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Sep 19, 2012
Few of the organizations in the PMO of the Year Award competition had as tumultuous a year in 2011 as T-Mobile. In March of 2011, its parent company, Deutsche Telekom, entered into a proposed agreement with AT&T to sell its T-Mobile USA subsidiary, which celebrated its 10th year in the US market this month. This… Read More »
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Jul 27, 2012
Maturity doesn’t always come up as a significant factor in Organizational Change Management (OCM) discussion circles, but in my experience, you ignore it at your peril! I became aware of this issue while setting up Project Management Offices (PMOs) and doing enterprise Project Portfolio Management (PPM) tool implementations for two of the firms… Read More »
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Jun 14, 2012
“Change Management” can mean differing and multiple things to many firms and the people who work for them. To the software developer, it usually means managing version control and scheduled promotion of new or modified software components from a test, quality assurance or staging platform to the production environment on the “go… Read More »
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Jun 8, 2012
Companies experience revenue growth in a number of ways -- by increasing market share, offering new products and/or mergers and acquisitions. While growth is always a positive thing, there are some organizational side effects. New departments, business units, functional groups, and the like will be created or expanded to meet the new market needs.… Read More »
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May 24, 2012
Coordination of many resources over many efforts (whether project or operational) is required to ensure that an organization functions properly. That’s why resource coordination is one of the main functions of the PMO.Through Project Portfolio Management (PPM) techniques, the typical enterprise or Strategic PMO works with senior management to start and… Read More »
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Nov 29, 2011
This is the time of year when, although our personal energies may be focused on home and family for the holidays, our business energies leapfrog over the year's end: forecasts and budgets for 2012 loom large. What trends should we capitalize upon? What risks can we plan to dodge?Forecasting - both business and weather… Read More »
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Oct 28, 2011
VSP Vision Care® placed as first runner-up in the 2011 PMO of the Year competition, largely because they have shown themselves to be ahead of the curve in solving the "problems of success" and moving their program and portfolio practice to ever-higher levels of sophistication as the company grew.VSP provides vision benefits to more… Read More »
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Jul 14, 2011
Whew, that was a close one.Many close ones, in fact. The field of 33 entries in this year's PMO of the Year Award competition was amazing. I wish our confidentiality rules did not preclude my naming all those who entered. From the Middle East and Africa, and across Canada and the US, we gathered… Read More »
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