Global Risk Assessment and Strategic Planning

Global Risk Assessment and Strategic Planning is a combined risk-based methodology for management planning and decision making in projects. GRASP uses multi-stakeholder perspectives to enlarge the project team’s knowledge base and increase awareness of the circumstances in which the project can make real progress.

The book provides a practical, infinitely scalable process for managing project risk, improving project delivery planning and executing stakeholder engagement programmes; all intended to increase the likelihood of better project outcomes. As a 'how-to' manual, the book combines user-friendly information with examples that allow a practitioner to use the GRASP methodology in an efficient and effective manner.

Global Risk Assessment and Strategic Planning:

• delivers a flexible, methodological approach to create a richer picture of a project for all parties operating at any level in the participating organisation
• helps improve managers’ ability to plan, assess and understand their projects and the risks inherent in them
• provides managers with a more informed view of their project, which in turn helps them to make more informed decisions
• contributes to a manager’s toolkit by being an essential and practical everyday facilitation aid.

Global Risk Assessment and Strategic Planning has been designed to promote a culture of openness and positive attitudes to risk, stakeholder engagement and problem solving within projects. The methodology has been developed over several years and is in regular use by a number of forward-looking project sponsors and project management teams.

Professor Agi Oldfield
Agi is an Organisational Psychologist and full time academic. Agi has held senior positions within Educational Establishments. Deputy Director of the Enterprise in Higher Education unit at Brunel University. Lecturer at Kingston University, Faculty of Business and Law, Surrey European Management School, Richmond University, Dean of Undergraduate Programmes at European School of Economics, Executive Dean at London School of Business and Finance, a visiting Professor at ESADE Business School Barcelona and also at Budapest University, additionally, has participated in shaping EU risk management policy.Agi undertakes consultancy in organisational risk management and has been involved in the development and use of the GRASP methodology over the last 20 years. In particular Agi has brought academic rigour to the methodology. She has delivered numerous strategic planning workshops and consultancies helping to identify potential risk to meeting strategic organisational or project objectives by applying the GRASP methodology. The methodology has proved to be robust and very effective in aiding organisations and project teams to identify and manage uncertainty through the application of the GRASP methodology organisations including the Civil Aviation Authority, South Downs Health Authority, Railtrack, Tate Gallery and the Millennium Commission to name but a few.

Michael Ocock FRICS, FAPM Michael s career in managing projects has embraced heavy engineering, infrastructure, power generation, retail and property developments and the construction of major health-sector facilities. Michael has acted as executive manager, external management consultant and interim manager and continues to advise on the strategic management of projects. Throughout his career he has championed the practical application of management science to project and programme management and advocated a common sense approach to risk in all its forms. Since 1993 he has collaborated with Prof. Oldfield in developing and applying the GRASP methodology to a wide spectrum of project types and together they have undertaken research into the risk in management systems. Michael is a former member and chairman of BSi s Technical Committee for Project Management.

John McLaughlin B.Eng., MSc, MICE, FAPM John is a chartered civil engineer, vastly experienced in project management and who has made a significant contribution to the body of knowledge in the development and application of value engineering techniques. He has worked across many industries including: building, civil engineering, rail, electrical and mechanical, process-engineering and offshore oil, health, IT, transportation regeneration and development. He has served on the Council of the Association for Project Management (APM) and on its Executive Board. He has held the posts of Chairman and Treasurer of the regional Thames Valley Branch and is past Chair of the Editorial Board for APM s monthly magazine Project and Year Book.

Barry Trebes FRICS, FAPM, FInstCES Barry has over 30 years experience of providing consultancy advice facilitation and training on major developments across numerous business sectors including: aviation, defence, power, utilities, infrastructure, property, rail, highway and water both in the UK and internationally. Barry provides nec3 training and education including providing nec3 for Thomas Telford Master Classes and their Project Manager Accreditation course. He actively contributes to industry knowledge through numerous articles and is co-author of Managing Reality a five book set on the practical use of the nec3 ECC contract, BS 6079 part 4 Project Management in the Construction Industry. He also initiated and help to develop the first web based nec3 contract management system named CCM with MPS Limited in 2000.