Strategic Programme Risk Management

A different perspective on risk management

Risk is inherent in every business venture; it’s how those risks are identified and managed that is important. Like experienced mountaineers who thrive on the thrill of the climb while taking the necessary safety measures and precautions, business leaders and strategists need to plan their new ventures to reap the rewards. Success comes through de-risking your plans in a pro-active, ongoing way, allowing you to climb higher without danger.

Many of today’s risk management approaches fail. De-RISK doesn’t

We work with strategic partners, programme/project managers and Chief Risk Officers (CROs) who are aware that many of the disasters associated with large scale programmes, such as over-runs, escalating costs, un-met objectives, are ultimately caused by unrecognised complexity and poor communications between stakeholders.

If you have clients with critical programmes; are responsible for delivering business critical projects; or are the custodians of risk in your organisation, De-RISK has a risk methodology and tools which bring rigour, speed and accuracy to ensure programme success.

De-RISK has:

Saved $4m of direct costs in one week for Hewlett Packard by following recommendations from the initial analysis, and delivered exceptional return on investment.
Ensured a major global bank merger hit its post-merger integration milestones and was deemed the “text book merger” by the Wall Street Journal – turning a $10k pilot into a $22m engagement
Saved a major rail infrastructure programme from committing to impossible targets and generated multiple additional engagements for the strategic partner to help put the programme “back on the rails”.

Strategic partners benefit from:

An injection of momentum to drive real results for them and their clients
Process rigour to identify the real risks and opportunities
A breath of new life into stalling projects where the client can’t yet see the true value of your interventions
New business opportunities as the risks and opportunities identified lead to new engagements

Strategic partners

Programme Managers benefit from:

Clear identification of significant risks not identified by traditional approaches
A clear, detailed and rigorous picture of the risks within your organisation, which can be efficiently communicated
Not being ‘sucked into the noise’ by maintaining a strategic view of the risks without unnecessary distractions
A “roadmap” to show how to go from where you are predicted to be to where you want to be

Programme Managers

CROs benefit from:

Confidently meeting all compliancy requirements
Ability to aggregate risk and prioritise different types of risk across the enterprise
Apply assumption-based techniques to different areas of the business to improve identification and management
One tool / source for all data to give you complete visibility and control

CROs

Strategic Delivery Assurance

Our more effective approach to risk management cuts through complexity and bring insight and predictability to programmes.

Strategic Delivery Assurance (SDA) is a rigorous, reinforcing methodology which uses both quantitative and qualitative techniques to identify and manage risky assumptions
Provides greater predictability of programme deliverables
Accurately predicts timescale / cost / benefit outcomes
Provides an associated roadmap of assumptions to get you from where you are predicated to be, to where you want to be
Simple governance processes which ensures actions are followed through and risks are pinpointed and resolved

To find out how SDA works and what it can do for your business success, click here.