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Constant change and high disruption are the new normal.

Paradigm-shifting events, intensifying customer expectations and groundbreaking technology solutions are reshaping strategy, operations and culture for companies every day. Your success in this new normal depends on your ability to rapidly realign programs and projects to continuously evolving circumstances and strategies, and your ability to skillfully execute in a way that maximizes resources, minimizes risk and delivers results.

We see the challenges you are facing:

  • You need strategic alignment on your portfolio of programs and projects, plus the ability to quickly execute the highest impact programs and projects.
  • Your portfolio, program or project management office (PMO) needs to focus more on actively delivering business outcomes, less on centrally controlling business compliance.
  • Your project portfolio management (PPM) practice needs flexible and collaborative processes, tools and methods to keep pace with change.

Our Enterprise Portfolio and Program Management experts work with you to ensure that all of these elements work in concert to accelerate value delivery for your business. It’s about more than simply getting the job done—it’s about getting the job done well.

Our Enterprise Portfolio and Program Management Consulting Services

Our Strategic Portfolio Management Consulting services turn strategies into results by ensuring your portfolio is aligned to produce desired business outcomes. 

  • Strategic Portfolio Assessment: Understand your capabilities to strengthen SPM across the enterprise.
  • Strategic Initiative Formation: Align on the initiatives that drive evolving strategies and accelerate value delivery for your business.
  • Portfolio Governance and Oversight: Manage programs and projects with clear structures and consistent processes.
  • Portfolio Analysis and Development: Align projects and programs with strategic goals to reach desired business outcomes.
  • Strategic Value Management: Maximize available resources to achieve enterprise objectives.
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Strategic Evolution for Your PPM

As change and disruption make planning more challenging, companies have recognized the need to evolve their portfolio, program and project management capabilities from a supporting function to a core capability focused on end-to-end strategy execution and value realization. Imagine having your portfolio of programs and projects aligned to organizational outcomes, focused on strategy and fully executed to realize maximum benefit.

Joyce Meyer-Warren, National Enterprise Portfolio and Program Management Practice Lead, Centric Consulting
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Centered on You.

Our Business Consulting Services are structured to address your end-to-end business needs. We provide comprehensive support for your business across strategy, operations and culture.

Together with our partners in Strategy Alignment and Architecture, Operational Excellence, People and Change, and Technology Services, our Enterprise Portfolio and Program Management team finds data and forms insights to optimize your PMO and enhance your PPM.

Your work with us will be tailored especially for your business. Whatever your company’s challenge, we will engage the right expertise to guide you.

Connect with us to learn how we can help you execute strategy and deliver value faster.

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An Enterprise-Changing Partnership

One of the largest financial service firms in the U.S. planned to expand in the cryptocurrency market and needed a program management leader to help them launch a complex product in an ambiguous regulatory environment on a small timeline.

The company engaged us to integrate their new crypto product across six business units, 10 workstreams and 500+ team members. Together, we created an enterprise program management system to accelerate collaborative decision-making.

Our program leadership approach enabled the company to launch its cryptocurrency trading platform with impressive results: more than 54,000 new crypto accounts opened within 90 days.

 

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Our Enterprise Portfolio and Program Management FAQs

What are the key components of your Enterprise Portfolio and Program Management services?
Our Enterprise Portfolio and Program Management services consist of Strategic Portfolio Management, PMO Consulting and PMO as a Service. Strategic Portfolio Management includes assessing your strategic portfolio, forming your strategic initiatives, establishing governance and oversight for your portfolio, and analyzing and developing your portfolio. Our PMO Consulting Services includes capability discovery, maturity development and strategic transformation of your current PMO. Lastly, our PMO as a Service capability can provide your team with PPM leaders, staffing, training and tool selection and implementation.

How do you ensure strategic alignment of programs and projects with business goals?
Our Strategic Portfolio Management Consulting services help your organization align programs and projects with business goals through portfolio analysis and development. This service reviews your strategies, evaluates processes, identifies opportunities and defines a comprehensive roadmap to optimize your organization’s portfolio.

What methodologies do you use for portfolio governance and oversight?
We approach portfolio governance and oversight by evaluating your organization’s view into current projects and programs in your portfolio; determining if your current portfolio is built with benefits, costs, complexity and capacity in mind; and considering what controls and standards are currently in place for your projects and programs. With this information, we can help you create an enterprise portfolio governance framework that balances risk, reward and overall strategic value.

Can you provide examples of successful portfolio and program management implementations?
Recently, we worked with one of the largest financial services firms in the U.S. to help them expand in the cryptocurrency market. To do so, the organization needed a program management leader to launch a complex product in an ambiguous regulatory environment, and quickly. We worked with them to create an enterprise program management system to help speed up decision making while integrating their new crypto product across six business units, ten different workstreams, and over 500 team members. The program leadership approach helped the organization launch its cryptocurrency trading platform, leading to more than 54,000 new crypto accounts in just 90 days.

How do you handle the transition and integration of PMO services within an organization?
To help transition and integrate PMO services into an organization, we provide PMO consulting. Within this service, we’ll help your organization discover your capability to adopt a PMO, develop your maturity by providing a roadmap to define your PMO needs so you can integrate it across your enterprise, and transform your current PMO by elevating your project and program management structures, standards, tools, teams, practices and performance.

What kind of support do you offer for PMO capability discovery and maturity development?
For capability discovery, we will map an actionable plan to help improve your business’s PMO capabilities using an assessment that uncovers current PMO team status, challenges, tools and techniques, reporting, and overall effectiveness.

How do you address change management and agile practices within project portfolio management?
Change management and program management create a strong foundation for your organization to better integrate change into your company, which ensures better adoption at the project and program level. Our People and Change and Enterprise Portfolio and Program Management Consulting teams frequently collaborate as a result. Agile provides several benefits for planning and managing project resources due to its adaptability, flexibility, and focus on continuous improvement. Using agile to help your teams pivot, experiment and deliver value efficiently can help your organization find faster solutions, encourage cross-functional collaboration, quickly respond to customer feedback, gain more employee input, manage risk incrementally and provide your teams with higher job satisfaction.

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