- 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 over 45 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.