sayAplus
The One-Stop Shop for Project Management and PMO

Dealing with a constantly shifting business landscape has become the norm for organizations across industries. Implementing initiatives to address disruptive forces like customer demands, globalization, competition, and technology is vital to ensuring profitability, sustainable competitive advantage, and continued growth. Many companies fail to deliver their projects and initiatives because they may lack the strategic direction, the tools and techniques, or the experienced resources that have an actionoriented mindset to deliver ambitious goals. sayAplus believes that for initiatives to succeed, businesses must strike a balance between strategy, delivery, and culture; and Mr. Attar outlines in his book “Change to Win” www.RiasAttar.com

For each client, sayAplus helps establish a strategic architecture focused on people, processes, technology, and data elements. This includes goals and objectives like revenue increase, market share capture, digital transformation, cost reduction, process improvement, and culture optimization.

In a sector where technological adeptness is increasingly crucial, the firm has positioned itself at the forefront of this wave. Rias Attar, president of sayAplus, passionately asserts, “We are more than consultants; we are the architects of the digital era and business transformation.”

The team then builds a delivery vehicle to implement the strategy by creating a solid project management discipline. sayAplus is a trusted leader and indispensable partner for organizations seeking robust project management services, change management enablement, and comprehensive strategic alignment. Its value proposition extends beyond delivering projects, looking at the bigger picture to align a client’s initiatives and efforts with a strategy— The Northern Star. It also ensures human and capital resources are utilized efficiently to successfully deliver each project according to scope, under budget, and within the set schedule while addressing the change management requirements.

At sayAplus, project management is both a science and an art. The tools, artifacts, techniques, and playbooks leveraged make it an intricate science. At the same time, the experience and thought leadership of an effective sponsor and project manager add an artistic element. Their knowledge of how to gain support and align with key project stakeholders is vital for successful project management.

sayAplus has shown tremendous success in project, program, and portfolio management. Project management brings focus and discipline shaped by constraints such as scopes, resources, costs, quality, and schedule, whether the projects are waterfall or agile. Program management coordinates related projects to obtain benefits that might not be obtained if they are managed separately. It may also involve completing some work that is outside the scope of its individual projects. Portfolio management balances the prioritization, implementation, and control of change enabled by related or unrelated projects and programs to deliver the strategic objectives of the organizations.

Project management is fairly easy for a new business. With only one or two projects taking place, it does not take much to get a handle on everything. However, as the business grows and the number of projects increases, project management can become overwhelming – unless something is done to make it easier and more efficient. This is where a Project Management Office (PMO) comes in. PMOs are nurtured to keep all projects under control, ensuring effective and efficient delivery of all cross-functional projects. Throughout the journey, sayAplus improves culture and addresses organizational change management—the people element of every business.

sayAplus has a track record in building and maturing PMOs that keep track of the standards and specifications of projects, allowing governance on intake and approval, creating efficient ways of handling tasks, keeping required documentation in place, providing guidance and best practices, and keeping track of ongoing project metrics. PMOs are utilized to establish governance and to ensure that the efforts are aligned and not duplicative. They also allow the teams involved to communicate and not overstep each other’s shoes. PMOs ensure that the initiatives are moving properly from ideation all the way to execution and closing, while a tracker is established to ensure a pulse check is applied frequently to know what is working, what is not working, and what changes need to be made mid-course.

Complicated and labor-intensive tools and techniques often confuse team members and leaders. In these cases, sayAplus advocates for simplicity and clarity. Clients also wish to implement different techniques they come across but fail to judge when they are adequate and when they can cause problems. For instance, traditional waterfall project management methods are effective when the end outcome is clear, like building a tower or a bridge.

Agile, alternatively, is more suited when the end state is unclear and needs numerous iterations to get a higher degree of certainty, such as software and product development. sayAplus leverages its experience and educates clients on the benefits and drawbacks of every practice.

Organizations also grapple with a multitude of project management issues, ranging from managing priorities to project execution and delivery. Regardless of the challenge, sayAplus specializes in providing astute solutions to problems, enabling clients to seamlessly navigate them. Its approach to each obstacle is akin to that of a medical clinic.

“Much like physicians, when we start any engagement with a client we begin with data collection. While physicians ask for blood tests, MRIs, and collect vital signs, in business we start by reviewing business/ financial data, establishing and evaluating Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), interviewing and surveying the leaders, staff, and customers to complete a comprehensive evaluation of the organizations current state and challenges “pains” they are suffering from. Then we provide solutions for a better future state that fixes the issues while focusing on value creation. Our thorough analysis of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats ensures a nuanced understanding of the organizational landscape,” says Attar.

“Then proposed solutions with measurable actions are presented and discussed with the clients to deliver the value creation and ROI they are seeking, whether it is to bring a strategic project back on track, to increase margin and profitability, to execute on an established technology roadmap, to help boost positive culture and increase adoption, or to establish a PMO, Integration Management Office (IMO), or a Center of Excellence (COE).”

Much like physicians, when we start any engagement with a client we begin with data collection. While physicians ask for blood tests, MRIs, and collect vital signs, in business we start by reviewing business/ financial data, establishing and evaluating Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), interviewing and surveying the leaders, staff, and customers to complete a comprehensive evaluation of the organizations current state and challenges “pains” they are suffering from. Then we provide solutions for a better future state that fixes the issues while focusing on value creation

sayAplus’ expertise in holistic project management has earned it the complete trust and appreciation of its clients. In one instance, it helped an organization address their scattered and fragmented project management practices and staff resistance to change. The company worked with the staff and leaders to align and implement a methodology and technologies adequate for their use cases and size. It established an effective PMO to ensure projects were properly scoped, reviewed, triaged, evaluated, prioritized, kicked off, and executed. Then, sayAplus established bestin- class project management practices and put in place a training program to ensure staff are positioned for success. The sayAplus team also helped the client build great project leaders and inspired them to lead the initiative effectively. It worked on 14 elements that boost positive culture, surveyed its progress every quarter, and facilitated sustainable improvement across all aspects. Addressing elements in change management concurrently while managing projects increases the speed of adoption, boosts employees’ buy-in, and allows individuals to perform up to the level expected. That enabled faster synergies realization, reduction of re-work, less confusion for customers/employees, and better alignment among key stakeholders.

What sets sayAplus apart is the effectiveness of its approach, the simplicity of its solutions, and its proven track record. The seamless integration of project and change management makes it the premier choice for organizations seeking solutions to complex business challenges and project management excellence. For those looking to enhance their performance and competitiveness, sayAplus is the perfect strategic partner for navigating the complex project management landscape.

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