Why should You care?
Trends and changes in today’s world of transformational projects
- Modern technologies and methodologies promising faster deployments and unprecedented business opportunities
- Substantial increase in technological complexity requiring new and different skills
- Digitisation calling for reduction of organisational complexity
- Speed of change in markets, business models, and customer behaviour/expectations
- Regulatory and compliance requirements becoming increasingly complex
Why do projects fail
- The classic reasons: scope and business case insufficiently aligned, aggressive timeline, ambitions and capabilities unbalanced, selection of service providers
- The underlying truth: insufficient preparation and planning and an organisation that is not prepared to convert the business case into tangible outcomes
How to create success
- Align the project portfolio with the business strategy
- No project without business ownership and skin in the game
- Invest more time and effort into preparation and planning
- Replace Change Management (administration) with managing change (leadership)
- Start with making sure to understand the desired impact versus current readiness (ambition vs. capabilities)