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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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