Services
Program & Project Management
Optimizing performance and driving execution
Executing any strategy—whether a large-scale transformation, an acquisition integration, a program, or a project— requires an executable plan, effective governance, and coordinated execution. The scope, size, and complexity of the initiatives may vary, but the need to accelerate results does not. However, in a world where change accelerates at incredible velocity, many organizations struggle to implement their strategies and fail to bring together the people, resources, tools, and knowledge to achieve a unified goal that drives value creation.
Ankura translates vision into structure and helps our clients create, shape, and deliver transformational change. Our team of seasoned practitioners drive the success of an organization’s most critical strategic initiatives, ensuring cross-functional planning, team alignment, and the execution necessary to drive business performance. Our consultants often serve as program and project leaders to ensure the critical initiatives are completed, while modeling and building the capabilities of the internal team to sustain results.
Offerings
- Program & Project Initiative Leadership
Our team of seasoned practitioners drive the success of an organization’s most critical strategic initiatives, ensuring cross-functional planning, team alignment, and the execution necessary to drive business performance. Our consultants often serve as program and project leaders to ensure the critical initiatives are completed, while modeling and building the capabilities of the internal team to sustain results.with organizations to establish, lead, and optimize PMOs that effectively sustain momentum and deliver results.
- Program Management Office Optimization
An effective program management office (PMO) has the ability to leverage both the art and science of establishing minimal viable governance and accelerated decision-making, setting priorities, aligning resources, and getting things done in order to rapidly deliver solutions that drive incremental value. Ankura works with organizations to establish, lead, and optimize PMOs that effectively drive momentum and deliver results.
- Strategic Roadmap Development
Ankura’s highly engaging approach drives rapid assessment of a client’s current business environment and capabilities, defines or refreshes vision the for future, develops key people, process, and technology initiatives needed to drive desired business outcomes, and prioritizes initiatives, resulting in a strategic roadmap that will guide detailed workplan creation and program monitoring.
Our Latest Thinking
Online Retail Startup
Achieving 150% Month-over-Month Growth
Ankura partnered with a rapidly growing online retail company to support a transition from startup to established company, which required rapid scaling of operations. During the engagement, Ankura developed the project roadmap and led the execution of multiple expansion initiatives, achieving 150% month-over-month growth. As part of this expansion, Ankura successfully managed the construction, build-out, and migration of a manufacturing environment, accommodating over 200 staff members. In addition, Ankura led the opening of an off-shore customer support center and the organization’s first two brick-and-mortar retail locations.
The Ankura Difference
We partner with our clients at every step to translate strategy into results. We ask tough questions and expose key risks, driving alignment on an integrated program and change leadership approach. When executed, these programs achieve the results envisioned by the business strategy, increase adoption of change, reduce risk, and accelerate value creation. Throughout any project, Ankura drives decision-making, alignment, and the commitment necessary to realize lasting results.
Key Contacts
- Meg Underwood
Senior Managing Director
Nashville, TN