Parallel sessions
Benefits
This session explores some of the key themes linked to the governance, reporting and realisation of project benefits.
Benefits are the principal reason that organisations seek to enact change and the identification, definition, planning, tracking and realisation of benefits are central to project success. However, our research into cross-national benefits management (BM) in Australia, Canada, the UK and the USA revealed considerable variation in inter and intragovernmental BM and a deterioration in focus as projects progress through approval gates to close-out. Furthermore, our study also revealed the prominence of political interest, leadership buy-in, culture and transparent reporting mechanisms. This session explores these themes alongside our latest research on the importance of benefits governance.
Chairs: Richard Kirkham, Reader in Civil Engineering, University of Manchester and Andrew Edkins, Professor of the Management of Complex projects, The Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction, UCL will be joined by academics Sarah Coleman and Phoebe Young and other contributors.