PPM Software Selection

Your anxiety

Your organisation is striving to improve its reporting capability and the management of project data across the business. You realise a programme and project management (PPM) tool may support this capability and potentially provide substantial benefits. You are unsure, however, how to approach what can be a daunting challenge and sizeable investment.

Understanding what tool is best and then deciding how best to deploy it within your organisation may require tough decisions
when considering the investment and long term benefits at stake.

How we can help you

Our approach falls into three stages:

• Drawing the current landscape – a PPM tool should support the organisation’s people and PPM processes. As such, internal analysis of people and process is where this decision should begin. A clear understanding of how mature current processes are and their suitability to being supported by an integrated tool would be developed. The existing landscape of tools must also be understood.
• Creating a future blueprint – knowing your starting point helps inform what a future landscape of tools and processes could look like. Developing this from within the business then determines what functionality you want from an integrated tool, where exactly in the business you want it and, importantly, when.
• Intelligent Vendor Selection – having clarity about what you want provides you with the intelligence to select an appropriate vendor and determine support arrangements that fit your specific needs. This provides the foundation for an appropriate selection process aligned to your specific needs.

How we would work with you

We will act as completely independent, knowledgeable advisers throughout this process. We also seek to ensure that the knowledge gained remains within the
organisation throughout the selection of a software tool and its subsequent implementation by co-working closely with our clients. A PPM tool may require significant change in thinking and wider business influences must be understood from within the organisation. We typically use workshops with business representatives from across the organisation to develop and validate findings and proposals.

We also encourage, and can frequently help set up, meetings with other organisations which have been through similar experiences. This enables learning from them and provides invaluable and impartial lessons to be learned from the outset.

Tools & training we can provide

The analytical frameworks and models we use are readily tailored to any client’s specific circumstances and we regard coaching and training the client team in their use of these as a key part of our role. Our methods of co-working closely with our clients ensure that skills are quickly transferred to the client team and that their ability to repeat the software selection process the next time is considerably enhanced.

How this could deliver value for you

Our PPM software selection methodology has enabled large corporate clients to progress from un-structured and uncertain visions of what they hope to achieve from a PPM-tool to a position where they can produce well defined and understood requirements. These are then subsequently used to challenge and select vendors capable of meeting their specific needs. This approach – which engenders internal ownership of the vendor decision – sets a confident platform for the
implementation work that will ensue.

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If you would like to talk to us call on the number below. Alternatively, click on the consultants email address, provide us with your details and we will call you back. We look forward to speaking to you. Contact: Email: Tel: Dom Moorhouse dommoorhouse@moorhouseconsulting.com +44 (0) 1225 446 313