Summary

• Business Needs Development

  Business Needs Development

  The client’s commitment to invest in a project should be established at the earliest stage.  Development of business needs is an essential activity which provides clarity of need and a sound basis for decision making, management and control throughout the project programme. 
  
  
• Strategic and Global Brief

  Strategic and Global Brief

  Strategic and global briefing establishes a client’s business objectives, targets, opportunities and constraints. Quite often driven by a desire to change, the client’s high level brief identifies both physical and functional requirements ultimately leading to an integrated solution.
• Option Development/Appraisal

  Option Development/Appraisal

  Appraisals should provide an assessment of whether a proposal is worthwhile, and clearly communicate conclusions and recommendations. The Vector technique involves option appraisal, whereby objectives are developed, and options are created and reviewed, by analysing their costs and benefits.
• Business Case Development

  Business Case Development

  Business cases can range from comprehensive and highly structured, as required by Vector’s formal project management methodologies, to informal and brief.  The logic of developing the business case is to verify that any time and resources that are consumed should be in support of the business.
• Benefits and Financial Analysis

  Benefits and Financial Analysis

  As part of business case analysis linking the proposed investment to the client’s business plan, or financial model, sets the proposed project in the context of client’s wider business. This thereby enables a fuller understanding of its potential value to the business and resources employed.
  
  
• Life Cycle Planning

  Life Cycle Planning

  Organising and managing resources to deliver all the work required to complete a project within defined scope, time, and cost constraints is part of a project. Vector also considers the permanent or semi-permanent processes which are ongoing functions to maintain the facility throughout its life.
• Master Planning / Process Planning

  Master Planning / Process Planning

  A Master Plan must be robust and it must be flexible.  Vector sees this as a vision and a framework for the long term, realistic for the short term and capable of being reviewed and updated at regular milestones. 
• Concept and Preliminary Design Management

  Concept and Preliminary Design Management

  Design management acts in the interface of management and design and functions as the link between technology, design thinking and management at internal and external interfaces. Each project needs clarity. Vector will intervene, organise, mediate and structure in an increasing more complex economic world.
• Site Appraisal/Evaluation

  Site Appraisal/Evaluation

  Site evaluation explores options, giving consideration to site parameters such as development potential, logistics, functionality, appearance, costs, opportunities, constraints and risks. Vector recommends early design workshops with the Client stakeholders to prepare and document the requirement and solution.  
• Environmental Audits/Assessments

  Environmental Audits/Assessments

  Environmental audits are intended to quantify environmental performance and environmental position of a project.  Vector co-ordinates the environmental audit / assessment process as an integral component of its development management procedures.
• Demand and Capacity Analysis

  Demand and Capacity Analysis

  For transport infrastructure planning (airports, ports, rail, etc.) establishing future demand and testing against actual and future capacity, identifying scale of need and a basis for option analysis. Vector specialises in such exercises.
• User Requirement and Performance Specifications

  User Requirement and Performance Specifications

  These set down a client’s operational needs centred on his business objectives and financial targets.  They provide a starting point for developing system options and solutions and form the basis to develop an Invitation to Tender (ITT) as part of the procurement exercise.