Great benefit analysts – Finding the unicorn!
Great benefit analysts - Finding the unicorn! Some years ago we published the results of a survey on what were the key skills and competencies of a portfolio business analyst....
26 October, 2018
Benefits
Project benefits – who needs them?
For how long have project pundits been exhorting companies to write better business cases or even any business cases? People have anguished over the lack of rigor in the setting out of benefits from projects: deplored the lack of benefits management, and doubted the veracity...
14 September, 2018
Developing a better understanding of Project Benefits
Are you and your organisation realising and understanding project benefits as a matter of course? I suspect that one of the reasons that project benefits are sometimes hard to come by may be that we’re not really clear about what they are....
31 August, 2018
Taxonomy for project benefits part one – financial benefits
This blog looks at financial benefits - after my previous blog discussed the potential issue with conflating the (rather weak, in my view) definition of a benefit with its level of attraction for stakeholders, to be found in the various definitions of benefits published by...
01 January, 2015
Taxonomy for Project Benefits part two – strategic benefits
We have looked at the specific options for financial benefits - cost reduction, increased revenue and asset enhancement - which are reasonably straightforward; we can always compare a £number with a previous value. Strategic benefits are more difficult - what do we compare?...
01 January, 2015
