This pre-recorded course of 1h 16 minutes plus exercises originally took a 3h half-day to work through.
All systems interventions – and indeed any non-systems intervention – are intended to have some effect on and in the system you’re focused on. Given the complexity of most of the systems we engage with, the outcomes can be distant in time and uncertain. How then to know whether any particular project or initiative is worth undertaking before you start? Equally, how can we evaluate the degree to which our work has actually worked? Benefits Realisation is a well proven approach to mapping out the effects that initiatives are intended to have and those they actually have.
Often in organisations there is a degree of competition for resources between different initiatives. So beyond any individual project there is a need to manage the balance of initiatives as a whole. Portfolio Management provides a set of tools and guidelines on how to do that.
Objectives
In this part you will cover:
- Benefits Realisation – theory and practice
- Portfolio Management – theory and practice
Trainer
This course is delivered by Patrick Hoverstadt. Patrick is a leading consultant and internationally recognised expert in systemic approaches to organisation design, strategy, and transformation, with over 30 years of experience. Founder of Fractal Ltd, he has worked across private, public, and third sectors—delivering complex organisation restructures, national-level diagnoses, and innovative strategic models. He is co-developer of the “Patterns of Strategy” methodology and a specialist in the Viable System Model. Patrick has advised major firms such as BAE Systems, Siemens, and Rolls Royce, as well as government bodies and global NGOs. A prolific thought leader, author, and educator, he has contributed to postgraduate programmes at ten universities worldwide and served as Chair of SCiO, the UK’s largest systems practitioner community.