IPD Governance Implications

We set out to answer the following problem statement: How do clients ensure that IPD projects are appropriately governed, so that the briefing process facilitates the project being the ‘right project’ and that the project is subsequently effectively and appropriately delivered? Obviously, the answer given will be limited to the context described in this chapter. We further disaggregated this question into the following two questions: 1 What are the organisational structures and institutional pillar characteristics that provide the structure and culture for effective project/program governance? [Governance] 2 What mechanisms and processes ensure that ensure that these governance intentions are enacted and that in practice IPD project participants made clearly accountable? [Governmentality] The text and tables above illustrate that the questions do not have short, exact answers, but we will extract some main aspects here: