Project Implementation Assurance (PIA)

Today’s business environment is continually changing. Markets are no longer constrained by geographic or legal boundaries, enabling companies to expand globally and to collaborate within and across organisations. In this new environment, agility has emerged as a key driver for enhancing shareholder value and ensuring sustainability.

To achieve agility, organisations are engaged in complex initiatives that are expected to efficiently deliver strategic and tactical business benefits to multiple stakeholders without compromising the integrity of the existing environment or violating compliance requirements.

These factors, along with the greater demand for accountability and transparency in the market have raised the stakes for project success.

Successful delivery of strategic initiatives can significantly impact an organisation’s efficiency, reputation and market value.

If you need:

• Confidence that business benefits will be appropriately identified and realised.
• Confidence that your projects will be completed on-time, on budget and to the required quality.
• Assistance in identifying how you can enhance your internal control environment to more effectively and efficiently meet your operational, regulatory and financial reporting requirements.

Then PwC can help you

We can assist your organisation in performing a Project Implementation assessment to obtain comfort over:

• Project Comfort – comfort that project objectives were achieved, including project budget, project schedule status and overall success
• Controls Comfort – comfort that control structure within the system is sufficient to achieve relevant financial, operational and/or compliance objectives and
• Business Comfort – comfort that structures are in place to track benefits realisation and/or solutions are realising expected benefits.

PIA can be used as an evaluation process that will provide management with a mechanism to confirm that the business and technology solution goals were achieved, validate that the benefits were realised and maintain the overall effectiveness of the solution.

PwC can assist you understand the key outcomes that will determine project success and can help you identify risks that may prevent these outcomes from being achieved.

Our PIA approach provides tangible value to your project and organisation, including:

• A clear view of the expectations of the various project stakeholders and opportunities to create efficiencies in the project, benefit and control activities based on alignment with stakeholder expectations.
• A unique and independent perspective on relevant risks at each phase in your project, presenting an understandable view of the road blocks that could potentially prevent you from achieving project success.
• Continuous feedback to project sponsors and project managers enabling them to proactively identify and address potential implementation risks before they significantly impact the company.
• Transfer of knowledge, enhancing your organisation’s capabilities to successfully deliver future projects.