Office Relocation Benefits Realisation Plan
This is a practical guide to building a benefits realisation plan for an office relocation project — how the project’s benefits will be measured and actually realised, adapted to the realities of moving an office to new premises.
What a Benefits Realisation Plan is
A benefits realisation plan is how the project’s benefits will be measured and actually realised. For the full concept and how it works in general, see Benefits Realization. On an office relocation project it plays the same role, tuned to this kind of work.
Why it matters for an Office Relocation project
Office Relocation projects live or die on moving an office to new premises. A well-built benefits realisation plan gives the team a shared, explicit reference for exactly that — reducing ambiguity, aligning stakeholders, and making problems visible early enough to act. Skipping it, or doing it generically, is how office relocation projects drift into avoidable delay and cost.
What to include
- Target benefits
- Metrics / KPIs
- Baseline values
- Owner
- Realisation timeline
Office Relocation-specific considerations
Tailor the benefits realisation plan to the risks that most often derail office relocation projects:
- Minimising downtime
- IT and telephony cutover
- Staff communication
Example
On a real office relocation project, the benefits realisation plan would be shaped by moving an office to new premises. In particular, it should explicitly account for the project’s biggest risks — minimising downtime, IT and telephony cutover, staff communication — rather than treating them as afterthoughts.