BCS Certificate in Benefits Planning & Realisation
This 3-day training course is an in-depth examination of the benefits planning and realisation process.
The course includes how to identify, plan and realise benefits, allowing you to develop a deep understanding of how to effectively manage benefits throughout a project or change initiative.
Delegates will understand key benefits planning and realisation techniques and practices, such as benefits identification, benefits mapping and benefits tracking, helping you to improve your skills and job performance in your current or future roles.
The course includes practical exercises, group discussions and a corporate case study to provide a more interactive learning experience, to give you an opportunity to apply the concepts learned.
On successful completion of the course, you will be awarded the BCS Professional Certificate in Benefits Planning and Realisation. This is a widely recognised and respected qualification that demonstrates your knowledge and understanding of benefits planning and realisation.
Course Dates
➡️2 - 4 April 2024
➡️3 - 5 June 2024
➡️9 - 11 September 2024
➡️11 - 13 November 2024
➡️Ask Martin for availability & further details.
Course Outline
The context of benefits management
- Issues with the relationship of IS/IT delivery to benefits
- Dissatisfaction with current approaches to benefits delivery
- The characteristics of a benefits management approach
- Focusing on value and value networks
- Value chains and value networks
- Case study exercise 1
- Knowledge check
The benefits management process
- The rationale for benefits management
- The origins of the benefits management approach and process
- An overview of the benefits management process
- Knowledge check
Identifying drivers, benefits and establishing a benefits dependency network
- Why: identifying business and organisational drivers
- Establishing investments objectives
- Linking business benefits to drivers
- What: the business benefits
- How: the benefits dependency network
- Measurements and ownership
- Benefits and change template
- Case study exercise 2 – 6
- Knowledge check
Building the business case
- The rationale of the business case
- A structure for analysing and describing benefits
- Quantifying the benefits
- Financial benefits
- Investment appraisal
- Risk Assessment
- Completing the business case
- Case study exercise 7 & 8
- Knowledge check
Stakeholders and change management
- Assessing the feasibility of achieving the benefit
- Stakeholder analysis and management techniques
- From stakeholder analysis to stakeholder management action
- Completing the benefits plan
- Approaches to managing change
- Matching management approach with stakeholder behaviours
- Change management strategies
- Case study exercise 9
- Knowledge check
Implementing a benefits management approach
- Rationales for introducing benefits management
- Initiating and managing a benefits driven project
- Roles within benefits management
- Benefits management workshops
- The benefits plan and the project plan
- Reviewing and evaluating results
- Establishing potential for further benefits
- Monitoring benefits after implementation
- A maturity model for organisational benefits
- Knowledge check
The future of benefits management
- Characteristics of the benefits management approach
- Using benefits management to formulate and implement strategy
- Incorporating benefits management into strategic thinking
- Future trends in IS/IT and their implications for benefits management
Your Training Instructor: Bill Aitken
Bill has enjoyed around 30 years in IT, following on from 20 years commissioned service in the RAF. He offers a wide skillset, having been a developer (Ada, Java, Python, C, 8086 Assembly), Systems Analyst, Business Analyst and Software Tester in his time. He has developed/delivered IT courses ranging from one-hour, brown-bag consultancy sessions right up to solo 6-week, residential IT courses.
Clients have varied from blue-chip global enterprises in the financial, aviation, defence, retail and manufacturing industries down to individually owned companies. He has delivered courses in locations such as San Francisco in the west to Vilnius in the east; from Reykjavik in the north to Rome in the south, concluding with 4 years in the Middle East, developing competency systems for the oil and gas industries.
Bill is a state-registered teacher and a Charted Fellow of the British Computer Society.