The Benefits Realisation Plan in Public Sector

How to prepare a benefits realisation plan (BRP) and how it supports project management and performance management, with the main and most useful resources
Preparing your Benefits Realisation Plan
Benefits Planning is much more than just filling in a template - besides, who's template do you complete?

Follow this guide and links to resources. Of course I've only managed to add a few of the vital resources you will need (about 30 resources) so please do e-mail more that we can share.

Five Whys? Project Purpose
The key benefit of any project is that it solves a problem. That problem could be a positive one (we'd like to achieve more, better) or negative (we have to cut costs/ improve safety/ anything else).

How - Putting the Building Blocks in Place
Benefits Management is a fundamental part of Programme and Project Management. You could even say that a project only succeeds when it delivers the benefits it set out to achieve (outcomes rather than milestones).

Governance - ensuring the right people are involved, with the right controls
this is vital where user information, or staff information, is involved; this applies to pretty much all change in Health and Social Care

Benefits Management

Risk and Issue Management

Finance

Capacity & Capability

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Recent Additions and Updates

A moral dimension to consulting

Moral dilemmaIt's easy to assume that all of our decisions are purely rational, but they rarely if ever are rational.  And they always have consequences for others, usually consequences that we think we could not have predicted.

But consultants are not here to make decisions, only to provide information and advice.  Does this somehow absolve us from a moral responsibility?

 

The Ten Commandments in Professional Services (6-10)

Interpreting God's Commandments

I've written previously about applying the first five commandments to Professional Services.  Here I show how Do Not Murder, Do Not Steal and so on are just as relevant commandments in the nuance and subtlety of modern life as they ever were.

Read on - and there's an invitation to comment!

The 10 Commandments in Professional Services (1-5)

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Two greatest commandsThe Ten Commandments apply just as firmly in each aspect of our daily life as they apply to the whole of our lives.  I'm a management consultant, and on this page I explain how the first five of the Ten Commandments apply to management consulting and professional services.

Getting GPs involved in Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCG)

Life in the YearsMost healthcare providers, in UK the same as everywhere else, get paid for each activity they do.  If someone needs care, they get paid.  If someone is well, they don’t.  So there isn’t much incentive (for the healthcare provider) to keep people well, even though it is much better for the person, much better for the nation, and much lower cost.  Minney.org Ltd is working with one CCG to generate enthusiasm and involvement, and the results are fairly successful….

Clinical Commissioning Groups and the NHS

Commissioning Innovation

As we race forwards into clinical commissioning, there are lessons to be learnt from other people.  The latest book “The Innovator’s Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care” by Christensen, Grossman and Hwang points to some things we need to take account of. It makes good reading . . .