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Benefits Management and Impact Evaluation

Outcome-focused investment

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The challenge of clearly identifying and quantifying the real benefits of investments undermines the ability to build compelling business cases and demonstrate long-term value. Inconsistent approaches to benefits management can result in ineffective evidence of organisational and initiative impact, weak stakeholder alignment, limited strategic impact, and inadequate data for impact evaluation.

Robust demonstration of return on investment requires a clear line of sight to strategic objectives, with clear identification of the scale and scope of the intended impact.  

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Service overview

Realising benefits and evidencing impact

Benefits Management and Impact Evaluation provides a foundation for initiatives and organisations to evidence high-value impacts realised from their investment. 

We design, develop, and embed proportionate and effective benefits management frameworks to empower organisations in evidencing real-world outcomes of initiatives and justify future investments. Supporting you to adopt consistent, data-driven approaches with proactive stakeholder engagement, enabling you to align initiatives with strategic goals and extract maximum value from your investment portfolios. 

Methods provides tailored training and coaching to enable teams to embed sustainable and effective benefits management, aligned to organisational priorities, and reflective of the complexities they operate in. 

A focus on impact and stakeholder benefits through the whole lifecycle – from business case through to evaluation, supporting customers to maximise and evidence the true value of investments in change

Features
  • Establish governance for effective benefits management in line with best practice requirements, embedding benefits-led decision making
  • Creation of frameworks and strategic guidelines for delivery teams, assurers, and leaders
  • Coaching and training, building sustainable capability within teams
  • Facilitation of workshops and stakeholder engagement to identify and define key benefits across stakeholder groups  
  • Portfolio or organisational level framework development to define a proportionate benefits management strategy and strategic monitoring requirements
  • Hands-on project and programme support, identifying sustainable approaches to effectively implementing benefits management 
  • Alignment with PMO reporting, change management, communications, and other organisational teams 
  • Integration of benefits management with evaluation, monitoring and analysis, and impact evaluation, ensuring a coordinated and efficient approach to data capture and reporting
  • Evaluation of the current impact of your initiatives and finding opportunities to strengthen and evidence this
  • Development of tools, templates, and architecture that support organisational requirements 
  • Roadmap development to support organisations in identifying steps to grow benefits management and impact evaluation maturity 
 
Benefits
  • Provides a consistent approach to prioritisation, providing a robust framework to evaluate opportunities against organisational goals
  • Ensures initiatives have a clear line of sight to strategic objectives with defined contributions towards achieving them 
  • Facilitates clear, consistent, and consolidated reporting to boards across wide-ranging portfolios
  • Supports evidence-based decision making through project and programme delivery lifecycle
  • Increased focus on the longer-term benefits across stakeholder groups, building strong engagement and buy-in  
  • Improved return on investment through accurate valuation of the benefits at the business case stage and monitoring through delivery 
  • Supports long-lasting change through providing clear monitoring frameworks for effectively embedding change from project and programme deliverables  
  • Increases compliance with government standards for business case development, delivery, and assurance
  • Embedding a benefits-led culture, where delivery is focused on achieving the maximal impact as well as time, cost, and quality
  • Supports prioritisation of initiatives to ensure you are focused on the most impactful work 
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