Tools : Solution Envisioning

You understand the business problem, and believe enterprise portfolio management could be the answer, but how do you deliver it?

Defining what you are trying to achieve, determining a detailed solution that will meet this vision, and building a plan to deliver the solution, is a major step towards implementation success.

Typically organizations have a good understanding of their business requirements for enterprise portfolio management, although differing stakeholders will often have a different emphasis. The solution in a generic sense is often also relatively clear. The missing piece is usually some tangibility around how your chosen EPM solution will support it, and how to approach the deployment to achieve successful implementation. Key to defining a roadmap is to look at your current project management capabilities and determining the shape of your future solution. It is also important that agreement from all interested parties as to what this vision is be attained before implementation of the solution starts. This will ensure that when the solution is rolled out to the wider community it visibly has the right level of backing and direction, with everyone working towards the same goal.

Pcubed offers a Solution Envisioning Service that will show you how to maximize value from the toolset and help kick start the implementation process. This service takes the form of a solution workshop where we will work with the key stakeholders and program managers to develop a proposed solution and begin to work out the details of the implementation. This will help shape your organizations thinking, and provide a pathway forward for the organization to develop and implement such a solution. This will be achieved in a quick, focused and inexpensive way, with our consultants providing best practice guidance and their extensive experience and knowledge. Pcubed's approach will allow you to:

• Assess your current environment and benchmark this against industry best practice - Measure your current project management capability and understand how to get the most value out of the latest toolsets available.
• Conceptualize a workable pragmatic solution, and validate it - Develop, agree, and validate a tailored solution to meet your specific business needs.
• Present the plan to go forward - Present a solution road map that will outline the level of resource effort and costs needed to implement the solution, allowing you to obtain stakeholder support to move forward with agreed next steps.

This Pcubed service provides the following benefits:

• Certainty that attention will be focused on solving your critical business problems with an independent expert allowing you to overcome any organizational inertia and / or politics.
• Assurance that you have a workable, pragmatic solution, with the knowledge of best practice tool and process input.
• Confidence that you are maximizing the value of your investment in the selected toolset.
• An ability to verbalize to all stakeholders what the vision is, what benefits it brings and how it will impact them personally.
• A well defined pathway to solution success.