
Agenda
6:30pm - Presentation
8:00pm - Networking and refreshments
9:00pm - Event ends
Synopsis
This participative presentation and discussion-based session will bridge the gap between the theoretical (and often fictional) activity of planning and mapping benefits and the actual attainment of real value by the organisation. Whilst the project and its manager cannot be held accountable for benefits focus will hinge on what their responsibilities, in this area, really need to be.
More importantly, perhaps, are the answers to the question of who else and what else needs to be brought into play, beyond the project team, in making benefits really happen? Much of the discussion is therefore likely to hinge on the roles of the sponsor, senior user, change agent, operational user and client.
What strategies (force majeure, marketing, engagement) prove more effective in which situations, to embed the changes will also, likely, be a rich vein of discussion.
Learning objectives:
- Be familiar with … the necessity for projects to engage the user/customer community if benefits are to be achieved.
- Understand … that meaningful action by the user/customer community is the missing imperative if benefits are to be achieved.
- Develop … approaches and techniques to engage the benefits delivery community.
- Know … How to translate a benefits plan into reality.
- Improve … Your day to day working outcomes.
About the speaker
Nick Dobson has been a practitioner, consultant, and educator in project and programme management for forty years. His experience ranges from large built-environment programmes to modest business change initiatives – and everything in between.
Early in his career, Nick was steeped in a culture and processes that demanded outcome orientation from the word go.
This prompted an early recognition that the only impetus for change is to improve on the current position, this resulted in impacts and, particularly, benefits, becoming a career-long area of interest and focus.
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