Project recovery
GETTING PROJECTS BACK ON TRACK AND SUCCESSFULLY IMPLEMENTED
Complex projects regularly fail to go to plan, leading to significant delays and cost blow-outs. Whilst existing teams can sometimes successfully turn these projects around, often a new or extended leadership capability is needed to take stock of the situation; create a realistic approach and plan, and; execute on the plan to completion. This typically includes a focus on re-engaging with stakeholders, ensuring the correct governance structure and processes are in place for quick decision-making and bringing the necessary skills to the team to get the project back on track and deliver the expected outcomes.
Whilst a broad range of factors can cause projects to go off-track or stall, in our experience, common causes tend to be centred on one or more of the following:
Poor scope management
Ineffective governance
Project leadership/team lack the experience/maturity for project complexity
Insufficient involvement of stakeholders with appropriate authority and/or subject matter expertise
Inadequate focus on change impacts and change management activities, including communication.
Our experienced program managers, change practitioners and analysts have been on the ‘front-line’ in delivering complex projects for many years, with our senior consultants regularly brought in to failed projects to help get them back on track and successfully implemented.
CLIENT SPOTLIGHT
Project recovery at a major university
Mozaic were engaged by the university to turn around a failing program of work to deliver a critical new research platform and related projects. Mozaic mobilised a small team that undertook a swift project re-set, and subsequently led the successful delivery of the program, including all technical components and a substantial change management program to the Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Research for the use of all researchers, students and faculty at the university.
