Governance and control is the ability to manage transformation activities in a structured way that creates the conditions for successful delivery. Benefits management is essential to this.
What is benefits management?
The identification, analysis, quantification, planning, tracking and realisation of positive outcomes / benefits that come about because of transformation activity, maximising the value that is delivered.
Essential for:
- All types of transformation.
Knowledge
- Knowledge of the benefit management lifecycle.
- Understanding of how to create a benefit management framework.
- Knowledge of benefit management tools, templates, and techniques.
Skills
Able to:
- Implement effective benefit governance.
- Identify potential benefits.
- Align benefits to strategy.
- Profile and baseline benefits, developing metrics and measures.
- Plan benefit delivery.
- Track progress.
- Engage with stakeholders.
- Manage risks associated with benefits realisation.
- Impact assesses changes.
- Communicate effectively verbally and in writing.
- Collaborate.
Behaviours
- Adaptable and pragmatic
- Collaborative
- Accountable
- Analytical
- Empathetic
- Solution focused
- Committed to continual learning
Related roles
- Benefit Manager
- Benefit Owner
- Project Manager
- Programme Manager
- Portfolio Manager
- Change Manager
- Product Owner
- Workstream Lead
- Sponsor
Governance and control – maturity index
The index attached sets out the typical governance and control characteristics demonstrated by councils at each stage of their transformation maturity.
