Project Effectiveness

The pressure to deliver business change quickly challenges executives to manage the risks of projects not delivering more closely. They need to be confident they are investing in the right projects that will deliver the expected benefits, and that their portfolio of projects are being managed effectively.

However, project effectiveness is still wanting, as only 30% of all projects succeed and realise expected benefits.

To increase the likelihood of your project's success, you need to anticipate and address the risks inherent in your projects, institute proven processes for managing projects and provide for controls that ensure you obtain the results you expected.

Our experienced team can help:

  • Ensure projects deliver the desired benefits.
  • Projects complete on-time and on-budget.
  • Identify, assess and mitigate of a project’s key risks.
  • Motivate staff to accept changes.
  • Provide certainty that the right resources are invested in your new projects as needed.

How PwC can help you

Our Project Effectiveness services help clients significantly increase the likelihood of project success and realise the business objectives underlying their project.

Project delivery

Our experienced team can offer you assurance and assistance in delivering successful change projects, highly tailored for your business. We help our clients with benefit delivery, effective project governance, and proactive resource, schedule, risk, issue, dependency, scope and cost management.

Change management

We can maximise benefits by improving the alignment of the organisation behind the planned changes. This will assist stakeholders to become engaged in the changes, establish accountability for implementing new capabilities and, ultimately, assist with realising the benefits expected by the Board.

Portfolio management

Our experienced team can assist with project portfolio management to prioritise projects to deliver the best returns. We aim to allow you to continue business as usual, manage interdependencies between projects, and ensure the portfolio remains optimised over time as new opportunities arise.

Contacts
Chris Perree
Partner, New Zealand Leader Business Assurance
Auckland
Tel: +64 9 355 8045
Perry Woolley
Director
Auckland
Tel: +64 9 355 8268
Grant Dennis
Partner
Wellington
Tel: +64 4 462 7048

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