Transformation Office

Also known as SRO (Strategy Realization Office) or EPMO (Enterprise Project Management Office), this role is crucial for driving business agility and strategic outcomes by ensuring that all work is aligned with business strategy. It is the function that delivers Strategic Portfolio Management, while connecting top-down strategy execution with the working teams delivering throughout the organization.

KEY CHALLENGES:

• Flawed strategic approaches and a lack of strategic roadmaps. When organizations cling to outdated annual planning processes, and when they fail to drive investments directly from strategy, the wrong projects are selected and funding, making it impossible to deliver effective transformation before work even starts. Furthermore, a lack of visibility into the entire portfolio of organizational assets – business and strategic, digital, people, etc. makes it hard to optimize performance and deliver optimal outcomes.

• An inability to deliver work across the tri-modal reality. Work today is delivered using traditional, Agile and ad hoc approaches, and teams must be able to select the most effective and efficient approach for each initiative. If organizations lack the tool to manage work and track information across all those approaches and methods, they will not be able to make the best decisions quickly, impacting performance.

• Difficulty adapting and adjusting. Every aspect of an organization is continuously evolving – operating environments shift with emerging technologies, shifting customer expectations and the actions of competitors. Internal performance varies from plan during delivery. Organizations must be able to analyze and model adjustments to keep strategic delivery aligned with outcomes, and they must do so quickly, executing change decisively and with minimal disruption.