Benefits Realisation: Making Change Actually Pay
Projects end at go-live; benefits begin there — which is exactly when everyone accountable has moved to the next project.
Format
Classroom · Virtual
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Business cases promise benefits; organisations rarely check whether they arrived. This programme installs the missing discipline — benefits defined at approval with baselines, owners and dates, not aspirations; the benefit map that connects project outputs through behaviour change to financial and service outcomes; tracking that continues past go-live, when the project team is gone and the temptation to declare victory is strongest; harvesting: cashable benefits taken into budgets, capacity benefits redeployed deliberately; and the portfolio view — benefits double-counted across projects found and netted, and the business-case honesty loop that improves the next investment decision.
What you will do
Who attends
Programme and project managers; PMO and portfolio teams; finance business partners who sign business cases; executives who sponsor change and want the returns.
Programme agenda
Built for the decisions no textbook prepares you for
I.Defined to be delivered
- The benefit map: outputs → behaviour change → outcomes
- Baselines, owners and dates set at approval
- Cashable, capacity, quality: benefit types treated differently
II.Tracked past go-live
- The handover to the business: ownership that survives the project
- Measurement that resists gaming and premature victory
- The benefits review: honest, scheduled, consequential
III.Harvested and learned from
- Cashable benefits taken into budgets — the step that makes it real
- Double-counting across the portfolio found and netted
- The honesty loop: what realisation teaches the next business case
Frequently asked
What is benefits realisation management?
The discipline of making change actually pay: benefits defined at approval with baselines, owners and dates rather than aspirations, tracked past go-live when the project team has moved on, and harvested — cashable benefits taken into budgets, capacity benefits redeployed deliberately.
What is the benefit map the course builds?
The chain that connects project outputs through behaviour change to financial and service outcomes. It forces the honest question every business case avoids: which behaviours must change for the benefit to arrive, who owns them, and how the outcome will be measured without gaming or premature victory.
Who should attend the benefits realisation course?
Programme and project managers, PMO and portfolio teams, finance business partners who sign business cases, and executives who sponsor change and want the returns. The portfolio view — double-counted benefits found and netted across projects — makes it especially relevant to PMO and finance.
How is the course delivered?
In English and French, on a rolling calendar with dates confirmed on request. In-house editions can be tailored to your own portfolio and business-case standards, and fees and quotations are provided on enquiry.
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