Real Business Change Needs to Planned & Project Managed

In recent years, businesses and organisations of all sizes have turned to and embraced project management as a mechanism for adapting to and managing of all forms of change.

Despite a growing range of Project Management methodologies, software, tools, training and standards – businesses continue to struggle with low success rates for change and project management.

Project management is about managing change to achieve a specific set of objective, deliverables within a finite timescale and budget. Irrespective of industry or specialism, it is about the application of processes, methods, skills, knowledge and experience to achieve the project objectives.

An astonishing 70% of Business transformation projects fail.

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17% of IT projects can go so bad that they can threaten the very existence of the company.

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only 2.5%

A study of 10,640 projects found only 2.5% completed 100% successfully. – PWC

23%...

Only 23% of organizations use standardized project management practices across the entire organization. – PMI

55%...

Overall IT/digital transformations and new product development projects tend to dominate project today with 55% and 46% of organisations respectively having undertaken these types of project in the past year. – PWC

2.13 million

An estimated 2.13 million full-time equivalent workers (FTEs) are employed in the UK project management profession. – PWC

Typical Project Management stages

The stages of a project are ultimately determined and will vary by the nature of the project and the methodology used. The Association of Project Management states that projects generally will involve 5 principal stages

Initiating

Project conception, Umbrella objective, business case and justification, Team lead

Planning

Detailed requirements & planning – ie Scope, budget, detailed schedules (ie Gantt), roles & responsibilities, Risk management, Monitoring & controls, constraints, methodology, communication plan

Launch & Executing

Prior to go live establish clear mechanism for status & tracking, KPIs, Quality measurement and forecasts. Each person or group involve is clear of tasks and criteria

Monitoring & Controlling

Active measuring of performance vs KPI, objectives, Quality assurance mechanisms and reporting. Milestone reporting

Closing

Approved end of project, transition or not to BAU, final review/ lesson learnt

When to use a Project Management Approach

Project Management is commonly used to effect some change with a clearly defined goal and end date.  Managed Projects are widely used in both the private and public sector across a wider range of circumstances including:

  • To produce something new (technology, product, service, approach etc) or altered (process, system , organisation, structure, system change request, etc)
  • To achieve a certain objective with a clear start and finish
  • Manage some form of change
  • Manage a specific risk
  • Manage complexity in people, process or systems
  • Manage complexity such as multi groups, departments, silos

If you have business or IT change that you need to affect – we can provide Project Management services to manage the project from start to BAU.

Click the following link to view 10 reasons why you should use a Project Manager.

How We Can Help

ProcessFlows provide a range of Project Management Services & Solutions to help you get your projects delivered on track and within budget.

Project Managers for any kind of Project

Managed IT Services

Process Automation & Digitisation Projects

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What are the different approaches and frameworks for Project Management

There’s quite a few frameworks and methodologies for project management. Some are used in certain industries or to manage certain projects or aspects of a project. Some are used alongside other PM approaches.

Explore the different Project Management Frameworks & Methods here.

Why ProcessFlows for Project Management?

We have a 35 year distinguished track record of delivering IT and business change projects on time, on budget and to exacting quality expectations – in businesses of all sizes

Accredited Project Managers and approach to project management combines the best aspects of PMI®, Agile® and PRINCE2® and is scalable and adaptable enough to meet the requirements of the most complex projects.

A robust approach to transformation based on partnership and supporting every step of the journey from creating a vision and plan through to project managed development, implementation, transition as well as continuous improvement and support

We are independent and partner industry leading business process and IT technology providers. We also have our own accredited expertise from Business Process Analysts through to implementation engineers and Service Delivery Managers.

For these reasons and more, ProcessFlows should be your trusted partner to support your business transformation.
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Our Customers

From global enterprises and government departments, to local small businesses, here are some of our customers that have partnered with us, using Process Automation to transform their business with digital and automated operations. Click the logos to download the Case Studies.

To read all of our success stories, visit our Case Studies page.

Request a No Obligation Consultation

What’s your Project challenge? – we offer Free of Charge data and process consultations to help you optimise, digitise and automate your Purchase to Pay operations and build your case for change. To find out more or to book a consultation, please call +44 (0)1962 835053, email enquiries@processflows.co.uk, or fill in the form below.

Thank you for your interest, we look forward to working with you.

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