understanding top® thinking and why it increases your projects' roi

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An introduction to TOP® Thinking

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Several principles, frameworks, unorthodox approaches and engineered thinking™ underpin

the TOP strategy execution and value delivery approach —as we explain


is a simplified business-driven strategy execution and value delivery approach

Designed by business people for business people

it consists of complete, integrated, practical and proven tools, techniques and processes


1 “A business-driven strategy execution

and value delivery approach”

1.1 Strategy is execution

1.2 Strategy execution effectiveness drives value — EBIT and share price

1.3 ’ROI’ is not a business case measure but a business executive accountability


2 “Designed by business people for business people”

2.1 Designed for use by board members, executives, business management and staff

2.2 Designed to be easily understood, adopted and used

2.3 Designed to take people through a holistic, Engineered Thinking™ process to achieve the results they really want


3 “Complete, integrated, practical and proven

tools, techniques and processes”

3.1 Complete - from corporate planning to business benefits realization

3.2 Integrates Strategy to Business to Projects/Programs to Results into BAU

3.3 Practical, proven, recognized and awarded over 20 years

!!iAwards “ Outstanding Product

Innovation”!


1.1 “Strategy is execution”

There are only two ways to execute strategy: 1 Continued and improved business as usual 2 Changed business as usual

TOP equips organizations to execute their strategy through changing business as usual


‘Execution’ is about delivering, not just doing

It is about delivering a new operating business-as-usual and its benefits, not just some ‘capability’

It is about delivering measurable business results, not just ‘project deliverables’

1.2 “Strategy execution effectiveness drives value EBIT and share price”


Your organization’s ‘capability to execute’ and deliver business returns can be measured

Your ‘capability to execute’ determines the business results and returns (ROI) you can achieve consistently

1.3 “‘ROI’ is not a business case measure

but a business executive accountability”

TOP is specifically designed to measure and then fix your capability by filling the gaps and deficiencies that are compromising your ROI


2.1 “Designed for use by board members, executives,

business management and staff”

Projects are business initiatives to be led, directed and controlled by the business

Currently, the business may be ‘involved’ but is not equipped to lead

TOP equips boards, executives and staff to lead, by knowing what to do, when, why and how


2.2 “Designed to be easily understood, adopted and used”

TOP is thought through from the basics and simplified to make it easy to understand

It can be adopted piecemeal - you don’t need to ‘boil the ocean’ to start

It produces immediate results in hours and days, not months or years


2.3 “Designed to take people through a holistic,

Engineered Thinking™ process”

TOP equips people to think - in clear, specific, measurable terms

TOP provides progressive engineered thinking processes to generate greater levels of detail while retaining the ‘big picture’

TOP brings a different way of thinking - “Engineered common sense”

Engineered Thinking™ is a trademark of Totally Optimized Projects


3.1 “Complete - from corporate planning to

business benefits realization”

Translates Corporate Plans to Portfolios to Projects to measured business Performance

Focuses on optimizing Business Value Delivery - the real reason you invest in projects

Changes the measure of success from project completion to benefits realization


3.2 “Integrates Strategy to Business to Projects/Programs

to Results into BAU”

Change projects are integral to how you achieve your business results - and need to be managed as part of normal business

TOP joins the dots and aligns all investments to the business strategy, imperatives and plans

TOP makes strategy execution visible, trackable and measurable


3.3 “Practical, proven, recognized and awarded over 20 years”

Used and proven in multiple industries and on multiple types of projects

Scaleable from minor changes to major transformation programs

Simplified but not simplistic - rigorous without redundancy

“Three to five years ahead of the competition” Professor James McKinney, Harvard

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