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A colleague asked me over a coffee “how do you go about identifying, defining and quantifying benefits? How do you create a benefits realisation plan?”. I think hidden behind the question was a number of thoughts:

If the Benefits Management Strategy is the high-level and relatively unchanging document, then with the Benefits Approach and Benefits Tracking process we get down to the nitty gritty of doing the doing.

• Identifying Benefits
• Profiling
• Creating a High-Level plan and getting signup
• Quantifying, and getting signup
• Summarising and Detailing
• Planning the realisation
• the Benefits Realisation Plan

The Benefits Approach is about a whole lot more detail on how you will tackle this

How to prepare a benefits realisation plan (BRP) and how it supports project management and performance management, with the main and most useful resources

Preparing your Benefits Realisation Plan

Benefits Planning is much more than just filling in a template - besides, who's template do you complete?