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The fundamental reason for a programme is to realise benefits through change, however many programmes continue to initiate considerable change without achieving any of the desired benefits. To combat this, the active identification, monitoring and measurement of benefits are now mandatory aspects of Managing Successful Programmes (MSP) within the Government sector.
Koios practitioners use systems-based methods to identify the impact of potential management decisions on achieving desired benefits. External stakeholders are engaged on the basis of achieving common goals and minimising potential conflict. The Koios approach is a defensible and auditable process that increases the effectiveness of programme management activity. It reduces the effort wasted on achieving outcomes that do not contribute to the desired benefits and it reduces conflicting activity within other programmes.
Programme managers who fail to actively manage benefits in this way are unlikely to deliver a successful programme and will be unable to demonstrate a coherent rationale to the changes that they initiated.