Live Webinar – March 16th 2016 7:30 am – 8:30 am EDT
Live Webinar – March 16th 2016 12:30 PM – 1:30 pm BT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category B – Free PDU
Sponsored by: Associaton for Project Management – APM

This session details how collaborative approaches and techniques can enable the realisation of cost, delivery, organisational and compliance based business benefits through a common understanding and application of a strategic collaborative framework.

Hearts and Minds
It is staggering to know that the emergence of benefits management, over some 25 years, has actually achieved relatively little positive impact on the management and success of projects and programmes!

Why is this?

There are many reasons but a fundamental lack of understanding and commitment to BM, as a cornerstone for project and programme success, continues to frustrate many protagonists across the global project and programme landscapes.

Our collective hearts and minds are simply not in the game.

Working Together
There is another crucial and game-changing view. Collaboration at its fundamental level is all about making sure that individuals and teams are behaving and interacting in the best possible ways in order to support and deliver mutual project or programme success and benefit.

Understanding the concepts behind truly collaborative behaviours and the value of collaboration cannot be underestimated.

Standards
BS 11000 (Collaborative Relationship Management) is a framework standard that enables organisations to focus on the adoption, implementation and maturity of collaboration approaches from a range of perspectives that ultimately enable cost, delivery, organisational and compliance based benefits to be realised including:

• Why: Looking at how collaborative working can support a business development strategy that positions relationships to maximum effect;
• How: Provision of a robust framework for collaborative working, ensuring a sustainable business; and
• Where: Exploring a range of practical applications of the approach in ensuring the creation of business value.

ndrew will then describe how new and collaborative approaches dramatically change the way benefits and value are defined, managed and realised within organisations.

Key to this is the leadership, engagement and participation of beneficiaries and wider stakeholders. Traditionally benefits practices are seen to be the domain of projects and programmes.

Perhaps that is the one of the main reasons why programmes aren’t successful in delivering the expected value?

Presenters:

Andrew Hudson (LinkedIn profile) BEng, Managing Director, ChangeDirector, is a leading practitioner and implementer of management methods and systems covering strategy, operations and change working with many organisations internationally. Previously with Rolls-Royce aerospace as a systems and methods engineer where Andrew was responsible for the front end of the Trent planning system. This award winning programme was used to simultaneously engineer 1,000’s of design and make products for the Trent aero engine.  More recently he has led the development of ChangeDirector. This is one of the few tools to support value and benefits management and was recognised by Gartner as a Cool Vendor in 2012.

David E Hawkins, Operations Director and Knowledge Architect, Institute for Collaborative Working (ICW)  has been associated with the development and implementation of construction industry major projects in many parts of the world for 40+ years. His insight into the  organizational & cultural challenges that projects can generate, allowed David to be a strong promoter of collaboration and partnering concepts.

David was the architect and author of the CRAFT collaborative methodology and technical author of the British Standards Institution (BSI) PAS 11000 framework, the world’s first collaborative business relationship standard and was the driving force behind the creation of BS 11000 -1: 2010 Collaborative business relationships – Part 1: A framework specification, and chairman of the BSI committee who developed the standard. In 2009 he was acknowledged as one of the world’s top 100 thought leaders on corporate social responsibility (CSR).

David was also instrumental in commissioning the report that details the outcomes from the ‘Benefits Realisation from Collaborative Working’ research activities undertaken by Warwick Business School and sponsored by ICW.

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The Benefits Of Collaboration