Four pillars: Delivering intelligent change
Published on 14 November 2022
We’re often asked, what makes project delivery genuinely “intelligent”?
We have gained insight over the last 20 years, from working on multi million pound projects and transformation programmes for a wide range of household names.
Our practitioners have come to recognise 4 key areas where assurance embedded in your projects can actively support your teams and increase project intelligence.
So what are the 4 pillars of “project intelligence”?
1) Energising early delivery and creating the foundations for success
Just like building a house, a finished project will only ever be as sturdy as its foundations. The better the groundwork, the more ambitious the finished product can be and the more resilient, resolute and ultimately, successful, the end result. Yet ensuring your project gets off to the right start is not just a case of thorough planning. The foundations of a successful project combine effective planning and team formation with clever communication, skills analysis, an understanding of potential risks, as well as a view of the “bigger picture” business objectives and how your project fits within that.
Pelicam’s AssureStart service injects this holistic thinking right from the off and helps clients overcome challenges before they become problematic. Using our experience from hundreds of engagements we provide clear, actionable guidance to ensure your project has the foundations for success.
2) Building capability and maintaining perspective
Once a project is in progress, maintaining perspective is essential. To deliver an intelligent project it’s important that the team working on it are able to keep sight of both their own small section, as well as the overall bigger project picture, and then how that fits into the organisational goals. Keeping those three very different outlooks in alignment can be difficult. Doing so ensures you reach the goals you originally set out to achieve; failing to do so can result in project drift, missed deadlines and objectives.
Pelicam’s In-Flight Assurance provides a fresh perspective to teams in the midst of a change initiative. Like a fresh set of eyes on a jigsaw, Pelicam are able to see solutions which might have eluded those immersed in the project. Similarly, Pelicam’s experience of working from board level through to delivery means In-Flight Assurance directly benefits everyone involved in the project.
3) Responsiveness to ensure things are quickly spotted and stay on track
The third pillar of an intelligent project is responsiveness. The modern business landscape demands agility; things change quickly and it’s essential that you are able to flex accordingly. No project exists in a vacuum - all are impacted by changes inside and outside of the organisation and being able to recognise those changes ensures the end result matches the original objectives.
Pelicam’s Rapid Response is designed to do exactly that; quickly identify and then remedy the challenges to ongoing projects. Working directly with your team, Pelicam can very quickly expose the issues which pose a threat to your project’s success and help deliver succinct, actionable solutions. This is done in a unique collaborative way. No point scoring, no finger pointing, just engaging and working together to make things better.
4) Focus and creative problem solving
Ensuring everyone involved is focussed on the same goals, as well as being aware of the same risks, allows a team to deliver to their full potential. With ways of working more dispersed than ever, ensuring this collective understanding and focus is both vitally important and increasingly illusive. Whether its team-building, collective problem solving or group learning, the key to your team’s success is it’s ability to share a focus.
Pelicam’s Interactive Workshops are the quickest way to create that collective focus. Part team-building, part problem-solving, part coaching - our workshops are tailored to your team’s exact needs and work through the actual challenges they’re facing in a given project. As well as helping find actionable solutions, our workshops teach the methods to allow your team to find similar solutions in the future.
These pillars of project intelligence form the basis of every successful project. We’ve crafted our offering to help our clients at each crucial stage and deliver value where it really matters. If you have a project that could benefit from our unique, action focused project assurance get in touch and we’d love to have a chat.
