Overview

Two intensive days of results-driven, realistic and joined-up answers to today’s high-paced world of fragmented change.

 

Change is accelerating and fragmenting, fast.  This workshop is for everyone who needs to have a joined-up view of change:  joined-up goals, architectures, requirements, risks, resources and methods.  If that’s you, then your role is about creating across-the-board outcomes that are more than just the sum of individually-chosen changes.

The acceleration of change is outside-in.  Markets transform and customer choices evolve faster than many enterprises are capable of changing, yet slower than others would prefer.  Getting out-of-sync with the market, one way or the other, is now more likely than ever and will soon show up in the business results.  Speed-to-outcomes is now a defining requirement in choosing the best changes to invest in.

Fragmented change is both a trend and a choice.  Global developments, such as digitalization, AI and enterprise agility, are exploding the volume and diversity of ideas to invest in.  Meanwhile, people are dividing-up changes – where possible – into small, low-risk and iterative deliveries, worked on by self-governing teams.  So, being dynamic at creating co-ordinated outcomes, through diverse and fragmented initiatives, is now at the heart of our excellence at investing in change.

Two days.  Eight inter-related workshop sessions.  As many of your real-world challenges as we can answer in the time.  Starting with what it takes to be excellent at investing in change, and finishing with what you want to do next.  We’ll explore strategy, culture, process, portfolio, structure and performance.  And, conclude the “dream team” capabilities that every enterprise needs today – to create joined-up outcomes, at market-speed, from an increasing diversity of ideas and initiatives.

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Learning Objectives

Bring your challenges and learning objectives with you!

The workshop is about answering as many of them as possible in the time available.

  • Create joined-up outcomes from a diversity of ideas and initiatives. The six inter-related ingredients of success at investing in change.
  • Use one goals-driven and dynamic Change Portfolio. Joined-up investment in ideas, innovations, transformations, waterfall projects, agile releases, and so on.
  • Map your Investment Process and Culture, and fix any significant gaps: Speed-to-Outcomes as the momentum for change.
  • Transform your enterprise in-sync with the market. Why it is essential to invest in your enterprise’s structure.
  • Grow the impact and value of your change-related capabilities. The “dream-team” capabilities for driving dynamic and joined-up change.

Course Outline

How to Be Excellent at Investing in Change

  • Having a clear Investment Strategy, using tried-and-tested principles
  • Why some changes work better than others, and some don’t work at all
  • The six ingredients of dynamic, efficient and goals-driven change

 Culture Cooks-Up, and Eats, the Changes Your Enterprise Invest In

  • Start here: diagnose and map the Investment Culture
  • Your culture’s personality, maturity, and impact on results
  • How to fix an underperforming culture

 Turning Ideas into Outcomes, at Market-Speed

  • The Investment Processat the heart of your enterprise
  • Using Speed-to-Outcomes to drive momentum and choices
  • Working with multi-speed methods for implementing change

 Priority Goals, Dynamic Choices, Efficient Investments

  • The four generations of Change Portfolio
  • From initiatives-driven to goals-driven change, and beyond
  • Prioritise goals, then dynamically invest in the best mix of ideas

 Transforming In-Sync with the Market

  • The three inter-related architectures: market, enterprise, business
  • What outcomes you need from transformational changes?
  • Why it’s essential to invest in Structural Performance

 People Create Outcomes from Change

  • Who is, in reality, driving your Portfolio Performance?
  • Creating shared outcomes from self-governing changes
  • How to manage diverse, and realistic, probabilities of success

 Joined-Up Capabilities, for Joined-Up Outcomes

  • How your enterprise achieves more than just the sum of its silos
  • The dream-team capabilities, for driving co-ordinated investments
  • Enterprise Architects + Business Analysts + Change Portfolio Managers

 Your Enterprise: What Next?

  • What’s already working, what to focus on now
  • The to-do list for tomorrow and beyond: technical, cultural, political?
  • Choosing your results-driven, practical and dynamic interventions.

Who It's For

Dynamic Strategies for Investing in Change is a multi-disciplinary workshop, for everyone involved in joined-up change, including:

  • Enterprise Architects
  • Business Architects
  • Senior Business Analysts
  • Change Portfolio Managers and PMO leaders, including those working in Finance and IT
  • Organisational Change Specialists
  • Business Process Designers
  • Consultants specialising in Business Change and Transformation

Speaker

Chris Potts

Practitioner, Mentor, Trainer and Author

Dominic Barrow

Chris works with people in diverse countries, cultures and industries, helping them to grow their capabilities at investing in change.  He trains Executives, Enterprise Architects and Designers, Business Analysts and Change Portfolio Managers, in how to create joined-up outcomes, collaboratively and at market-speed, from an increasing diversity of ideas and initiatives.

Chris is also a professional speaker, delivering keynote speeches, executive briefings, public and private workshops, and university guest lectures.  He has also chaired world-leading conferences on Business Change, Transformation, Innovation, and Enterprise Architecture.

As a practitioner, he specialises in short, dynamic and outcomes-driven interventions, delivering breakthrough results in hours or days – for example:

– Creating an integrated, goals-driven Change Portfolio for a global group based in 35 countries
– Finding that over 40% of an enterprise’s total investment was in changes they did not need
– Formulating a 3-year strategy for ambitious business growth, by prioritising investment in goals not initiatives
– Reducing the diversity of a company’s changes by 60%, to achieve the portfolio goals with less risk and more focus
– Redesigning how a GBP 200 million-turnover charity invested efficiently in change

Chris is the author of a trilogy of business novels – FruITion, RecrEAtion and DefrICtion – that explore the inter-woven stories of strategy, investing in change, enterprise architecture and portfolio management, through the eyes of three very different people: a CIO, an Enterprise Architect, and a Global Chief Executive. He is also architect of the Enterprise Investment Portfolio Management Method, EIPMM® (www.eipmm.com).

Fees

  • 2 days
  • £1,295
  • £1,295 + VAT (£259) = £1,554
Group Booking Discounts
Delegates
2-3 10% discount
4-5 20% discount
6+ 25% discount

Cancellation Policy:
Cancellations must be received in writing at least two weeks before the commencement of the seminar and will be subject to a 10% administration fee. It is regretted that cancellations received within two weeks of the seminar date will be liable for the full seminar fee. Substitutions can be made at any time.

Cancellation Liability:
In the unlikely event of cancellation of the seminar for any reason, IRM UK’s liability is limited to the return of the registration fee only. IRM UK will not reimburse delegates for any travel or hotel cancellation fees or penalties. It may be necessary, for reasons beyond the control of IRM UK, to change the content, timings, speakers, date and venue of the seminar.

Venue

  • etc.venues Marble Arch Garfield House 86 Edgware Road London W2 2EA

Accommodation

IRM UK in association with JP Events Ltd has arranged special discounted rates at all venues and at other hotels nearby the venue. Please visit the JP Events website for further information.

Email: mina@jpetem.com Tel: +44 (0)84 5680 1138

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