Programme Management Office Design & Value
Build the PMO that helps delivery instead of measuring it.
The executive challenge
The problem this program solves
Decisions are made in the boardroom and die in the middle: programme management office design commitments everyone agrees with, and nobody owns. The most capable people disengage first: they can absorb uncertainty, but not endless relaunches of a programme management office design agenda they once believed in. The programme builds the craft authority cannot confer: how to sequence programme management office design, assemble its coalition, and keep it moving when everything competes.
Context
Why this matters now
Capability
What you will be able to do
- Make high-stakes programme management office design decisions under uncertainty with a disciplined, repeatable process.
- Build the coalition any serious programme management office design change requires.
- Lead programme management office design change that survives resistance, politics and leadership turnover.
- Deliver the first 90 days of programme management office design with commitments you can keep.
The IPAT Course Standard
The five-day journey
Each day is a deliberate progression in managerial capability — from strategic context, to analytical frameworks, to applied practice, to executive judgement under pressure, to a capstone that produces something your organisation keeps.
IPAT Signature Case™
The Decision Only You Can Make
A reorganisation at a public university has one role too many at the top: two trusted executives, one mandate in programme management office design, and a board that wants it resolved before results season.
Your decision: Decide the mandate, the person and the exit — with the fairness, the narrative and the successor plan each choice implies.
Day 5 · The Capstone
What will you change when you return to work?
Build the execution architecture for your institution's most important strategic commitment: decision rights, cadence, accountability, and your own first 90 days.
Methodology
Frameworks you will master
- • IPAT Strategic Execution Framework™
- • IPAT Executive Capability Model™
- • Scenario planning methodology
- • Strategy maps and balanced scorecard lineage
- • Decision-rights design (RAPID-style)
Cohorts
Upcoming cohorts
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Register with your preferred start date and our admissions team will match you to the next available cohort — or contact us to arrange an in-house delivery for your organisation.
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