Andy Murray

Current

• Owner at Outperform UK Limited

Past

• Director at WPM
• Owner at WPM Solutions Limited
• Product Manager at Fujitsu ICL

• Pre-sales Support at Fujitsu ICL
• Industrial Trainee (Software Engineer) at ICL

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Education

• Brighton

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Industry

Management Consulting

Websites

• My Company
• My Book
• My Blog

Andy Murray’s Summary

About me:

I am a director of Outperform, a registered consultant (PPM, PRINCE2) and was the lead author for PRINCE2 2009. I have helped implement PRINCE2 in numerous organisation across 15 countries (Europe, Asia, North America, Africa, Middle East).

Of particular interest for me is the area of project/programme assurance. I've helped organisations implement audit/assurance schemes and update their project management processes to comply with governance legislation (e.g. Sarbanes-Oxley). In 2004 I started the Chartered Director programme with the IOD as a means to link good practice project/programme governance with corporate governance requirements. I'm pleased to report that in October 2006 I gained Chartered Director status.

I have been using maturity models as a consulting aid for some 8+ years and find them an invaluable tool to help diagnose the root cause of problems to help formulate cost-effective improvement solutions.

In 2007 I was appointed by OGC to be the Lead Author for the PRINCE2 refresh. The revised method (PRINCE2 2009) will be launched on 16th June 2009.

I manage the PRINCE2 group on LinkedIn. http://www.linkedin.com/groupRegistration?gid=40653

About Outperform:

Outperform is an Accredited Consulting Organisation (ACO) assessed in accordance with BS EN 45011 and licensed to consult in the use of OGC best practice products: PRINCE2 (projects), MSP (programmes), M_o_R (risk), P3O (project, programme and portfolio offices), P2MM/P3M3 (maturity models). Outperform is a corporate member of the Association for Project Management, a founding member of the Middle East PPM community of practice and is ISO 9001 certified.

Outperform has an ongoing commitment to the development of ‘best practice’ as evident in providing authors for various best practice publications, white-papers and vodcasts.

More information including white-papers, newsletters and vodcasts can be found on the Outperform website www.outperform.co.uk

Andy Murray’s Specialties:

Scalable services
• Publications (books, white-papers, vodcasts)
• Assessments (audit, health-check, benchmarking, P3M3)
• Training workshops/business games (PRINCEOPOLY)
• Facilitation (kick-off, benefits mapping, risk reviews)
• Coaching
• Embedding frameworks/methods (PRINCE2, MSP, M_o_R, P3O, PfM guide)

Expertise
• Bids
• Projects (incl PRINCE2 2009)
• Programmes (incl MSP)
• Portfolio & change (incl PfM guide & Gateway)
• Risk & governance (incl M_o_R, GoPM)
• PMOs (incl P3O)

Andy Murray’s Experience

• Owner

  Outperform UK Limited

  (Privately Held; Management Consulting industry)

  October 2004 — Present (5 years 6 months)

  Outperform is an Accredited Consulting Organisation (ACO) assessed in accordance with BS EN 45011 and licensed to consult in the use of OGC best practice products: PRINCE2® (projects), MSP™ (programmes), M_o_R® (risk), P3O™ (project, programme and portfolio offices), P2MM/P3M3™ (maturity models). Outperform is a corporate member of the Association for Project Management, a founding member of the Middle East PPM community of practice and is ISO 9001 certified.
  
  At Outperform we pride ourselves on our pragmatic balance between a can-do will-do approach and a deep rooted respect for quality processes. Our services range from ‘light-touch’ guidance (e.g. publications) through to comprehensive implementations (e.g. embedding methods) all delivered by qualified consultants recognised as leaders in their field of expertise.
  
  Example Assignments:
  * Lead Author for the PRINCE2 2009
  * Founder of Middle East PPM community of practice.
  * P3M3 Maturity Assessments for British Council, Sun Microsystems, CGL Rail, Manchester City Council, Sheffield City Council, City of Bradford District Council, Birmingham City Council, SunGard, Lancashire City Council, Dolphin Energy, Metronet (part of London Underground)
  * Project Assurance for Dolphin Energy (Abu Dhabi), Newham NHS PCT, Sun Microsystems
  * Helping Embed MSP at Standard Bank and Herefordshire Council

• Director

  WPM

  (Management Consulting industry)

  1995 — 2004 (9 years )

• Owner

  WPM Solutions Limited

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Management Consulting industry)

  November 1994 — November 2004 (10 years 1 month)

  Co-founder, WPM Solutions Ltd. A precis of 10 years of achievement:
  
