Project Management has traditionally been the preserve of the construction and heavy engineering industries. It now supports projects ranging from software development and new product launches, to business change initiatives and major sporting events such as the Olympic Games.

Increasingly Project Management is being used as a management tool across all industry sectors for all types of non-business as usual activities. It supports business in the need for technically complex products and processes, ever-shortening design-to-market windows for new products, the need for cross-functional expertise and the implementation of outsourcing agreements.

Commercial and public sector organisations have started to adopt this approach because it provides benefits across all disciplines and industry sectors. It is a way to get businesses and organisations to react quickly but in a structured and controlled manner to rapidly changing business environments and constantly evolving strategies.

Programme Management is about achieving benefits that are of strategic importance to an organisation. It is also about the delivery of business strategy at the operational level, the leadership needed to transition a business or organisation and is regularly used to support large scale change within organisations.