Both public sector organizations and commercial companies routinely initiate programs and projects to achieve specific corporate objectives, improve operations, or transform business through use of new technologies. The success of these programs and projects depends upon comprehensive planning, management, and monitoring. Very often businesses and organizations find that the projects are failing to meet their intended objectives due to schedule delays, cost overruns, or scope changes.
Our experts have extensive experience in the planning, management, and recovery of programs and projects ranging in value from less than $1 million to over $20 billion. KBS experts have delivered important programs and projects in diverse industries.
KBS can help you plan and deliver critical programs on time and save money while ensuring that the programs meet their intended objectives
KBS can help recover delayed programs while addressing underlying weaknesses to strengthen your organization’s overall capability to deliver programs and projects
Our program and project management services include:
Program Assessment:
Corporate programs often require long time frames and extensive resources. Occasionally, these programs fail to identify and address risks resulting in schedule delays and cost overruns. More importantly, programs sometimes fail to meet their intended objectives even after on-time delivery due to weaknesses in program planning and design.
KBS designs and executes structured program assessments to help provide assurance to our clients that their ongoing programs:
- Are designed to meet specific corporate and strategic objectives
- Are progressing as planned
- Have identified any potential risks and implemented risk mitigation strategies
We utilize defined program assessment frameworks to review all areas of program delivery from governance, planning, procurement, execution, and performance monitoring. Our comprehensive assessments help us uncover root causes of non-performance and identify corrective actions that make a real impact on the organizations ability to deliver value-adding programs.
Our experts are certified by leading project management bodies and have extensive experience in assessing programs of all sizes and in diverse industries.
We don’t simply look at a program in isolation, but combine our expertise in strategy, corporate performance, risk management, and technology to ensure that your programs, individually or as a portfolio, are aligned with your corporate objectives and strategic priorities and will help your organization achieve real value.
Program Planning, Management, and Monitoring:
Major corporate and government programs require proper planning, robust management, and ongoing monitoring. This requires that a comprehensive approach is taken towards how programs are planned and executed. Incomplete planning and weaknesses in program oversight can derail most programs resulting in financial losses and inability to meet strategic priorities.
KBS can help design and manage all aspects of your major and complex programs. Our expertise in all program areas including business case and financial analysis, strategic planning, risk management, procurement, program management, and performance monitoring helps provide real impact in achieving positive outcomes for your programs.
We can provide expertise in defined areas to improve performance. In addition, we can also provide experienced and certified program and project managers to supplement your in-house resources. In either case, we ensure proper knowledge transfer so that your internal program management capabilities can develop through our engagement.
Recovery of Non-Performing Programs:
All corporate programs face challenges during the execution and implementation phase. Quiet often, programs experience schedule delays or cost overruns. Many times, programs face unanticipated risks that can have negative impacts.
Our experts have strong experience in helping recover programs facing performance challenges. We utilize comprehensive frameworks to look at all aspects of troubled programs, identify root causes of non-performance, and develop and implement practical and effective action plans.
Our experts will quickly conduct a comprehensive diagnosis to understand performance issues and their underlying causes. We will work with the program owners to define program objectives and identity solutions that can have a real impact on ensuring successful program delivery.
Our experts are certified by leading project management bodies and have extensive experience in recovering major programs in diverse industries.
