Translating business plans into achievable change
Business strategy is important but it is worthless without effective implementation. Our Firm Foundation service focuses on translating business plans into achievable change and setting you and your team up for success in delivery.
Failure to establish a firm foundation creates risks that will prove costly to rectify later on, so this stage is crucial to the overall success of implementing change.
We have in-depth experience of building firm foundations for a wide variety of programmes and projects, from business transformation to implementation of complex regulatory change. We’re also very experienced at recovering situations during delivery and we understand the foundations essential to success in different situations.
Typical outcomes
- Clarity on the end game, namely the vision
- Clear roadmap, with a realistic plan for delivery
- Outline business case with risks understood and managed
- Stakeholder understanding on the direction and what it means to them
- Executive, sponsor and steering group commitment to the journey
- Agreed forward plan for delivery, with clarity on responsibilities for management and control
Answering these questions requires engagement with senior managers and executives and involves subject matter experts, both in-house and third parties. Communication to the wider stakeholder group is also a key aspect of a Firm Foundation.
Our Firm Foundation service is customised to your needs, taking into account your situation and priorities as well as the capabilities of your own team, for example:
- Engaging with business leaders to clarify the vision and shape the supporting roadmap
- Leading the mobilisation of a programme before handing over to your own team
- Checking status and shaping action plans to keep things on track
- Getting a management team to an informed decision where it can move forward with confidence
“Project One provided real value in shaping our thinking at the concept stage and was a key player in helping us to mature from outline approach to robust programme of activities”
Cost Reduction Programme Sponsor, Leading Manufacturer