The telecoms company concerned was a large single country organisation that went via a huge investment programme through a multi year strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What the Group IT PMO Manager and the Group Strategy Manager did was define and implement the capability to enable the organisation to stay on top of its strategic change, and balance it with operational key performance indicators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Chris and Sherif reflect that the only way to deliver a complex, multi year, multi $billion, multi country investment process was to rapidly implement integrated governance<\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The following content is a summary of the conversation led by David with Sherif and Chris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On reflection ALL of the BIG Components were a part of the ecosystem the organisation had already, refined or built (in some shape or form).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n BIG was not available at the time<\/strong> – but we had no model framework for:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Chris and Sherif had to work this out for themselves. The guidance for any organisation that wishes to rapidly build a strategic governance framework is now available to be consulted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Key factors:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nOne result was stunning. Upon a later acquisition, the organisation was able to demonstrate evidence of value in the strategic pipeline<\/span> to substantially increase the purchase price<\/span>.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
All in all, through the investment process, the company saw a c. 3 fold return on investment in a very short space of time. The strategy and the related profit would not have been possible without integrated governance. <\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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In this situation – this capability had to fall into place within 12 months for the organisation to be able to cope with and deliver value from its strategic direction.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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