Benefit Realisation Management: A Practical Guide to Achieving Benefits Through ChangeGower Publishing, Ltd., 2012 M09 28 - 394 pages The first edition of Gerald Bradley's Benefit Realisation Management quickly established itself as the definitive, practical guide to using measures to track performance throughout the life of a project or programme; enabling organisations to eliminate wasted investment, realise more benefits and realise them earlier. The second edition takes you step-by-step through the benefits realisation process, explaining along the way, how to: ∗ define your projects and programmes by mapping the benefits The second edition includes expanded guidance on benefits realisation for portfolio management and includes revisions to the original text along with additional case study examples. The text of the latest edition is now printed in four-colour which make the detailed and varied benefit maps throughout the text immediately more striking and comprehensible. The benefits realisation management methodology fits closely with existing programme and project management approaches such as MSP and Prince 2, making it appropriate for both public and private sector environments. If you are investing heavily in change management, IT infrastructure or project working, then this book is a must-read that will justify its price many times over. |
Contents
FUNDAMENTALS AND FOUNDATIONS OF BENEFIT REALISATION | 1 |
Todays Biggest Challenge | 3 |
Stakeholders | 9 |
Benefit Realisation | 21 |
Overview of Benefit Realisation Management BRM | 29 |
Project and Programme Fundamentals | 49 |
Some Key Benefit Realisation Management BRM Roles and Responsibilities | 59 |
Planning and Preparing for Success | 75 |
Governance Programme Assurance and Gateways | 205 |
Benefit Realisation Management BRMrelated Documents | 211 |
The Benefits Realisation Plan BRP | 233 |
The Stakeholder Management Strategy and Plan | 239 |
The Blueprint | 245 |
The Business Case | 249 |
The ChangeBenefit Realisation Management BRM Process | 263 |
THE APPLICATION OF BENEFIT REALISATION MANAGEMENT BRM TO PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT | 279 |
THE APPLICATION OF BRM TO PROGRAMMES AND PROJECTS | 87 |
Vision and Objectives | 89 |
Benefits | 101 |
Measures | 131 |
Identifying and Assessing Benefit Dependencies Changes | 149 |
Structuring Change Delivery | 165 |
Valuing Assessing and Optimising the Whole Investment | 177 |
The Time for Action Change Management | 183 |
Benefit Tracking and Reporting | 189 |
Risks and Issues | 201 |
Maintaining an Optimum Change Portfolio | 281 |
EMBEDDING BENEFIT REALISATION MANAGEMENT BRM WITHIN AN ORGANISATION | 299 |
Embedding Benefit Realisation Management BRM Within an Organisation | 301 |
Prerequisites Culture and Leadership | 307 |
Dangers of Giving Financial Values to NonCashable Benefits | 313 |
How Benefit Realisation Management BRM Fits with Other Approaches | 323 |
Requirements for Software to Support the Process | 327 |
Case Examples | 333 |
In a Nutshell | 347 |