How can Focus Group Help?

Focus group can address your organisation and project needs in any or all of the following areas:

Capital Investment Strategy and Methodology
By working with you to review your strategy, we can help you identify and evaluate your core business in order to create the basis for an investment programme which best meets your organisation’s needs, balancing business objectives against funding, capabilities and risks.

Project Selection and Programme Management
Choosing the right capital investment projects is just as important as managing your projects right. We can provide experience and tools to develop your own project selection criteria and process, and then help you through the creation and management of a capital investment programme.

Project Management
Focus Group offers contracted resource for project selection, programme management, project initiation, project management and project recovery.

Project Management Training
Focus Group offers targeted project management training and mentoring for project managers and even non-project managers within an organisation. This training can be delivered as standard courses across a variety of topics in various formats or as in-house courses customised to your business, organisation and needs.

Project Recovery
Sometimes, for a variety of reasons, projects reach a crisis point. Focus Group can quickly step in to stabilise the situation, analyse the status and recommend the best course of action, whether it is to continue, modify or terminate the project, and then implement the selected course of action.

Project Audit and Review
Review or audit of projects in progress or completed. Review will be customised to the situation but may include project selection and initiation, organisational structures and support for projects, project management and project outcomes, assessment of delivered benefits against expected benefits, recommendations and action plan for future projects. Reviews will benchmark against industry best practice.

Organisational Capability Analysis
The success of your projects, your capital investment programme and ultimately your business will be dependent upon the maturity and capability of your organisation in relation to projects. We can analyse your organisation and benchmark it in terms of its current state. This will identify areas where the organisation should focus in order to improve its capabilities.

Executive Advice, Mentoring and Education
Often individual or groups of managers require personal development or targeted mentoring in particular aspects of their role, particularly when taking up new or changed roles. These needs are best served by customised workshops personalised mentoring and guidance.

Focus Group will provide custom workshops or short courses for organisation management, and will also provide one-to-one mentoring for managers who would benefit from this form of personal development. Topics may include Project Management, the roles and responsibilities of senior managers in project ownership and governance and other general management issues.

Contract Executive
Unexpected illness or loss of a key executive, unforeseen problems or workload, urgent need for change or situation recovery - There are times when you need an experienced executive who can step into a role and quickly deliver results. Focus Group is able to undertake short term executive level contracts for executive mentoring, special projects, crisis recovery, business change, business establishment or overload balancing.