Hi *|FNAME|*,

You don’t always need to be running a formal IMS workshop to use the discipline behind the Investment Management Standard.

Four simple questions can improve the quality of many early investment, planning and business case conversations:

1. What is the genuine investment need?
What is happening, why does it matter and what evidence supports it?

2. What value do we want to create?
If the Problems are successfully addressed, what meaningful improvement should we see?

3. What are the genuinely different ways we could respond?
Before settling on a Solution, have we considered alternative strategic approaches?

4. What actually needs to change or be put in place?
What Business Changes and enabling Assets are required to give effect to the preferred Response?

These questions can be useful well beyond a formal ILM — in early project discussions, policy development, planning, investment reviews and business case development.

I’ve put together a short IMS Conversation Guide based around these questions.

[Download the IMS Conversation Guide]

Please feel free to share it with colleagues if you think it would help a discussion in your organisation.