The strategic problem this addresses

Validated solutions fail at the point of implementation. Governance is unclear, risks and dependencies surface late, stakeholders are informed rather than engaged, and benefits are never measured.

Intended audience

Change and transformation leads
Programme and project managers
Innovation Practitioners with a validated solution
Service owners responsible for adoption

Prerequisites

Innovation Processes
Innovation Practitioner (recommended), or a validated solution ready to implement

Duration and delivery format

2 days. In person or live online, cohort of 12 to 24.

Capability outcomes

By the end of the programme and its workplace application, participants can:

01Build a delivery roadmap that sequences work around dependencies and decisions
02Design a governance model proportionate to the risk and scale of the change
03Maintain a live risk and dependency register
04Plan stakeholder engagement and adoption, not just communications
05Define a benefits framework that sponsors will recognise as credible

Course experience

Day one builds the delivery roadmap and governance model for a real solution, then stress-tests both against the risk and dependency register.

Day two focuses on people: stakeholder engagement, adoption planning, change communications and the benefits framework that will show whether the change worked.

Methods

Delivery roadmapping
Governance design
Risk and dependency management
Stakeholder engagement
Adoption planning
Benefits management

Tools

Microsoft Project, Planner or Jira
Miro
Copilot or Claude for risk analysis, stakeholder analysis and change communications

Where AI supports this programme

Risk and stakeholder analysis, Change communications, Benefits tracking. Human ownership of decisions, source checking and your organisation’s information-handling rules apply throughout. How we govern AI use.

Practical outputs

Work products recorded in the Capability Portfolio.

Delivery roadmap
Governance model
Risk and dependency register
Stakeholder engagement plan
Adoption plan
Benefits framework

Workplace application

Participants put the governance model and roadmap into operation, run the first stakeholder engagement cycle and report the first benefits measure.

Assessment and recognition

The operating governance model, the first benefits report and a reflection on adoption. Recorded in the Capability Portfolio.

Capability Portfolio record

Completion and workplace evidence are recorded in the participant’s Capability Portfolio and count toward facilitator and leadership stages.

Position within the wider pathway

A Deliver stage specialist module. It picks up where Innovation Practitioner ends: the validated solution now has to be implemented, adopted and measured.