Key features and benefits:
- Visioning & definition - including research and consultation; exploring the possibilities before identifying a vision that is achievable within a realistic timeframe
- Strategic planning - SWOT, PEST & EPISTLE analyses, and setting objectives that are SMART
- Business planning - making the business case and linking it to strategic policy requirements and the proven market need or failure
- Financial planning - identifying and securing funding, modelling and profiling detailed, realistic expenditure and income forecasts
- Delivery planning - full life cycle planning, workplan development, resource allocation, risk assessment, and output profiling interlinked with financial forecasts
- Monitoring & evaluation planning - establishing the monitoring framework and capturing baseline evidence
- Sustainability/Succession planning and Exit Strategies - built in to the project plan or evolved during delivery