What exactly IS the scope?

Are you a Head of Finance or Operations looking to change the systems and processes in your professional services firm?

As I was reminded when discussing budgets and the timelines, one of the issues with many projects is the overall scope has not been fully agreed, and so the budgets and timelines are only ever an estimate, impossible to manage and control. Are you frustrated when doing your best to work out the scope of the changes and agree them with all the key people in the business?

• Is the thought of asking all the key people for their thoughts daunting?
• Are you dreading having to deal with each head of department and their "differences"?
• Do the support department heads need something different to the fee-earning department heads?
• Does the increasingly flexible, virtual and varied locations of people make it harder to enforce consistent processes and systems across the business, let alone figuring out how to gather all their views in the first place?

With over a decade's experience working with flexible, virtual and geographically-spread teams, managing face-to-face, conference call and online workshops and meetings, I can help you bring the groups together and facilitate the workshops to answer your questions. We then use that information to help you decide on the scope of the changes you want to bring in, whether that is to improve the way the current systems and processes work, upgrade IT systems to newer versions or bring in new systems and processes. Then we build a plan.

If you would like a discussion on how I could help you scope a business change, please get in touch, message me on here or contact me on [email protected] or 07971 400653

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