Program health check
Every complex business program runs into difficulties at some point during their life. Schedule delays, missed milestones, budget overruns and dealing with their impact on customer expectations are some typical program issues that need to be addressed by the program management team, when they occur – it’s part and parcel of their job.
But sometimes, problems seem to grow beyond the control of the team. You can see it when significant time and effort is spent resolving one issue after the next, delays increase and project productivity begins to drop. Your sense of control then begins to wane as no obvious improvement takes shape.
Program health checks may provide an answer. These activities focus on finding the underlying causes that often produce many seemingly unrelated problems within projects and programs. This diagnosis approach to helping troubled programs requires significant expertise and knowledge of program design, delivery and methodology. Similarly, treatment requires knowledge and experience of what needs to be done to help a project, and a realistic assessment of the outcome.
Deloitte’s program health checks can help you quickly understand where problems are occurring in your programs and we can assist with the development and implementation of recovery plans.
With our approach, this can be achieved by focussing on three key areas:
- program examination – observe programs in action, recognise and quickly identify root causes to problems
- program diagnostics – Deloitte’s extensive library of tools, methods and techniques assists and supports rapid diagnosis, problem identification data collection and reporting
- program turnaround – utilise our extensive experience to help formulate and implement practical program recovery strategies.
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