Effective Business Requirements by 'BusReq'
Welcome to the 1,588 Subscribers to Interim Times. Thank you for the amazing response to last weeks Webinar 'Interim Market Report 2024 with Mark Saywell and Mark Vincent it has gone out across all Newsletters and I am delighted so many people reported back how insightful they found it.
For those of you who read Edition 1 of Interim Times you know that I go to Market directly and to do this I have established as wide a presence as possible. From an Interim perspective I would encourage you all to have more than one string to your bow in the current Climate.
To this end today I want to show you what an Interim can achieve and use this Edition to launch my latest Service called 'BusReq'. If you have the time I would like to walk you through how I approached this in effort to show you how you can do something similar.
Check out the Website at Effective Business Requirements
As readers of my other Newsletters know I devour Books and this year I was participating in an online MBA program which is rather unique in its approach insofar as it focusses extensively on Books. One of the Books I read which was way outside my Finance discipline was about how to identify a need.
In a nutshell you identify the root cause of a major problem and you develop a Solution to meet the one with the widest impact. This is how BusReq was developed. I am an Interim Consultant in the Finance Transformation space and I could argue that this is a narrow field, so I set out to find a factor common to all Projects, regardless of discipline, which would be totally broad Church.
Last year I had Mark Vincent speak at my Event, Success Leaves Clues, at Old Trafford. On Sunday as I sat in the exact same space to watch Utd play Spurs I knew I had come full circle and his speech that day hit home. Mark pointed out that >95% of major Change programs are delivered either late or over budget. The full Speech is on my Website.
Remember, what I advised you if you are an Interim, establish a constant online presence via a Website, that works for you 24/7. All my material and Service Offerings can be found here at
If practically every Program is delivered late or over budget, one or the other, then what is the primary driver of this? In my opinion, based on my own experience, that root cause is defining ineffective Business Requirements.
This area is often skimmed over with too light a touch or in many cases performed with internal resources who may be experienced, by they are not 'experienced' in the art of defining Effective Business Requirements.
So I got together with my fellow Interim Mark Saywell and we pooled our experience and knowledge to develop an Effective Business Requirements Solution to cover the critical juncture between the Business and its Business Systems.
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Why is this so important? Because all major Change Programs have a People and Systems component and the two are not born of the same mentality. There is a need to cover all bases from an Organisation Design perspective in conjunction with your Business Systems impact. You must gather the facts and look at both together via one lens which is where our Question Accelerators and Incubators really come into their own.
Today BusReq is launched and the Website, Desktop and Mobile versions, are live. By the end of today 10K people will receive a direct communication that this Service is available. I am not going into more details here. If you are starting a Change Program reach out for our support and let BusReq do the heavy lifting.
Interims be the best!
Best Regards,