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Key performance indicators (KPI), targets by another word, seem to be here to stay.

Benefits Management and Benefits Realisation are priorities for public sector – too much money has been spent, for too long, with no evidence that the taxpayer (or anyone else) is getting value for money.

We might be – but with no way to find out, we get suspicious.

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

That doesn't look like the headline for a professional article!

When I seek joy and only joy, all else comes to me. I know right now that I have a lot to learn, that I've spent far too long worrying about being professional, protecting my reputation, earning money, pretending I'm seeking freedom when in reality I'm frightened to set out on my own.

It has taken a real effort of will, and a real effort of surrender, to get to this point.

So I'm not trying to do what I ought to do.

I met some old college friends over the weekend, and realised the contrast between those following their passion, and those who'd accidentally ended up where they were. It made me wonder "am I following my dream?"

I'm passionate about the benefits work I do because i believe that it can make a difference.