Organisations need consultancy advice but cannot afford full-service fees. Solidus has a flexible and innovative approach to both services and charging.

Creative Pricing to Meet Client Needs

Solidus has an answer that makes consultancy advice much more affordable and more appropriately aligned with the clients’ real needs.Traditionally consultancies have taken over a piece of work for clients and provided full services using their own consultancy staff. In good times that has generated good fees, and profits, for consultancy firms. Clients have often had discomfort with that approach but in the current straitened circumstances can no longer afford it. The danger is that they will not get the advice they need.

It is Getting Simple Things Wrong that Lead to Project Failure

Five quick thoughts from a successful project and programme manager as a result of the Solidus paper on Project Health Checks.

• Most projects are sicker than people admit
• People only admit there are problems when there is no other alternative
• Most things that go wrong are the real basics
• Under-communication losing the users' confidence. Often shows when the client or boss is surprised by news from outside the project
• Paralysis by Analysis - people get buried in the detail and the big stuff gets forgotten

So there is more of a need for independent Project Health Checks than most Project Sponsors will believe; until it is too late. Most do not face up to the problem until they have to increase the budget and extend the timetable or reduce scope.

Do Not Get Caught Out - Do You Know the Truth?

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Timely Project Reviews Prevent Projects Becoming Expensive Problems

Many projects go through difficult times. An occasional health check or project review can prevent such projects turning nasty and requiring a full blown rescue plan. A small investment in a health check conducted by a Solidus “Critical Friend” will often save money over the life of a project.

It is an exercise that Solidus is well placed to inform as it has extensive experience of projects of all sizes and complexity. Even on large projects a health check is usually less than a week’s work with informal recommendations being made at the end of the first day. The Solidus approach majors on deliverability of the project rather than simple compliance with a project recording and reporting methodology; Solidus will however comment on the use of standards.

Already Need a Project Health Check?

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Solidus has provided top level management for some of the largest business change and IT projects in the UK and Europe. Running or reviewing projects with budgets of over £250million ($400million) is not unusual for Solidus; as are those of less than a £1million.

On behalf of clients of all sizes, Solidus directs and manages projects and programmes from proposal and business case through to delivery. Solidus has particular experience with complex stakeholdermanagement challenges and turning round difficult projects.Solidus undertakes Project Health Checks to catch problems early.

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