How we can help you:
Project management services
We have exceptional people - professional and personable - and match them with our own people-centric methods and tools to achieve your goals more predictably and consistently. We are skilled at tackling a variety of business management challenges including:
Translate a problem or idea into thoughtful action
We help leaders and teams translate ideas and problems into well-designed, structured plans
Form a high performance team
We help leaders quickly form productive and high achieving teams
Simplify planning & alignment
We work with leaders and teams to rapidly identify priorities and develop solid plans
Deliver a Project
We can lead your projects through planning and delivery
Assess readiness or performance
We help leaders understand how to improve their work
Recover a Project
We help leaders turnaround troubled projects
Deliver a Project
We can lead your projects through planning and delivery
Assess readiness or performance
We help leaders understand how to improve their work
Recover a Project
We help leaders turnaround troubled projects
Implement Project Management Frameworks
We develop and implement investment and project management frameworks to match your business and project needs
Translate a problem or idea into thoughtful action
We help leaders turn ideas and problems into well-designed, structured plans
Leaders often face the daunting task of being given a challenging task to deliver or problems to solve from little more than the original concept. We help leaders extrapolate the ideas, problems and approach into well-defined structured plans ready to be delivered.
We work with leaders to:
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Develop high quality objectives which frame problems and success measures in clear and simple ways
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Design a sophisticated yet simple work structure fit for the nature of the work and straightforward delivery
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Build structured plans to convert the requirements and expectations into a solid basis for a business success
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Create highly professional resources by which to influence and build confidence with stakeholders
Forming a high performance team
We help leaders form productive and high achieving teams
Forming a high achieving team to tackle ambitious and complex work has been the subject of decades of studies. PQ helps leaders to engage individuals and groups in a highly engaging way in order to kick-off the work with the best chance of being successful.
We work with leaders and teams to:
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Ensure the team has a clear and shared understanding of the objectives
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Share the often-unspoken principles that are critical to the conduct of good teamwork
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Work with the team to clarify who will what
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Lead the team to an agreed social contract of standards and behaviours
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Setup the routines by which to best navigate the inevitable problems and issues
Simplified planning and alignment
We work with leaders and team to rapidly develop solid plans
All organisations are required to think ahead and plan their work to some degree, yet cost overruns and delays remain persistently common – highly mature firms could only average 67% delivery to budget and 63% of timely delivery for projects and initiatives. We understand the common pitfalls and can help leaders and teams avoid them.
We work with leaders and teams to:
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undertake collaborative planning for projects, departments and partnerships
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frame objectives and outcomes using proven techniques
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prioritise and focus in an engaging way
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agree the conduct and routines required
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assess prior performance and improve productivity
Deliver a Project
We can lead your projects through planning and delivery
Not every organisation has the resources and skills ready to go – we are often called upon to lead a challenging project through planning and delivery. PQ can provide a safe pair of hands to take a project through the lifecycle from idea to delivery or any part in between. We have experience in delivering major mergers or capital projects through to smaller scale strategic and business improvement undertakings.
We work for leaders and with teams to:
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Ensure project leadership is effective, be it PQ resources or your own
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Extrapolate objectives, a clear scope and agreed approach
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Setup work plans and team structures for success
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Drive delivery discipline and team performance
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Lead the use of proven methods in governance, risk management, project controls, commercials and reporting as relevant for your work
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Establish clear boundaries, delivery targets and operations performance targets
Assessing Project performance
We help leaders understand how to improve their work
Managing and delivering successfully is part art and part science – there is no silver bullet or standard method to guarantee success. Leaders need to ensure all factors are considered and none are fatal flaws. PQ helps you quickly understand the factors that are working or not towards achieving your business objectives, and crucially, what to do about them.
We work with leaders to:
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Provide independent reviews of your project readiness to proceed
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Undertake independent reviews of your project periodically through delivery to ensure it stays on the path to success
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Provide you with a health report and practical recommendations to remedy problem areas
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Conduct topic-specific deep dives, operational readiness or project risk assessments
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Understand what was learnt to avoid a repeat in future
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Coach and mentor project leaders and teams to embed delivery performance improvements
Recover a Project
We help leaders turnaround troubled projects
No one sets out to create a problem project, but it happens. As much as 11-21% of projects can be deemed an outright failure (PMI’s Pulse of the Profession, 2020). Before it gets too late we can help leaders and teams to reset their projects, adjust their performance and to turnaround delivery to improve the chances of success.
We work with leaders and teams to:
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Undertake a broad and efficient health check using our purpose-built diagnostics
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Ensure the objectives remain relevant and realistic
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Identify improvement actions that remedy areas requiring attention
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Reset plans and team commitment on targets that can be achieved
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Reset stakeholder expectations and begin re-establishing confidence
Implement Project Management Frameworks
We develop and implement investment and project management frameworks to match your business and project needs
Organisations need an effective and fit-for-purpose way of converting their business improvement or risk mitigation opportunities into tangible assets or transformations. The default approach is often overly prescriptive, long winded and not responsive to business needs. We help organisations to establish processes, structures and tools that balance risk, complexity and value so that management can focus on the things that matter without the excessive noise.
We work with organisations to:
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Establish investment processes and governance structures that align with corporate strategies and culture
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Define fit-for purpose deliverables that focus on realising value and mitigating the major risks
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Implement streamlined portfolio and project controls and reporting for transparent understanding of status, issues and next steps
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Identify and capture synergies from across projects to optimise portfolio value