Globalizing Business Opportunities: Our Program Management Approach

• Governance: The structure, process, and procedure to control operations and changes to performance objectives
• Standards: Define the performance architecture
• Alignment: The program must support higher level vision, goals and objectives
• Assurance: Verify and validate the program, ensuring adherence to standards and alignment with the vision
• Management: Ensure there are regular reviews, there is accountability, and that management of projects, stakeholders and suppliers is in place
• Integration: Optimize performance across the program value chain, functionally and technically
• Finances: Tracking of finances is an important part of Program Management, basic costs and wider program costs are all tracked
• Infrastructure: Allocation of resources influences the cost and success of the program. Infrastructure might cover offices, version control, and IT
• Planning: Develop the plan bringing together the information on projects, resources, timescales, monitoring and control
• Improvement: Continuously assess performance; research and develop new capabilities; and systemically apply knowledge to the program