How healthy is your business-critical program?

A successful healthcheck is one that is based on hard evidence.

In the world of complex program management, there’s still far too much guesswork and speculation involved.

If you’re a Program Sponsor or even a vested Stakeholder can you honestly say you have complete visibility of what is going on in your program?

You’ll likely get status reports from your team that give you a view of the progress of the program – but how do you know if your program is hiding silent symptoms that could put it at risk?

Mentor offer a comprehensive suite of services that combine years of experience with the latest AI technology to help you quickly determine the true status of your program.

Giving you deeper understanding of your program’s health – helping to reduce the risk of failure and maximise the probability of program success.

Critical to any program success is having the knowledge, insight and competence to stamp out potential program issues – before they happen. Often, risks are hard to see and anticipate.

Our Solutions

We have three solutions designed to give you an objective assessment of your program. Each provides clarity on the health of your program – identifying risks to be unblocked and opportunities to exploit. All are based on, The MentorBlueprint, our proven program execution methodology.

Program Assurance and Risk Assessment

You want to make sure your program is set up correctly from the start and potential risks are managed.

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Program Pulse Check

Your program execution is underway but you want to make sure its on the right track by checking it’s status on a regular basis.

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Program recovery

Your executive team has lost confidence in the program delivery team – the program is delayed and over budget.

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The Mentor Execution Index – next-generation program assurance tool

Discover how actionable insights from your program team can help you make informed decisions fast and plan confidently for program delivery – watch the video.

When it comes to program execution, the stakes are high. We can help you minimise the risk of failure.

We combine tried and tested methods of 1:2:1 interviews and a deep-dive review of program documents, with an online survey of your program team, customers and suppliers using The Mentor Execution Index.

The Mentor Execution Index is an AI-driven program assurance tool that gives you an x-ray of your program.

Showing you what’s happening, why it happened and what will happen next.

The result?

Program teams can take critical actions to improve program delivery.

4 easy steps to program execution success

Follow our approach and we’ll guarantee your results.

2 weeks

01

Discover

Survey, review

  • Transparent, challenging, and focused ‘deep dive’ approach based on the MentorBlueprint
  • 1:2:1 interview sessions with the senior program team
  • Survey wider program team and suppliers using the Mentor Execution Index 
  • In-depth review of the program documents, for example, budgets, high-level financials, program plan, program controls, governance and communications

1 week

02

Analyse

Interpret data, diagnose

  • Expert interpretation of data collected from your team, combined with the deep learning and dashboard results from the Mentor Execution Index
  • Identifies the scale of potential challenges, highlighting areas for improvement, acceleration, and strengthening of existing processes
  • Early identification of risks and required actions to reduce those risks

1 week

3

Recommend

Right solution, right approach

  • Delivery of final recommendations and setting out the actions essential to deliver the business case
  • Comprehensive solutions are drawn from program management expertise
  • Clearly defined strategic direction with a roadmap of initiatives to implement your strategy

1 week

4

Act

Detailed plan, execute

  • Program re-focussed and adjusted to meet strategic needs and deliver benefits
  • Wider organisation re-engaged with the program – responsibilities clearly understood
  • A partner with industry technical expertise and strong execution skills, working with you to get things done

Give your program the best start. Assess its chances of success using the Mentor Healthcheck.

Benefiting from an independent program healthcheck

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Speed

Fast, cost effective, broad and deep program insight

Detailed and immediately actionable execution/recovery plan

Significantly reduced late-stage surprises

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Efficiency

Successful program delivery, driven by focussed recommendations

Build a program-ready organisation quickly, using data and feedback collected from across the organisation

Fast and better-informed decision-making

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Certainty

Achieve results using qualitative and quantitative data

Drive successful program delivery based on insight that can’t be challenged

Early identification of program-critical risks and issues

Mentor is a great partner. They get to understand what it is you are looking to achieve; bring great substance, great people, great knowledge. They help you to get to the other side.

Simon Beresford-Wylie, Former Arqiva CEO

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