Make Sure Your Large, Strategic Investments Pay Off

When strategic investments are committed to advance market leadership or insure the organization's very survival - how do you organize the underlying project streams that will make it happen? Unfortunately, most organizations continue to experience significant challenges. Gartner Research shows:

• Sixty six percent of large program initiatives fail to achieve their stated business objectives. Further, they are delivered late or substantially over budget.
• Projects with a value of at least $200,000 are cancelled 10% of the time due to inadequate risk management. At least 20% of all projects lacking proven risk mitigation techniques are cancelled.
• Through 2008, three out of four successful $500,000 projects will be planned and tracked with project office support. Three out of four failed projects will not.

"Insure" Your Large Program Investments

Gartner Consulting Program Management services help you:

• Develop investment strategies and plans, business cases for investment proposals and performance and success metrics for your programs and initiatives.
• Develop and implement disciplines and processes to help build, refine and prioritize your projects, programs and investment portfolio.
• Plan, organize and launch/manage your project, program or portfolio management office, including governance, charters, roles and responsibilities, processes and integrated program and project plans.
• Provide executive advisory services to help you transform your organization from your current state to your targeted end state.

Benefit From

• Gartner global consulting coverage, backed by the independence and objectivity of Gartner research.
• Risk avoidance measures that reduce or eliminate the likelihood of risk occurrences that would compromise your success.
• Skills and experience that help you report, collaborate and set expectations throughout long-lived projects and programs.
• Consultants and analysts with certifications and deep experience across many industry process-modeling frameworks.
• Ownership of all related IP, models and methods to adopt and use iteratively.

Customized Services To Fit Your Needs

Program Assessment:

• Compare the current state of your program's risk and maturity levels with industry best practices. Continue building your bench strength and ensure the successful management of people, process, and content quality.
• Get a full report of findings, analysis and recommendations for short, medium and long term actions. Can be one-time or scheduled periodically at project milestones.

Program Management Office (PMO):

• For clients with an existing PMO, we apply proven strategies and approaches to advance its maturity to help you achieve even greater results.
• For organizations lacking a formal PMO, we help you determine the best PMO model, organization and governance structure. You also get insight into the practices and tools designed to deliver the results you need within your time and budget constraints.

Program Assurance:

• Assure program success by adding experienced Gartner experts to your team. Our experts participate in your critical meetings, activities and decisions to ensure that natural biases are neutralized, driving program results to a successful conclusion.
• Get regular, informal and formal assessments—with readouts that assure executive involvement is sustained where it’s needed most.