Benefits Realisation: The Change-Driven Approach to Project Success - Hardcover

by Rasmus Rytter (Author)

Realise the full benefits potential from your change projects

For most managers in steering committees of PMOs (Project Management Office) most projects are costly in both time and money, and they often only reach a fraction of the expected benefits.

In Benefits Realisation: The Change-Driven Approach to Project Success, renowned benefits realisation expert, speaker, and consultant Rasmus Rytter introduces a new approach to change projects where benefits realisation defines the design of the project and how it's led. Once the project's benefits have been defined, the key question for the project to answer is: 'How might we help our colleagues change their behaviour? Thus, identifying behavioural change as the key driver of benefit realisation.

Step by step, the book guides you on how to approach both benefit realisation and behavioural change, as well as explain how it builds on the project and portfolio practices (or SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework)) you are already using.

Benefits Realisation also offers:

• Elaborate real-life case studies and examples that show the application of the new approach to benefits realisation and change on different projects
• Easy to use posters, playbooks, and facilitation guides for the most important activities and workshops
• Effective strategies for using benefits realisation to minimise project cost
• Compelling possibilities for executives to make far better strategic prioritization decisions based on credible data for project benefits and the real cost of change

Perfect for project managers, change managers, PMO professionals, and managers using agile frameworks, Benefits Realisation will also earn a place in the libraries of executives and other business leaders at all levels of your organisation.

Front Jacket

In Benefits Realisation: The Change-Driven Approach to Project Success, benefits realisation expert Rasmus Rytter delivers an incisive and eye-opening new approach to organisational change and value creation.

Projects involving significant change often result in the company realising only a fraction of the total benefit potential, despite incurring 100% of the cost. Thus, many organisations are rightfully concerned or even reluctant to initiate necessary transformation efforts for fear of expending large amounts of money only to experience a small portion of the achievable benefits. This book presents a new way of looking at change projects by taking a benefits-first approach and designing projects based on the desired result. It puts behaviour change at the forefront of project design, redefining IT systems, products and processes as change enablers.

In this book, you'll find ways to make change easier for your employees, executives, managers and other stake-holders. This ensures that business change projects achieve their impactful aims. It builds on existing project and portfolio practices and uses case studies, examples, playbooks and facilitation guides to make it easy for anyone to get started.

Benefits Realisation places people first, thus helping organisations focus on projects likely to create real and lasting benefits.

Perfect for project and change managers, executives, middle managers and other business leaders, Benefits Realisation is a must-read resource for anyone who wants to begin making strategic development decisions based on realistic benefit estimates and who seeks a practical guide on how to deliver those benefits.

Back Jacket

LEAD PROJECTS THAT DELIVER REAL, MEASURABLE BENEFITS TO YOUR ORGANISATION

Too often expensive business change and transformation projects only realise a fraction of the expected benefits. Companies might manage to build a new IT system or process, but that is not enough. To be successful employees also have to change their ways of working to avoid ending up with another benefit-free project. This book shows how to create lasting, real-world impact by helping you to succeed in changing behaviour and creating value.

Benefits Realisation: The Change-Driven Approach to Project Success offers readers a practical and hands-on guide to designing and leading projects that deliver actual benefits.

The book builds on existing project and portfolio practices to show readers how to work in a benefit-focused mindset with illuminating case studies, examples, playbooks and facilitation guides that make it easy to get started.

Benefits Realisation is an essential resource for executives, managers and other business leaders who want to improve their ability to deliver measurable results for their organisations.

Author Biography

Rasmus Rytter is an author, speaker and renowned expert within benefits realisation and organisational change. His expertise and three books on the subject have helped a wide variety of companies and public organisations realise their benefit potential. Since 2013, he has been part of Implement Consulting Group as a partner, consultant and advisor. Before joining Implement, Rasmus worked for 10 years as a project manager, program manager and people manager. Rasmus has a master's degree from Aarhus University.