Practical Benefits Approach - the document, a mixed blessing

Submitted by Hugo_Minney on Mon, 08/17/2009 - 22:29

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If the Benefits Management Strategy is the high-level and relatively unchanging document, then with the Benefits Approach and Benefits Tracking process we get down to the nitty gritty of doing the doing.
Identifying Benefits
Profiling
Creating a High-Level plan and getting signup
Quantifying, and getting signup
Summarising and Detailing
Planning the realisation
the Benefits Realisation Plan
The Benefits Approach is about a whole lot more detail on how you will tackle this
Benefits Planning is the process
The Benefits Approach is the document
Benefits Realisation is the progress you make on your project or programme
A flexible document
The Benefits Approach will have to change to take account of the development of the project. You will have noticed that it hardly ever runs smoothly, that there are usually changes. This also applies to Benefits - the ones you thought of at the start, and the ways you chose to realise them, may prove impractical and you have to change. The Benefits Approach is the ideal place to make these changes.
See also
Benefits Management Strategy
Benefits Approach
Benefits Tracking Process
to carry on understanding the Benefits Management Strategy, Go back to the Benefits Management Strategy

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