Realising the full cost-benefit of your IT investment.

We all know that IT should be designed as an enabler to organisational operations, while fully reflecting the particular processes and culture of an organisation.  However, statistics suggest organisations are consistently failing to realise the expected cost-benefit of their IT implementations.

The Efficient Programme Delivery approach is all about minimising risk, increasing 'certainty of delivery' and maximising the organisational fit of your IT implementations, for a planned and minimum appropriate investment.

Using this approach, investment in 'Quality Assurance' is minimal, budgeted and measurable, and technology change works in partnership with the business to support organisational change.

• Organisation process and system functionality are unaligned
• Lack of stakeholder ownership throughout the development process and late involvement of end users
• Insufficient collaboration between stakeholders and IT managers, security and testing professionals
• Shifting, disparate and ambiguous requirements.
  

At Sopra Group, we not only understand these common barriers to success, but also the specific challenges facing your industry.  Using our blend of specialist services, we have been supporting organisations successfully through optimisation programmes for over 22 years.

Ensuring Organisational Fit:  Ensuring key stakeholders are fully involved in your programme and goal setting, as well as making sure supporting business processes are well defined and implemented on time, will no doubt be one of the main challenges of your programme implementation.  Our Consensus Management service develops a sound basis for change by clarifying and aligning the objectives of multiple programme stakeholders.  By using Change Targeting techniques to identify the parts of the programme which will have the most immediate impact, results can be seen quickly and  resources targeted at the right areas.  Our Benefits Realisation service supports the organisation to systematically and proactively manage and measure the transformation process, thus reducing the implementation risk.

Delivering On Time And To Budget: Our Requirements Testing service involves working with your business to define appropriate and measurable programme requirements that, when employed throughout the programme lifecycle, improve certainty of delivery, both in terms of time and budget.  We use proven techniques to reduce costs and increase programme efficiency by influencing upstream quality. These savings can, in turn, be used to increase programme throughput without increasing resource levels, or to reduce the overall IT costs while maintaining existing levels of capacity.

Governance & Risk Management:  Pre-development, our specialists work in partnership with your programme stakeholders and IT functions to develop fully owned and traceable requirements, which are measurable and referred to at every stage of the project, thus providing Software Assurance.  Using our established risk-based techniques, we work with you to understand your critical threats and processes.   Based on this assessment, we design appropriate testing and security programmes for implementation throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring that your critical risks are mitigated prior to launch.

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