The Enterprise Change Office

Building The Capability To Deliver Organisational Change

When achieving strategic objectives requires organisational change, success depends upon the organisational capability needed to govern, coordinate, and sustain that change across the enterprise.

This website presents a strategy-led framework for understanding organisational change. It examines the relationships between strategy, organisational change, the Enterprise System, Operational Continuity, and Governance Logic, and distinguishes between First-Order and Second-Order Organisational Change. It argues that successful organisational change depends upon integrating multiple complementary practice areas within a coherent enterprise capability.

An Enterprise Change Office is presented as one way of organising that capability. It provides an organisational model through which the complementary practice areas required to support organisational change can be integrated within a single enterprise capability.

The webpages below introduce the concepts underpinning this framework, beginning with “What Is Organisational Change?” Each subsequent webpage explores one aspect of the framework in greater depth and explains how the concepts fit together.

If your organisation is considering how to strengthen its organisational change capability, evolve an existing PMO, or determine whether an Enterprise Change Office is appropriate, the Services Offered page explains how I can help. It describes how I work alongside organisations to strengthen the governance, organisational capability, and organisational arrangements needed to support successful organisational change.

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Ecosystem

The Office of Government Commerce And P3O®

The Office of Government Commerce (OGC) was a UK government body established in 2000 to promote efficiency and best practices in public sector procurement, project management, and programme management. One of its significant contributions was the development of the P3O® (Portfolio, Programme, and Project Offices) framework, first published in 2008. This framework provides principles and guidance on designing and operating effective support structures for delivering change. P3O® was created in response to the growing need for organisations to align their strategies with execution and to standardise the roles of PMOs across different contexts.

In 2014, the stewardship of the OGC’s best practice portfolio was transferred to AXELOS, a joint venture between the UK Cabinet Office and Capita. AXELOS continues to maintain and publish the official P3O® guidance, with the most recent version being “Portfolio, Programme and Project Offices: P3O® Guidance” (AXELOS, 2013).

The guidance outlines a hierarchy of structures, which is summarised in Exhibit 1. It also notes that “projects” can stand alone and do not need to be part of a “programme”.

Exhibit 1: P30® Hierarchy