The two most critical factors are management commitment and a competent value practitioner to ensure that a relevant approach is consistently applied.
The European Value Management standard describes strategic and planning frameworks to realise the benefits. A competent value practitioner can support their application at a strategic, programme or operational level can to achieve organisational needs, making the best uses of internal capabilities both in teams and individually.
VM can be applied incrementally, delivering returns on investment of between 20 -40 times the cost, plus significant soft benefits with low risk.