Your business case spells out your project’s value proposition — what your project will deliver in return for the funds, resources and commitment provided by your organization.

Wouldn’t it be a great idea if you actually delivered these benefits too?

Benefits realization management builds on project delivery to ensure the benefits are known, targeted, assigned and realized. And its not that difficult if you set your project up right.

If you haven’t already you need to define your ‘desired business outcomes’ and identify your benefits so that you can then plan to achieve them — see How to define your ‘desired business outcomes’ and How to identify your project’s benefits

To enable you deliver your benefits in full we have the following useful guides

1. How to deliver your project’s benefits
   The steps over and above project delivery to ensure that the business is focused on and able to deliver the benefits even after the end of the project, and that the realization of these benefits can be tracked and monitored. More information
   
   
2. How to plan change
   Simple but highly effective approach to change planning so that you can identify, structure and plan the changes requires to deliver the benefits. Too many benefits are ‘lost’ because the business does not know how to realize them. This Guide takes you through the process of defining your ‘Benefits Delivery Plans’ as a joint project/business team exercise. More information
   
   
3. Understanding Benefits
   A simple but comprehensive guide to benefits, their nature and dynamics so that you understand ‘the beast’ you are dealing with. More information