Projects and programmes are established to deliver change and benefits to the organisation and their clients. At the start of the project or programme organisations often invest considerable effort in defining and gaining agreement to a business case to justify the investment. However, visibility of the “benefits” and how they are to be delivered is often restricted to a relatively small group. As the project challenges of delivery take centre stage the original objectives and defined benefits often take a back seat, or worse still, sink into oblivion. This training programme is aimed at improving a delegates understanding of benefits management and providing the key elements of a benefits management lifecycle. A short Benefits Management briefing document is also available from the downloads section.

Understand the key principles of Benefits Management

Be able to build a cause and effect map defining how the benefits will be delivered.

Be able to build a Benefits Scorecard based on the cause and effect model.

Understand the different stages and related activities of the Benefits Management lifecycle.

Four Perspectives to Benefits Management

Defining Benefits

Measuring Benefits and Setting Targets

Defining Initiatives to ensure Benefits realisation

Proposal Stage

Assessing and Planning Benefits

Managing Benefits Delivery