March 2024 – Strategy deployment aids organisations in articulating strategic objectives and desired outcomes, then mobilises resources to achieve them through a cohesive suite of programmes and projects seamlessly integrated and aligned throughout the entire business.
Strategy deployment is understanding the critical breakthrough programme of projects to deliver the strategy. Once that programme of projects is designed, we can help the organisation deliver the strategy through programme and project management best practices. This offers a systematic approach to overseeing these components and ensuring alignment with an organisation’s strategic objectives while optimising value delivery.
Hoshin Kanri methodology
The Hoshin Kanri methodology is a powerful compass, enabling organisations to create and confirm long-term objectives aligned with their mission. This methodology facilitates the agreement on priority breakthrough programmes and projects, with clear ownership and accountability for results. Hoshin Kanri also provides a robust decision-making framework, like the Policy Deployment Matrix (PDM) or X-Matrix, which is essential for deciding which projects to initiate, continue, or terminate. Factors such as strategic alignment, risk assessment, and return on investment guide this process.
The framework goes beyond decision-making, allowing for cascading, refining, and effective communication throughout the organisation, reaching the team and individual levels. This clarity motivates employees and provides a transparent line of sight into how their activities contribute to overall strategy delivery.
The synergy between portfolio management and the Hoshin Kanri methodology establishes a dynamic foundation for organisations, empowering them to make informed decisions and foster motivation at every level. Organisations chart a course towards enduring success by aligning activities with strategic objectives.
Programme Management
Effective achievement of overarching strategic objectives also involves the incorporation of programme management, which consists of orchestrating and overseeing multiple interconnected projects. At the core, programme managers are entrusted with the responsibility of ensuring the effective execution of individual projects within the programme, collectively delivering the intended benefits.
Their focus extends to managing interdependencies between projects, allocating resources strategically, mitigating risks, and fostering seamless communication among stakeholders. This strategic role is critical in driving successful programme outcomes.
C-level and functional leadership workshops play a pivotal role in this process, coupled with critical analysis and ongoing coaching interventions. These activities assess strategy definition and deployment, stress test future evolution, and ensure continuous governance.
In our approach, we don’t just stop at theory – we apply robust programme management structures to encourage a secure setup, smooth mobilisation, and the realisation of benefits. Our programme consultancy practice encompasses a range of essential components:
1. Cost Engineering, Estimation and Whole Life Analysis:
Ensuring that financial considerations are thoroughly analysed, estimated, and integrated into the entire lifespan of the programme.
2. Risk Management:
Identifying potential risks and implementing strategies to mitigate and manage them effectively.
3. Quality Management:
Focusing on maintaining and enhancing the quality of deliverables throughout the programme lifecycle.
4. Scheduling and Assurance:
Implementing robust scheduling strategies and providing assurance that the programme is on track.
5. Change Management and Control:
Managing and controlling changes effectively ensures the programme’s adaptability to evolving circumstances.
Through comprehensive programme management, we empower organisations to meet their strategic goals and exceed them, ensuring a lasting impact on their overall performance and success.
Project Management
Project management is the cornerstone discipline for planning, executing, monitoring, and controlling individual projects to achieve specific objectives within defined constraints such as scope, time, cost, and quality. Project managers play a pivotal role, overseeing day-to-day project activities, managing project teams, and ensuring the delivery of project outputs or deliverables. A 2020 survey found that organisations with robust project management practices demonstrate a 77% higher likelihood of achieving their project goals compared to those lacking mature value-delivery processes, where the possibility stands at 56%. Additionally, companies with established project management practices exhibit a 67% higher probability of staying within budget, in contrast to their counterparts without mature value-delivery processes, who only have a 46% likelihood of budget adherence1.
The effectiveness of project management is paramount in ensuring that projects are completed on time, within budget, and meet the required quality standards. In our commitment to excellence, Unipart Consultancy provides project management resources and advisory services to support the safe, benefits-led delivery of individual projects within a broader programme.
Our project management services comprise the following:
1. Management of Projects on Behalf of the Customer:
We take the lead in managing projects on behalf of our customers, ensuring a seamless and successful delivery that aligns with their strategic goals.
2. Advisory on Effective Project Management:
Offering expert advisory services to guide organisations in managing projects more effectively, improving overall project outcomes.
We adhere to the proven Unipart Project Delivery System (PDS) approach, a globally applied methodology across various blue-chip organisations. PDS incorporates a gateway approach to delivering projects – an integrated method that ensures projects are completed on time, within budget, and with minimised process and operational complexity.
In conclusion
In the intricate landscape of strategic planning, effective strategy deployment emerges as a formidable force, offering the conceptualisation and communication of ambitious strategies and their successful realisation. As organisations grapple with the challenges of aligning project and programme efforts with strategic goals, strategy deployment techniques prove instrumental in ensuring that resources are judiciously allocated to activities that significantly contribute to organisational success.
Our track record includes a number of blue-chip clients, attesting to the effectiveness of our business transformation approach. Unipart Consultancy stands ready to guide organisations through the process of defining strategic aims and desired results, deploying resources strategically through a suite of aligned programmes and projects that seamlessly cascade throughout the business.
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Reach out to Chris Dixon, Unipart Consultancy Director, or James Stanley, Head of Strategy at Unipart Consultancy, to collaborate towards operational excellence, supply chain optimisation, or transformative strategies.
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