Enterprise Programme Management

How will you get to where you want to be tomorrow?

The economic drivers pressing organisations into major change initiatives have never been greater. Fierce competition, changing business models, new technology, deregulation, cost pressures and globalisation are creating the need for organisations to undertake more and more initiatives of unprecedented complexity and with unprecedented speed. However, despite the increasing levels of investment being made by organisations in projects and programmes, a startling number of initiatives fail to deliver the expected value, never get implemented, or cost substantially more and take substantially longer than planned.

Managing in uncertain times

And does a global recession with reduced capital / credit availability and lower discretionary spend mean the end of programme and project management? To the contrary, it means change, which requires an agile organisation that drives change using the EPM framework to focus on assuring value delivery. The ability to implement change effectively and more quickly than others can create a competitive advantage.

Enterprise Programme Management

This programme describes an approach, called enterprise programme management (EPM), to managing continuous change in organisations that outlines the skills and capabilities organisations need to develop in order to deliver value successfully when faced with these challenges. Now more than ever, with pressure from shareholders and stakeholders on CxOs and public officials to deliver their strategies and policies, there is a need to focus investment on strategic objectives. This demands a much closer link between the strategy and policy development processes and the delivery mechanisms in organisations.

Topics covered in this programme include: Enterprise Programme Management, Strategic Portfolio Management, Benefits Driven Change, Complex Programme Planning and Programme Assurance. This three-day programme elaborates on the concept and practice of EPM. The programme generalises from real-life, practical experiences to help participants establish or grow their EPM capabilities.

Target Group:

• Programme or project managers
• Portfolio managers
• Interim managers
• Business & IT/IS executives
• Business & IT/IS analysts
• Business & IT/IS architects
• Business & IT/IS consultants

Lecturer Tim Parr

Tim has over 12 years consulting experience and over 10 years experience working for leading 'blue chip' companies in various operational and project change management roles. He has led, as programme director many large scale transformation programmes and has contributed to the success of programmes at several clients in the UK and abroad.

He has extensive experience in designing, initiating and leading delivery of large scale organisational change initiatives; capital projects, e-business transformations and business re-engineering and cost reduction in the travel industry, distribution, food manufacturing and financial industries; governance structures and implementing government policy in the public sector; and strategy development in publicly owned and privatised utilities.

Tim is recognised as a thought leader in the field of Programme Leadership and is the co-author of a book, Enterprise Programme Management, recently published by Palgrave Macmillan. The book is one of the first to tackle the subject of delivering multiple programmes and projects in complex organisational environments, and he is regularly invited to speak at conferences on these subjects.

Tim holds an MBA from Warwick Business School, and Post Graduate Diplomas in Management from Oxford Brookes University and Abingdon College. Tim currently leads the Deloitte UK Programme Leadership Consulting group, a team of around 100 consultants specialising in helping organisations deliver large complex programmes and developing their programme management capabilities. Tim is a member of the Programme Management Institute and the Global Corporate Council.