Navigating Implementation Risks & Politics
For the timely completion of project milestones

When innovative, proactive ways to minimize company politics,
scope creep, and project roadblocks are needed.

Project management is often times swamped with juggling so many issues and concerns, that it is easy for implementation risks (especially organizational and workforce related risks) to fall through the cracks.  Many project teams may be good at identifying technical risks, but all too often fail to recognize or effectively address organizational and political risks.

eMergence One Consulting augments project management with a comprehensive risk management and issues tracking methodology.  This approach helps ensure that all critical factors (people and process risks, as well as technical) are tracked and mitigated in real-time.

A Sampling of Key Deliverables:
 

Benefits:

Helps to ensure that critical organizational, stakeholder, or workforce culture risks (which often leads to workarounds of the new system) are not overlooked or standing in the way of a successful implementation.

Provides efficient, clear-cut methods to identify, categorize, and prioritize both issues and risks so that efforts spent on risk mitigation yields maximum benefits.

Clearly defines and communicates roles, responsibilities, and decision-making processes so that project direction is maintained, and decisions are make in a timely manner.

Offers an unbiased perspective and innovative methods to capture and understand political risks, hidden agendas, and potential pitfalls to turn adversaries and “under-engaged” executives into project champions.

Our Experience:

We have established risk management procedures for numerous IT project teams faced with complex implementations on both the technical and organizational side.  Most clients have found our innovative methods to capture and mitigate corporate politics to be particularly helpful in politically charged atmospheres.

For one Fortune 100 client who was undertaking a $70 million CRM initiative, we helped a dozen project track managers integrate their disparate risk management processes into one standardized tracking system.  This helped to reduce 55 identified project risks to less than 35 (imagine the confusion and wasted time if different project managers started to mitigate similar risks!).  We then rated, prioritized, and assigned responsibility to each outstanding project risk in just a one-day session.  This process helped to keep this large, complex IT project on schedule and within budget, and preventing precious project dollars from being wasted.