1 Scope
This British Standard provides principles and guidance for managing benefits, including developing benefits management frameworks and processes, and enabling the assurance and control of activities
designed to realize planned benefits for the organization, its customers and stakeholders.
This British Standard supports the management of unplanned and emergent benefits and dis‑benefits, and the optimization of benefits.
This British Standard can be applied to portfolios, programmes, projects and other related work.
This British Standard is relevant to senior directors, managers and benefits management practitioners, and those who work or interact with them, regardless of
their experience, including:
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a) the organization’s management teams;
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b) portfolio directors and managers;
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c) sponsors and managers of programmes and projects;
NOTE Sponsors can include senior responsible owners.
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d) specialists in the management of organizational and societal change;
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e) user‑centred design teams, knowledge management teams, researchers, evaluation/analytical teams; and
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f) educators and trainers.