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Planning and execution support for initiatives that need an owner, a calendar and someone chasing the dependencies.
Practice · for both
Portfolio & Project Management
Planning, partnerships, events and reporting that keep initiatives on track.
Services in this practice
What we deliver
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Building and running corporate partnerships that produce measurable activity rather than a signing photograph.
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End-to-end delivery of job fairs, industry conclaves, hiring drives, launches and campaign activations.
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Metric definition, dashboards and review reporting so decisions rest on numbers rather than impressions.
Process
How the work runs
The same four stages apply across every practice, adapted to the mandate.
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Understand
A working session on what you actually need — the role, the mandate or the outcome. We put the brief in writing and you sign it off before work starts.
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Plan
A scoped plan with owners, timelines and the numbers we will report against. If the brief is unrealistic on budget, market or timeline, we say so here.
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Execute
Delivery against the plan, with a weekly written update whether or not there is good news. Silence is not a status report.
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Review
Results measured against what we agreed at the start, with an honest read on what worked, what did not, and what we would change next cycle.
FAQ
Portfolio & Project Management — questions
Why hire this out instead of using our own manager?
Usually because the person who would do it already has a full-time job. Project management fails most often when it is somebody's fifth priority — the plan exists but nobody chases it. If you have a dedicated programme manager, you probably do not need us.
Do you have authority over our teams?
No, and we would not want it. We own the plan, the tracking and the escalation; decision rights stay with you. What we do insist on is a named owner per workstream and an agreed escalation path, in writing, before we start.
We already have MoUs that produced nothing. Can that be fixed?
Sometimes. The usual causes are no named owner, no activity calendar, and no review date — all fixable if the partner still sees value. Where they do not, the honest answer is to close it out rather than keep it on a website as decoration.
What makes a partnership agreement actually work?
Named activities with numbers and dates, an owner on each side, and a review date. An agreement that says the parties will 'explore opportunities for collaboration' commits nobody to anything.
How far in advance should we plan an event?
Four to eight weeks for a focused session or hiring drive. Ten to twelve weeks for a job fair or conclave, because recruiter and speaker calendars are set that far ahead and confirmations drive everything else.
What usually goes wrong?
Attendance. Registration numbers are not attendance numbers — a thirty to forty percent drop-off between registration and arrival is normal without reminder sequences, which is why the invitation campaign matters more than the stage.
We already have dashboards nobody uses. What changes?
Usually two things: the metrics were never agreed in writing, so people distrust them, and the pack contains everything measurable rather than the eight numbers that drive decisions. We fix the definitions first and cut the pack down.
Do we need to buy new software?
Rarely. Most of this runs on spreadsheets, Google Sheets or Looker Studio plus the reports your ATS or HRMS already produces. We will tell you if a paid tool genuinely earns its cost, and otherwise we will not.
Talk to us about portfolio & project management
Tell us the situation and we will give you a straight read on scope, timeline and cost.