Spotlight on delivery in defence: Enterprise Portfolio Management - Prioritising investment at a time of crisis
The Challenge After several re-organisations, aimed at reducing IT costs, the organisation had lost experience and capability. Faced with an impending restart to the financial year, they looked to external organisations to help and asked Project One to support in mobilising, operationalising and scaling an Enterprise Portfolio Office (EPO). Our Approach Within just 35 days, a joint team of staff and Project One consultants: Rapidly mobilised the team and launched the new set of EPO services, tailored to an improved governance model Migrated and cleansed data from existing systems Configured and implemented an enterprise wide tool and trained 100 staff globally for the start of the financial year. The Value Add and Outcomes Introduced Agile ways of working underpinned by best practice models A service built that matched the organisation’s needs, that could be operated by the internal team in the long-term. Investments are more focussed on future end-customer needs, staff have a much-improved experience in identifying, selecting, managing and delivering investments, and the operating businesses throughout the globe have a clearer, up to the minute picture on progress on their individual investments. “Project One has a team of absolute superstars and life savers. I can chuck stuff at them that just gets done, they are my sounding board on everything and the only people I feel really “get it” like I do. Feeling the pain, understanding the challenge and helping in more ways than could ever be expected.” Head of IT Portfolio World leading manufacturing organisation
Our customer is one of the world’s leading manufacturing organisations. Customer support, manufacturing and business support are distributed globally, and the company invests £100m’s annually in technology, delivering transformation and continuous improvement for customers, staff and suppliers. They were in the process of making a significant improvement to their IT Portfolio Management capability when demand dropped beyond any reasonable expectation and the strategic outlook turned from growth to protecting the business for the years ahead.
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