Strategic Project Management

An informed and comprehensive strategy is the foundation of any successful construction project, international roll-out, team sourcing exercise or other delivery programme. Sound advice allows our clients to take advantage of emerging business opportunities and sidestep challenges before they appear. A sound strategy will keep commercial, technical, compliance and environmental issues in alignment rather than in conflict. No two projects are identical, but the foundation of our approach to providing strategic project management consultancy is consistency, based on seamless integration with our client's in-house team and the diligent application of our international experience and know-how.

Sample strategic commission

Global telecommunications company

The Client: A merger between two giant global telecommunications companies resulted in our client's organisation acquiring a real estate portfolio of 18.5million sq m comprising 1,000 properties located in 110 countries. A high level concept had been outlined by the Board to consolidate the portfolio to save approximately €1.5billion per annum and this would be achieved by reducing the real estate portfolio by 3million sq m over a period of 4 years. This period was reduced from 4 years to 12 months in order to realise the savings early.

The Commission: sineQN were awarded the strategic project management commission to develop the strategy. We were awarded a further commission to implement our proposals to complete the planning of the global programme.

Planning: sineQN interfaced with the client's 7 global real estate managers to develop and complete the planning in conjunction with the country level business managers. This required us to understand our client's business and organisational structure, followed by detailed engagement across two very different cultures.

Global Delivery Structure: As our client did not have an in-house project management capability sineQN reviewed the global real estate organisation structure and designed a programme management delivery structure to overlay and interface with the existing structure. sineQN then resourced the new structure via several international vendors providing project management and cost control.

Ongoing Input: After on-boarding the PMO (project management organisation) sineQN were retained as an extension to the client's team in a risk management role. Our remit is to monitor and, where necessary, to influence a successful delivery.

Added Value from sineQN: The PMO structure and team that sineQN formed is now the preferred project delivery method for our client and is being used to deliver all business growth projects as well as the original consolidation programme.