Programme Management

Companies have been initiating and running projects and programmes for many years. A few of these projects even manage to achieve their original objectives and deliver increased business benefit on completion. However, many never reach a successful completion, costing the company far more than the original budget and many never achieve a suitable return on investment.

The continual failure of such projects and business change programmes is well documented. Huge amounts of capital investment have been made and lost forever as many initiatives fail to bear fruit. Our information sources show that four out of five investment programmes fail to deliver fully the expected benefits. Clearly, the lessons have not been learned.

Lexington has developed a core set of service offerings that address these major blockers to success, backed by the experience of our senior practitioners. We can:

Set up projects, programmes and their office and support services
Prepare business cases, budget submissions and plans
Manage the projects/programmes through to a successful conclusion with effective control of issues, changes and risks
Ensure regular and effective management, stakeholder and financial reporting
Eliminate resource contention and ensure that there is no departmental overload
Coach key project/programme staff in current best practice
Define and ensure compliance with agreed quality standards
Independently audit the status of existing projects and programmes and recommend improvements.

Lexington is experienced in the management of projects with budgets ranging from £50k to major business programmes with budgets in excess of £250 million for clients in financial, manufacturing, retail and other marketplaces. Our own methods and tools ensure that all projects and programmes sit within the context of the rest of your company's change initiatives. Our managers also have considerable e-business experience dealing with both the business and the technology domains of change. Whatever your programme or project, Lexington can add value to your initiatives through provision of Programme or Project Managers, creation and/or staffing of a Programme or Project Office, facilitating workshops to accelerate progress, project "Health Checks", project Risk Reviews, post Project Reviews and Recovery programmes.