To bring together multiple organisations to work together to deliver on a program of this scale and complexity. The Integrated Program Management Office (IPMO) was tasked with integrating the overall program to provide government stakeholders with a cohesive view of the entire HS2 program – enabling informed decision making, aligning delivery with benefits and ultimately providing confidence in the program. This involved bringing together the Department for Transport, High Speed Two Limited, Network Rail, the Department for Communities and Local Government, the Department for Business Innovation and Skills and various local growth bodies.
To achieve this objective, MI-GSO | PCUBED worked as part of the HS2 team to identify a range of challenges:
- Objectives and priorities of the various parties needed to be aligned for success
- Development was required to bring all parties to an appropriate level of maturity
- Systems needed to be unified to provide a ‘Single Source of The Truth’ for the program
- Achieving the optimum balance of efficient delivery of the railway with maximum overall benefit realization.