Written by an executive, for all executives who want to be on top of their project investments.
Is strategy execution, project and value delivery inherently complex or have we just made it so?
Only the top 5% of firms are capable of effectively delivering their strategies, projects and business value in full. The other 95% waste expenditure, lose value and miss opportunities on a massive scale.
What if there was one simple thing that everyone could do to dramatically improve the business results from projects? What is the magical 'holy grail' for projects?
Most projects fail to deliver all of their available business value. This is not incompetence or each individual project’s failing - it is a systemic problem.
The TOP IT Value Pyramid™ explains which IT roles and services are valued and why, and which are not valued and why.
Successful project, program and portfolio delivery is undermined by a set of commonly held myths, erroneous beliefs, and false solutions.
Your organization’s Value Delivery Capability determines the results you generate from your strategy and project investments, and over time, your long-term competitive advantage.
Successful strategy execution and value delivery requires four perspectives or ‘lenses’
With the potential to easily execute your strategy and double your returns, at no extra cost you can adopt a value delivery approach to eliminate the current levels of waste on your projects, while dramatically increasing the business outcomes, benefits and value - and future profits - delivered from your project investments. This is the last profit frontier.
Worldwide unknowingly organizations have made a choice - a choice that is costing them millions each year. This book spells out the nature of this choice and the need to consciously choose 'value delivery'.
Generating the value from projects is a challenge - not least because 'value' is not well understood.
“Solving the benefits puzzle” spells out the problems in measuring benefits in a story format and presents the solution by outlining a scientific approach to benefits management.