- Strategic planning
- Value-driven business and IT strategic planning – moving beyond aligning business and IT planning to integrating them
- Value Management
- Supporting the definition and Implementation of a governance framework and supporting processes to ensure the effective management and realization of value
- Value Assessment
- Reviewing current performance, governance and management processes, and recommending actions to improve the realization of value
- Program Assessment
- Reviewing programs for clarity of outcomes, comprehensiveness of scope, validity of assumptions, risk, and management effectiveness, and recommending necessary actions
- Change Management
- Supporting the development and execution of change management plans to ensure clarity, communication, understanding, acceptance and successful implementation of organizational change programs
- IT Effectiveness Assessment
- Reviewing the IT organization, and its processes, people and technology to assess their capability and capacity to support the organization’s business objectives, and recommending necessary actions
- Executive briefings
- Increasing awareness and understanding around the issue of value from IT investments, or overall enterprise value, and of approaches to increase value
- Workshop facilitation
- Facilitating shared understanding of issues, building consensus on the way forward and developing commitment to action plans
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John Thorp
John Thorp is an internationally recognized leader in the field of value and benefits management. A management consultant with close to 50 years' experience covering all aspects of the information management field, including technical, management and executive positions, a frequent speaker, and author of The Information Paradox, John's focus is on realizing the benefits of information technology-enabled change. A highly effective strategist, communicator and facilitator, he has led many assignments in strategic planning, organizational change, and value management.
We keep coming back to the core Value Management processes and approaches that we built with you all those years ago. It's still the case that there is nothing better out there
Manager, European Financial Services CompanyThe work we did together on positioning the role of IT gave me the greatest satisfaction of my career
Executive VP, Canadian Resource Company (NOT an IT Executive)As a result of your work, our organisation now has a culture of value, which guides all our decisions
Executive, Australian Financial Services OrganizationYour work helped us establish the foundation for where we are today - we could not have done it without you
Manager, Canadian Provincial MinistryJohn provided a level of knowledge and insight that can only be compared with the best-known experts in our profession. He has unselfishly provided his own values and beliefs in a manner that has supported the development of my understanding, and the development of a personal vision that has served me and our company well
Director, U.S. Aerospace Company