Driving the strategic change agenda
Today’s fast-changing economic climate pressures financial institutions to continuously alter their strategic planning processes. To sustain and continuously grow current business performance is top of mind.
It is challenging to set up for short-term returns while keeping long-term strategic goals stable. At the same time, it can be difficult to build the capabilities needed to deliver strategic changes in-house. As a consequence, financial institutions critically depend on balanced portfolio management and delivery excellence. They must carefully assess their mix of assets, capabilities, and processes.
::projective provides recommendations and delivery based on deep industry expertise. Our team understands client-specific issues that affect successful project delivery. Our independent and objective view of strategy-development processes helps organizations to deliver more change faster and consistently. Our extensive and tested library of methodologies, tools, and solutions help our clients plan and execute quick, bold and decisive.
::projective’s Delivery Excellence practice covers a wide range of industry specific issues, including:
Ensuring that delivery success meets set business expectations
Review & Rescue: Delivery review or rescue with documentation analysis, interviews, observations and assessment of issues and risks. Overview of status and delivery probability of success. Key deliverable is the recommendations for improvement.
Run: Set the delivery up for success, (if necessary) by taking full ownership. Setup the basic hygiene factors for the delivery and implement necessary improvements on governance, execution, resourcing, etc.
Growing your delivery managers to be delivery champions
Delivery training: Analysis of individual and group needs, resulting in a training & coaching curriculum. Delivery of the relevant training modules, with delivery trainers that provide context and experience in terms of war-stories and good-practices from real-life situations.
Individual Coaching: Coaching of delivery managers as part of their daily responsibilities by an experienced Projective Senior Manager. Initial workshop, followed by intensive 8-day mentoring & coaching in the first month with continued 2-days per months follow-up suggested for 6-months.
Achieving alignment between business strategy and delivery execution
Portfolio Management: Aligning strategic objectives with the business change portfolio into a feasible roadmap with clear and tangible benefits. Adapting when necessary, managing the dependencies between initiatives in the portfolio.
PMO: Assessing the maturity of the PMO and strengthening the role of PMO in the execution of the portfolio. Establish and execute relevant PMO processes, governance and tooling.
Our Delivery Excellence offerings are targeted to deliver sustainable change in situations of uncertainty where expertise, experience and culture matter to make the difference to be successful.
Some of these offerings comprise of the following:
2-Speed IT Operating Model
Build out new organization and governance model with high-speed IT with an highly agile approach with test-and-learn strategies to enable short-term oriented software-release cycles and deployment mechanisms to enable build up of a new digital architecture and products/services whilst maintaining low-speed architecture ringfencing legacy back-end architecture managed for resilience and scalability
Technology complexity reduction
Rationalizing existing technology stacks and supporting operations towards a simpler, more integrated business and technology delivery platform through functional and technical consolidation / decomplexation to sustainably reduce overall cost base of underlying technology for the existing business
Post-merger integration & divestment
Assisting our clients with experienced transformation and integration of organization, culture, technology stacks, and processes in complex post-merging environments to realize envisaged synergies and required change, establish and run PMO, execute selected divestments, build and execute post-integration optimization roadmap
Programme rescue
Driving fast and effective recovery of complex change by identifying issues affecting performance, reviews available options, and plan and execute recovery – in a matter of weeks – working closely with management to bring clarity, confidence, and speed to results in a variety of situations
Utilities and outsourcing
Developing design, governance and execution of an outsourcing/ utilities strategy to drive an operating model renewal to meet competing needs of achieving higher efficiencies, cutting costs, meeting regulatory obligations while reducing risk
Pre-merger Management
Assisting our clients to navigate during deal / pre-merger phase to validate and design synergy case, target business and operating model, merger roadmap, to ensure speedy and effective integration, building of synergetic capabilities leveraging our deep domain expertise, merger experience and proven tools from past mergers
Complex Technology Transformation
Drive complex technology transformation with associated systems implementation, technical infrastructure and architecture changes in alignment with required governance, business benefits, people and process/operations areas by measuring business benefits, management of releases, maintaining senior stakeholder support and setting up an effective leadership teams to avoid pitfalls and reap real rewards.