Program Rescue

When a program fails—especially if it’s large, complex or high-risk—it can damage your bottom line, marketplace reputation, and shareholder value. Many programs fail because businesses either don’t recognize issues early enough, or are unsure what actions to take to remediate problems.

Over many years of helping businesses recover complex programs, we’ve developed a core capability in Program Rescue. We provide a highly experienced team, structured approach and supporting tools and techniques to turn your programs around. We can help drive rapid recovery action, and rescue your program before it’s too late.

Our Approach

Our approach to Program Rescue focuses on eliminating bureaucracy, minimizing documentation, and sub-dividing the program into small, self-empowered teams with a common recovery "game plan." This ensures that program and related project objectives and outcomes are effectively reconfirmed, that the scope is clear and well managed and that "decision point-driven" with clear checkpoints.

Central to our innovative Program Rescue approach is an emphasis on early intervention—minimizing the time to influence a program in the context of overall objectives. The key: getting programs and sponsors to recognize and act on early signs of trouble.

 

Figure 1 - The innovative, 5-phased Program Rescue approach

When to Use Program Rescue

Our Program Rescue solution can benefit organizations that face any of the following issues on a project or program:

  • Multiple program milestones have been missed or overrun
  • Escalating program costs and lack of financial management/reporting
  • Poor program team morale and lack of belief in the goal
  • A program agenda that exceeds the organization’s ability to deliver
  • An operational risk profile that exceeds an acceptable level
  • A sponsor who has lost faith in the ability of the project or program manager to deliver

Our Proposition

You only get one chance to rescue a program and preserve stakeholder buy-in. As specialists in rescuing failing or wayward programs, we have helped many companies around the globe, across a variety of business sectors. By collaborating with us, you gain the benefit of our:

  • Highly experienced and energized program specialists
  • Track record for saving programs under high-pressure conditions
  • Proven Program Rescue approach and framework, supported by time-saving tools
  • Strong focus on working in your organization’s culture
 

Our Approach

  • The Cognizant Difference

    It's in our DNA. Placing our clients first is embedded in the Cognizant culture. By investing in our people and resources, we bring new ideas and innovation to help you succeed in a changing business environment.

  • Two-in-a-Box

    We embed senior personnel with demonstrated industry expertise in your IT organization. They coordinate strategy with dedicated offsite delivery managers, freeing your team to concentrate on core business objectives.

  • Cognizant 2.0

    By employing the Cognizant 2.0 platform, we bring the best people, resources and capabilities of our global delivery system to any client, anywhere.