Having a plan is better than nothing but planning is everything...

Key Benefits

• Independent assessment of your business needs –  not biased to a vendor

• Comprehensive business analysis ensures no gaps in your Business Case

• Application of PRINCE2 provides peace of mind thru the entire project lifecycle

• No conflict of interest – FPS is committed to cost-effective delivery – we won’t increase your scope to increase our sales potential

• FPS will deliver on time and to budget – you can plan beyond completion with confidence

• Our planning process ensures minimum disruption to your business as usual activities

Capabilities

• Operational analysis skills allow us to map out your “as is” business processes in such a way that they can easily be compared and assessed against the “to be” processes

• Benefits analysis ensures a realistic assessment of the improvements to be gained both in terms of business process and cost efficiency

• FPS produces Business Cases that gain approval first time – it isn’t an iterative process

• Our procurement experience ensures that the specification of requirement is unambiguous, product delivery milestone focussed and complete.

• FPS project managers deliver products against stage milestones and well defined acceptance criteria. Progress against milestone completion is transparent to our customers.

• MS Project / Server expertise ensures that the current plan is presented at an appropriate level of detail for the project team, suppliers and stakeholders.

Adding value to the stages of a Project

• FPS has seen companies buy off-the-shelf software (e.g. ERP systems) and then spend (aided and abetted by the vendor) £millions translating their requirements into configuration design documents. Spend too little time on this activity and you risk implementing a system which is loose fitting, spend too much and the law of diminishing returns applies.

• FPS has sufficient experience and business know-how to ensure that our clients do not suffer from paralysis by analysis and spend too much money and time on pre-implementation activities.

• FPS has developed bespoke Project Management tools and even a fully functional secure Electronic Document Management system. This background in software engineering coupled with our virtual office approach to business is particularly useful during the implementation, test and roll-out phases of a project. Our basic understanding of how these applications are engineered is useful in gauging whether a supplier is correct when they assert that something is impossible.  Perhaps most importantly, FPS knows how to test software applications to a commercial standard; our independence of your suppliers gives you confidence that testing will be rigorous and complete.

• Roll-out of major implementations is a stressful time for all concerned especially when the ability to pay staff salary and expenses could be compromised. FPS expect to be retained to ensure a smooth transition to new business processes and systems prior to hand-over of the systems to routine maintenance and support. During this stage the FPS project manager will be determining facts about the system and the ability of the users to exploit it efficiently. Knowledge of these facts helps business leaders take appropriate action to facilitate a rapid transition.

Transformational change

FPS generally defines Transformational Change as the achievement of a desired state of operation that fully exploits the capabilities of  the implemented system in achieving the business benefits articulated in the Business Case.  Post-rollout FPS Project Managers are often retained to facilitate Transformational Change helping the client to be as self-sufficient as possible in achieving business benefits. A key enabler is to help staff understand all the business processes associated with the implemented system including those which remove bottlenecks in workflow, maintain joiners leavers and mover staff records, and accommodate unexpected occurrences in the business. Giving your staff confidence that they can cope with any eventuality is a key element of transformation, and in this respect whilst FPS doesn’t employ a sink or swim attitude we do discourage an over-reliance on consultants (including us) and third-party suppliers.

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