Major programmes

Major Challenges. Major Programmes.

Major programmes shape society. They are the vehicles through which organisations deliver their biggest transformations and governments enact their most important policies.

However, in an increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) world, most programmes of scale fail to deliver the desired outcomes and required benefits on time and within budget.

“The iron law of megaprojects: over budget, over time, under benefits, over and over again.”

- Prof. Bent Flyvbjerg - Emeritus Professor, Saïd Business School

The problem with major programmes

75%

major programmes fail to meet budget or deadlines

IPA

$1m

wasted every 20 seconds due to poor project management

PMI

56%

less value than predicted delivered by large-scale IT

University of Oxford

Programmes don’t go wrong, they start wrong.

The world has changed, yet the fundamentals of programme management haven’t for over 50 years. Traditional methods are increasingly inadequate for delivering large-scale, complex programmes.

Programmes exist in complex delivery ecosystems. A different approach is needed to optimise these delivery ecosystems and avoid hard-coding failure into a programme's DNA from the outset.

Our NextGen delivery approach drives intelligent decision making with digital tools and brings together multidisciplinary teams to create an efficient and harmonious ecosystem that is critical to delivering programmes faster, better and cheaper.

Traditional methods are failing and what's needed is a shift in programme mindset with some new thinking and technologies.

Programme Aerodynamics®

We have a new way of starting a project right.

Based on our experience solving some of the most complex problems for clients, we have created a next generation delivery framework designed to nurture the conditions for success for the world’s largest programmes.

Programme Aerodynamics® combines new thinking and technologies with best-in-class programmatic disciplines to create a forward-looking, data-driven and human centred delivery capability.

Intelligence-led decision-making is at its heart, helping to significantly reduce risk and support the dynamics required to deliver at pace.

Five core elements work together dynamically to minimise friction and effectively lead and manage major programmes.

Continuous strategy

Your delivery ecosystem’s strategic hub and ‘guiding mind’. It uses data and simulation to predict and adapt to change, ensuring your organisation stays ahead of the curve and delivers maximum value.

Flexible architecture

A detailed schematic of your transformation landscape in its entirety. This provides a deeper understanding and insight into the flexibility in the system, determining which levers can be pulled to maintain course toward the desired outcome when inevitable disruption occurs.

Transformation delivery

The optimal blend of programmatic core disciplines, methods and tools contained in the PMBOK that form the foundation of successful delivery.

Digital catalyst

Combines new thinking and digital technologies with “best in class” established programmatic disciplines to create a robust, forward-looking data driven capability with intelligence-based decision making at its heart.

Human system design

Puts people at the heart of your transformation, creating a harmonious and high performing delivery ecosystem at every stage of the evolving lifecycle. Enables information and data flow, and encourages minimum viable bureaucracy, empowering decision-making at the point of most intelligence.

Our thinking

Spotlight

Infrastructure strategy

Our response to the HMT Ten Year Infrastructure Strategy Working Paper

Read Deloitte's point of view

Major projects: the new government’s opportunity to build trust in its delivery

In this article, Deloitte’s Dominic Cook explores the importance of major programme delivery in defining public trust in the state.

Read the blog

The earlier a decisive intervention to prevent programme failure, the more likely the intervention will succeed.

Dominic Cook - Partner, Deloitte Major Programmes and Dr Harvey Maylor - Professor, Said Business School

The iron law of megaprojects: over budget, over time, under benefits, over and over again.

Prof. Bent Flyvbjerg - Emeritus Professor, Saïd Business School

The NextGen Transformation Lab

So how do you work out what we do next?

The NextGen Delivery Transformation Lab takes our clients on an immersive journey, creating consensus around the nature of their challenges, the change in mindset that needs to occur and the transition from their current state to one that creates the right conditions for success. That journey has a clearly defined set of next steps that takes them from a traditional model to an enhanced NextGen capability.

NextGen Delivery Transformation Labs utilise a structured process, combined with our experience on similar large-scale, complex engagements to create a forward-looking mindset and drive pragmatic conversations around achieving successful delivery in a VUCA environment.

Learn more about The NextGen Transformation Lab

Capital Programmes

So if you have a capital programme project, what do you do?

Deloitte advises, set up, transform and help deliver the largest and most complex major capital programmes to make large scale strategic, transformation, investment and delivery decisions.

Learn more about Capital Programmes

Major Programmes that deliver for people

Major Challenges. Major Programmes.