STRATEGY IMPLEMENTATION SOLUTIONS

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Smelevate ® - an overview

Many organizations are adept in Strategy Formulation- but fail during its implementation. A primary reason for this gap is that organisations fail to translate strategy into appropriate change initiatives, as in a Project portfolio and implement it right to realize strategic objectives.

We in s3mzen use our proprietary model smelevate®  - to assist clients in their strategy implementation, with focus on project portfolio management across people, process and technology dimensions., alongwith Organizational Change Management.
 

The smelevate®  model consists of Three broad phases, broadly sequential in nature, but with appropriate feedback loops.

 

1. Discern: Herein, we understand the Organizational strategy, its vision and mission and  strategic goals. We also assess the Value systems and Culture of the organization, current business performance levels, value gaps, issues and constraints faced and the expectations from Senior Management. (We typically take on from the high level strategic goals that have already been set ).
 

2. Design: In this phase, we work with Senior Management in decomposing the overall Value gap, into mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive value streams, with discrete targets. These value streams can form the basis of strategic themes, if the organization is using Balanced Scorecard or similar approach. Involvement from Business Leaders is ensured so that their Buy-in for the set targets gets endorsed. Stakeholder engagement and Facilitation are key techniques used during this phase.  If an organization has already determined their  value streams, we work on from there to derive the project portfolio.
Thereafter, we determine the strategic initiatives (projects and programs) to be taken up for each of the Value streams, across perspectives. These perspectives can cover work to be done across processes, business organization structure, technology interventions, Information needs, Knowledge Management and Culture change requirements.
Existing initiatives are taken into account - to interface with the proposed change initiatives, as needed. The overall Project Portfolio (with Sub-portfolios if need be) - gets created during this critical phase. It needs to be noted that the defining the portfolio will take into account the existing Project Portfolio Management maturity, extent of support provided by the Enterprise Project Management Office (EPMO), business imperatives and funding/ resource constraints - and its definition can involve multiple iterations.

 

3. Deliver: In this phase, the actual change initiatives (projects and programs) get launched. Proprietary project management models, alongwith industry standard methodologies and approaches ( like Agile) can be used to manage these initiatives, Extensive Business Involvement is a major differentiator, to enhance the business ownership of the developed solutions.

Programs are directed and monitored, issues and risks are managed, resources are assigned and deliverables accepted by the Business, transitioning into Operations. Governance, Testing and Organizational change Management are important aspects during this phase. Outcomes and Benefits are realized and managed, transforming the concerned business unit operations. 

Mid-course corrections are considered due to change in strategic priorities, resource availability other constraints. The overall value realized by the organization by execution of the strategic portfolio initiatives is kept under review. Project Portfolio Management maturity gets enhanced. Knowledge databases are maintained for the organization its leverage on its past learnings. The benefits and value accrued are tracked, which can feed into the next iteration commencing with Discern phase.
 

Smelevate®  model can be scaled depending on the organizational requirements and customized to suit client requirements. 

Our team consists of experienced consultants with diverse backgrounds in various industries. We combine our expertise to deliver innovative solutions to our clients.