Justin Tuohy Exemplar House

Exemplar House

The Exemplar House (iPM) core competency is in the development and implementation of international best practice for the advancement of sustainable enterprise through the effective delivery of projects, programs and portfolio’s and efficient management of all critical resources. Clients span a broad but targeted spectrum as shown in the following diagram.

iPM Business Sectors 3How products, services and support structures are integrated to achieve a successful customer outcome is demonstrated by the following example:

What we do example2It is essential to build a clear picture of the Client’s organisation and to determine its position on a maturity scale with respect to Best Practice, which is undertaken using Maturity Profiling as part of the Profiling Systems and Structures change programme. The outcomes will provide the ‘Baseline’ against which the success of subsequent phases will be measured. Consequently, it is essential that iPM spends adequate time with senior management, the Project Teams and key line managers to assess what work has already been done so that we can be certain that sound foundations are established.

iPM also provides solutions which facilitate the dynamic monitoring and control of portfolios. The sophistication of these tools is dependent upon the organisational requirements ranging from a customised set of templates to a fully integrated enterprise model i.e., Rowan™, a proprietary product. Such tools enable clients to both measure the effectiveness and appropriateness of its actions along with identifying the implications of change at macro and micro levels.

Exemplar House (iPM) is dedicated to the facilitation of organisational reform and supporting all aspects of change programmes. iPM has researched, designed, authored and published many applied programmes for specific industries in order to address their specific needs. Once our clients embrace the culture of change, we are there to support their needs, beyond the scope of the initial change programme through our communities of practice fora which we facilitate on our website.

In summary, the introduction of such programmes is practiced through

  1. The provision of products and services
  2. The delivery of customised training to their practitioners
  3. The integration of processes and procedures with an organisation’s culture and
  4. The implementation of organisational support units, e.g., Project Support Offices [PSO], and Shared Service Offices [SSO], which facilitate the development of higher levels of process maturity through the centralisation of expertise and organisational assets.
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Blending™ | Key to Portfolio Selection

Blending™ is a software database system designed by Exemplar House (iPM) for use with all project types to facilitate an organisation / business unit to determine the most appropriate selection of projects that make up the portfolio to enable delivery of the strategic plan.

Whilst the planning horizon is generally the total length of time to implement the strategic plan, decision horizons are typically coincident with the fiscal or business planning cycle. See Hopscotch™ for further details. The primary advantage of the database system is the centralisation of critical data, ability to constantly monitor and update, which results in a knowledge repository for future portfolio decisions.

The Blending™ process is a core instrument of best practice portfolio management and has been recognised within many of the guidance documents as critical to enterprise success. As Blending™ is fundamental to the effective delivery of a strategic plan, it includes the selection and resourcing of portfolio’s of projects, which are continually reviewed at decision horizon points, incorporating the management of both opportunities and threats arising from business uncertainty.

The parameters associated with Project selection are unique to any organisation / business unit, therefore we customise the product to suit customer needs in each case.

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Hopscotch™ | Delivery System for Strategic Plan Implementation

Hopscotch ServiceHopscotch™ is a process we developed at iPM, suitable for application in medium-sized to large organisations, to conceptualize the necessary decision-making agility in the selection and de-selection of projects within a current portfolio. It is a truism that the survival and prosperity of organisations is dependent upon their ability to adapt to change.

The Hopscotch™ process maintains focus on achieving the strategic plan set out by the organisation. The application of this approach reflects the organisation’s need for control, the costs associated with change and its risk tolerance.

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Enterprise Management | Project Based Approach

The Exemplar House (iPM) philosophy is underpinned by the pursuit of ‘best’ practice and not the adoption of ‘adequate’ practices. Management by projects is the fundamental building block, which enables organisations to embrace the power of project management across many disparate disciplines for the benefit of the organisation as a whole. A vision provides a target for an organisation to aspire to over a defined period of time. A strategic plan provides structure to the vision in terms of deliverables and objectives. Each strategic initiative in a strategic plan can be represented by a collection (Portfolio) of projects, thus the importance of projects. All of these elements are important and very connected. The realisation of the strategic plan can be facilitated by our Hopscotch™ and Blending™ best practices.

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