Enabling Capabilities
Project and Programme
What we do
Project management and execution is a core consulting skill that delivers specific project outcomes within the time, cost and quality constraints of a project environment. We are experienced project managers armed with the appropriate tools, frameworks and methodologies to deliver
- Increased project productivity
- Positive stakeholder engagement
- Effective data management
- Enhanced reporting and
- Better risk management
Our project management office (PMO) assists you to translate your organisation’s strategy into a focused transformation journey, taking all constraints into account. We’ll work with your strategy and programme office, using a flexible, tried and tested maturity model to reduce costs, build projects quickly, and hold teams to consistently high standards. Excellent project management will get all work streams and projects functioning optimally, so that your organisation’s overall vision becomes a living reality.
How we do it
Our project management frameworks are derived from recognised methodologies such as Prince, PMBOK and Agile, which we integrate with other MAC disciplines and service offerings, and adapt to your needs and aspirations. This ensures a truly unique offering that delivers projects on basic project principles as well as on your aspirational needs and requirements.
Our programme managers are experienced strategy execution leaders with years of relevant industry experience. Our expertise enablesorganisations to navigate the many conflicts, interdependencies and prioritisations that are required to drive alignment and integration at a programme level. Our PMO offering creates a centralised operating structure, built on our vast knowledge of standard operating procedures, best practices, reporting frameworks and ways of working. The result is a synergy of practical knowledge that enables optimum journey management.
What we do
Project Portfolio Management (PPM) is a methodology and a process that assists organisations to create a project pipeline, and then select the right projects in an optimised sequence of delivery. PPM is quite different from project management – it’s about doing the right projects at the right time, building synergies between projects, and balancing change initiatives with maintenance of business as usual. Using well-defined methodologies and tools, our MAC consultants can assist portfolio managers and decision makers to invest resources for best value. We follow an efficient, stage gate process that enables harmony between the seemingly competing demands of compliance and strategic initiatives. Our goal is to ensure that all projects in the portfolio support the company’s strategic goals and business objectives.
How we do it
Our strength lies in our ability to integrate Project Portfolio Management solutions with our vast knowledge and expertise in strategy creation, interpretation and execution, along with our PMO knowledge and expertise. It is this combination of skills that will enable the realisation of your organisation’s strategic initiatives. We have the know-how to translate well-established principles into clear, manageable steps, and we build in an essential monitoring and report-back system that tracks value as the process is underway – an often neglected aspect of PPM.
Agile
What we do
MAC’s agile offering is designed to help organisations maximise their ROI from agile investments by linking Agile needs to measurable business benefits. Our approach is based on Agile principles, a systemic view, agile people change management, and a proactive ‘measure and manage’ approach to support the client’s agile journey. We leverage Agile delivery and learning accelerators (‘mission sprints’) to address prioritised pain points while embedding agility in the organisational DNA through culture and capability transformation.
How we do it
MAC’s agile offering helps organisations validate their case for Agile over existing alternatives for enhanced success. We help you be agile through a focus on mindsets, behaviours and core agility skills, and do agile through the use of fit-for-purpose practices and tools. We prioritise critical success factors for sustainable agile success, including leadership participation and people enablement. Our approach nurtures people’s intrinsic agility to accelerate agile progress and success with a culturally and organisationally relevant approach.
What we do
MAC’s Agile for Projects offering enhances clients’ project ROI by prioritising timely benefit realisation, value delivery and quality. This is achieved through a customer-centric approach, understanding ROI-influencing parameters, conscious resource and budget allocations, proactive risk management, adaptability, and the removal of delivery wastes. Our model also equips organisations to handle project complexity and ambiguity effectively while minimising the risk of costly failures.
How we do it
Our offering focuses on agility for project delivery and benefit realisation, while aligning with and complementing existing corporate governance frameworks. We employ a fit-for-purpose Agile approach that incorporates best practices and emerging trends for effective project management across all types of projects. We recognise the significant contribution of people to project success, and strive to foster collaboration, ownership, and innovative thinking in teams to overcome constraints and leverage opportunities.
Social Impact
What we do
Our social impact offering gives you a comprehensive roadmap for creating real social impact, both within the organisation and in your community of choice. We focus on corporate citizenship, the creation of sustainable change in local communities, the development of human capital and access to opportunities, and leadership and capability upliftment in communities.
Our approach is to frame the problem (examine the root issues and their causes), define desired outcomes (which includes your theory of change), re-design how you organise (so that staff do things differently) and execute your social impact efforts in an integrated way. The result is an ESG component that is collaborative, co-created, and deeply connected to partners, communities, and your own staff.
How we do it
All true social impact is ‘people first’. Our approach is premised on fundamental design principles in which people take centre stage: it is human-centred and robust, focusing on
- leadership
- tangible
- change
- collaborative
- co-creation
- generational
- impact and
- eco-system
- resilience
An abundance and growth mindset underpins our approach; with imagination and excellent leadership, social impact can be integrated into the business to elevate and enhance the entire operation. It need not be seen as a thing apart.
What we do
Within the context of our social impact strategy solution, we manage programmes to ensure that social impact projects are essentially human-centred, and have a lasting positive impact on people. Our ‘people’ methodologies are leveraged and integrated into traditional social programme management.
How we do it
Our social programme management is designed around a ‘people first’ approach. This aligns strongly to our leader-led people solutions.