Programme, Project & Contract Management (PPCM) is the cornerstone and integrator of our engineering consulting services. As reflected in the range of Infrastructure Development Services, we manage projects (single or multiple/ concurrent) from initiation, planning, design and procurement, through construction, commissioning and closure. Besides, we offer consulting services that help our Clients improve their maturity and enhance their capabilities in PPCM (e.g. development of PM systems, procedures and tools, establishment of PMO, training, etc.).
Programme Management plays a significant role in …

Value creation is by nature a core need for enterprises operating in a competitive landscape or for organizations servicing public interest. Subsequently, the key drivers of such value creation have to be articulated into actionable and measurable plans for implementation.
Working with enterprises and organizations to that end, all dimensions need to be addressed as follows:

Market/Scope perimeter definition and sizing
Competitive /Stakeholder dynamics
Customer / Beneficiary segmentation
Opportunity definition and assessment
Value chain alignment and optimization
Technology and people alignment and optimization
Financial outcome consideration

In articulating further …

Economic development fosters significant activity in areas such as:

Public Private Partnerships,
New Project Development,
Mergers and Acquisitions,

and as such requires the execution of an investment life-cycle:

Investment strategy development
Project preparation and maturity
Investor mobilization and selection
Project funding and implementation

To ensure achievement of the anticipated results from such investment activity, advisory services are needed across the whole investment life-cycle such services including

Business and financial planning
Legal and regulatory consideration
Stakeholder management and negotiation
Technical and construction implementation
Project management and integration

We have the capability to provide such services across …

Upgrading the Human Capital of an organisation is intrinsically linked with the implementation of the strategy through people, i.e. by aligning values and behaviours to the development of new business patterns.  In addition, Human Capital Management represents a key lever for performance improvement, to be achieved through the organised acquisition, development and harnessing of the necessary skills and competencies.
Human Capital Management delivery encompasses the following services, provided, whenever required, in association with our affiliated company PLAS S.A.

Human Resources Development: Training …

Today, more than ever, government and commercial organizations face an increasing need to respond to changing conditions, late trends, rapidly evolving technology and new standards and regulations, while ensuring operational effectiveness, cost efficiency and optimal performance.
Though pressures on business and operating models may differ (e.g. economic crisis response, citizen/consumer shift preferences, consolidation trends, business lines integration, cost cutting, red-tape reduction, productivity improvement, technology breakthroughs, regulatory compliance, etc.), improving performance has become a common essential priority across all business and institutional …

An Enterprise Architecture (EA) represents a structured and harmonised collection of plans for designing and evaluating the IT architecture of an organisation. It provides a variety of integrated views at different abstraction levels concerning the current and target states of the EA. It also includes a migration plan for transitioning from the AS-IS architecture to the TO-BE architecture. The EA enables IT Managers to manage the overall IT investment in a way that meets the needs of the business, while …

Creating an efficient IT Project Management structure constitutes the prerequisite for managing and organising effectively the implementation of IT systems, by jointly addressing not only IT systems’ implementation issues but critical people and process issues as well. PLANET’s extensive experience has shown that IT projects are difficult to manage; they include the typical project management challenges such as strict deadlines, budget and resource constraints, while additionally they involve unique technology challenges, arising from the fact that information technology changes continuously …

Nowadays, every organisation uses one or more IT systems to process, store, exchange and share information. Information is an asset that, like other important business assets, is essential to a business or organisation and consequently needs to be suitably protected. This is especially important in the increasingly interconnected business environment, where information is now exposed to a growing number and a wide variety of risks which could compromise the most important aspects of information; confidentiality, integrity and availability. Some common …