How to facilitate Benefits Mapping Workshop to identify Benefits

To identify benefits, it’s important to conduct a Benefits Assessment Workshop using a Benefit Map showing the relationships between the enablers, benefits, and objectives. The workshop should include the core members of the project team and key stakeholders to develop the core benefits realisation plan.

Benefit Mapping is a useful tool for both project planning and stakeholder engagement. Ideally, this can be done at the very early stage of the project, prior to initiation as it will inform the Outline Business Case (OBC). There is a tendency for projects to focus on the enablers or capabilities rather than the benefits, and to focus on deliverables rather than business changes required to realise these benefits.