Benefits Planning and Realisation Professional

• The context of benefits management
• The benefits management process
• Identifying drivers, benefits and establishing a benefits dependency network
• Building the business case
• Stakeholders and change management
• Implementing a benefits management approach
• The future of benefits management

This course is likely to add to the employment-related skills of the participants. The skills developed are likely to be used in the course of being an employee or working in a business.

• Professionals who want to learn about business benefit procedures
• Business Analysts
• Business Managers
• Business Architects
• Project Managers
• Programme Managers

• Issues with the relationship of IS/IT delivery to benefits
• Dissatisfaction with current approaches to benefits delivery
• The characteristics of a benefits management approach
• Focusing on value and value networks
• Value chains and value networks
• The rationale for benefits management
• The origins of the benefits management approach and process
• An overview of the benefits management process
• Why: identifying business and organisational drivers
• Establishing investments objectives
• Linking business benefits to drivers
• What: the business benefits
• How: the benefits dependency network
• Measurements and ownership
• Benefits and change template
• The rationale of the business case
• A structure for analysing and describing benefits
• Quantifying the benefits
• Financial benefits
• Investment appraisal
• Risk Assessment
• Completing the business case
• Assessing the feasibility of achieving the benefit
• Stakeholder analysis and management techniques
• From stakeholder analysis to stakeholder management action
• Completing the benefits plan
• Approaches to managing change
• Matching management approach with stakeholder behaviours
• Change management strategies
• Rationales for introducing benefits management
• Initiating and managing a benefit driven project
• Roles within benefits management
• Benefits management workshops
• The benefits plan and the project plan
• Reviewing and evaluating results
• Establishing potential for further benefits
• Monitoring benefits after implementation
• A maturity model for organisational benefits
• Characteristics of the benefits management approach
• Using benefits management to formulate and implement strategy
• Incorporating benefits management into strategic thinking
• Future trends in IS/IT and their implications for benefits management