Managing Benefits™ Foundation Courses

• Definitions, scope and objectives of benefits management, barriers to its effective practice, and the key success characteristics.
• Principles upon which successful approaches to benefits management are based.
• Five practices contained within the Benefits Management Cycle and relevant techniques applicable to each practice.
• Scope of key roles and responsibilities for benefits management and the typical contents of the main benefits management documentation.
• Approaches to implementation and the factors to consider in sustaining progress.

• Senior executives, including Change and Transformation Directors, responsible for delivering value for money from the organization's investments in change and achieving the organization's strategic objectives.
• Senior Responsible Owners (SRO's)/Sponsors/Project Board Executives and project and programme management (PPM) and change management professionals responsible for delivering the change initiatives from which benefits are realized.
• Portfolio managers and Portfolio Office staff responsible for managing the organization's portfolio of change initiatives - including optimizing the contribution to strategic objectives.
• Business Case writers responsible for delivering reliable cases on which to base investment decisions.
• Finance professionals and economists responsible for undertaking, or participating in, investment appraisal and portfolio prioritization reviews.
• Business managers responsible for managing the operational functions by which, or within which, change initiatives are delivered and benefits are realized.
• Change Managers and Benefits Managers responsible for managing business change and benefits realization.
• Others with an interest in the successful delivery of change, including strategic planners, operational performance managers, internal and external auditors, procurement and commercial professionals etc.

• Managing Benefits Overview - What is Managing Benefits?
• The Managing Benefits Principles
• The Managing Benefits Cycle
• Identifying and Quantifying Benefits
• Benefits Value and Appraisal
• Benefits Planning
• Benefits Realisation
• Portfolio-Based Benefits
• Implementing Managing Benefits
• Sustaining Benefits

No prerequisites.

• Online course duration: 1 year