  1) Managed the consultancy unit increasing revenues from £150k to £1m in 3 years
  
  2) Managed WPM's major account, generating £1.5m+/year services revenue
  
  3) Trusted Advisor to a US Corporation on all Project Management initiatives. Instrumental in the world-wide implementation of Prince2. 400+ trained in 20+ countries
  
  4) Established a Project Audit capability delivering 100+ audits/year: Health-checks, Focused Audits, Project Assurance
  
  5) Implemented PM capability in a number of councils
  
  6) Managed major bids, beating high profile incumbent suppliers more times than I lost to them
  
  7) Established a Bid Management consultancy capability. Trained 250+ PM's and consultants for an IT vendor in bid management principles and a further 45 bid managers in a master-class. We even won a contract to develop/deliver training courses on a branded bid management method to its owners (yes, coals to newcastle!)

• Product Manager

  Fujitsu ICL

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  October 1992 — October 1994 (2 years 1 month)

  Responsible for managing ICL's portfolio of multi-protocol terminal servers and routers.
  
  Responsibilities included:
  
  1) Market analysis
  
  2) Identifying/evaluating/negotiating with vendors
  
  3) Volume forecasting and inventory management
  
  4) Ensuring relevant approvals were secured (e.g. EMC)
  
  5) Producing marketing plan(s)
  
  6) Ensuring that marketing collateral was in place
  
  7) Keeping the engineering community up to date on latest trends. Specifying training courses for engineers on new releases of equipment.
  
  8) pre-sales consultancy (presentations at beauty parades where required)

• Pre-sales Support

  Fujitsu ICL

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  August 1991 — October 1992 (1 year 3 months)

  Worked within the Bid Management group responsible for all ICL's networking bids (£5m to £150m). Worked as part of bid teams as a proposal manager on a number of high profile bids.

• Industrial Trainee (Software Engineer)

  ICL

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  July 1989 — August 1990 (1 year 2 months)

  Sandwich year as part of Maths Degree.
  
  Worked on a s/w development project from concept to launch for a bespoke network management system (£3.5m development cost). Initially participated in the high-level design as the document owner for the design documents - co-ordinating and tracking input from 8 consultants.
  
  Then took ownership of the MMI module:
  
  1) Produced detailed design document
  2) Developed the module (coding in C)
  3) Produced Test Specs
  4) Participated in Alpha Testing
  5) Managed bug fixing/tracking from testing
  6) Produced release notes on final version
  
  I was commended on my work on this project with later feedback showing that the MMI module received the least amount of support calls from the client over its 4 year in-service use.

Andy Murray’s Education

• Brighton

  BSc (Hons) 2:1 , Mathematics For Decision Making , September 1987 — June 1991

  Won two awards:
  
  1) Highest exam mark in Applied Mathematical Programming
  
  2) Best Final Year Project (Applying Linear Programming techniques on an integer based model - for the efficient scheduling and transportation of sewage from Storage Sites to Treatment Centres)

Additional Information

Andy Murray’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Book
• My Blog

Andy Murray’s Interests:

Motorbikes, England Football Supporter, Chapel Conversion

Andy Murray’s Groups:

Institute of Directors, IOD, MIOD, C.Dir, Association for Project Management, APM, Executive Committe Member of Best Practice User Group, BPUG, PRINCE2 Practitioner, ACO, Accredited Consulting Organisation, PRINCE2 Registered Consultant

•    Global Project Management
•    LInked Business Strategists
•    Worldwide Management Consultants (23,000+ members)
•    The Association for Project Management
•    Project Management Link - www.pmlink.org
•    Project Manager Networking Group
•    PRINCE2 Practitioners
•    Association of Proposal Management Professionals
•    Chartered Director Network
•    The Project Management Podcast
•    PRINCE2 Project Management & MSP Programme Management + Subgroups
•    PPSO SIG
•    Institute of Directors - Members Only
•    ICL Group Reconnect
•    SuperGroup Founders
•    PM4NGOs
•    P3O® Interest Group
•    Portfolio Management Interest Group
•    Global Alliance for Project Performance Standards (GAPPS)
•    PRINCE2 in the Gulf Region
•    PRINCE2 Belgium User Group
•    OGC's Publication Information by TSO (PRINCE2, ITIL, MSP, P3O, P3M3 and M_o_R)
•    PRINCE2 Germany
•    HeadHunt ME
•    Everything Management - Middle East
•    Project Managers at SKF

Andy Murray’s Honors:

PPM Registered Consultant (APMG) 2008
Registered PRINCE2 Practitioner (ISEB) 1997, 2001, 2005
PRINCE2 Registered Consultant (APMG) 2005
Certificate in Company Direction (IOD) 2005
Diploma in Company Direction (IOD) 2005
Chartered Director (IOD) 2006

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