andrew brown, acuity business solutions

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Managing Complex Programmes within the Public Sector

Andrew BrownManaging Director of Acuity Business Solutions

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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

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Managing Stakeholders

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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

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Managing Change

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The Challenges of Change

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

The answer…

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The Programme Manager

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Planning within Resource Constraints

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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

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Summary

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