The financial services sector has seen more than its share of disruptive change. Since 2008, many financial services IT divisions have tried to shrink expenses and wait out the storm. But at First Horizon, second runner-up in this year's PMO of the Year Award competition, the arrival of a CIO with a very different vision… Read More »

We had planned to showcase a profile of Verizon Wireless Marketing PMO last Thursday on International Project Management Day, but those plans were ... well, overcome by events. It’s doubtful that anyone on the east coast was reading project management blogs last week, anyway, even if they did have electricity. And the folks at… Read More »

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 »

We'll continue our series of profiles of the PMO of the Year Award semifinalists on Wednesday. Meanwhile, here's some news you should use: Registration is open for the September 27 virtual presentation ceremony, and "seats" at the webinar-format event will be limited, so register early.This year we are promoting the award finalists and… Read More »

Today and for the next several weeks, we will be profiling each of the PMO of the Year Award semifinalists … and of course, eventually revealing the winner and top three! Today, we look at a relatively young PMO organization that has quickly revolutionized the project and program culture and processes for one large nonprofit… Read More »

Drumroll, please.The PMO of the Year Award judges panel determined the top performers in our pool of applicants at the end of July after a three-week period of comparing and contrasting the entries on the nine dimensions of PMO performance cited in the award criteria: Demonstration of vision and business acumen in implementing new… Read More »

... and a good time was had by all at the tropical-themed reception, judging from the smiles in the photo below showing (l to r) PMI's PMO Community of Practice President Rommy Musch, Karen Casey, VP of VSP Vision Care's Enterprise Solutions; Maria Urani of Nationwide Insurance's Delivery Services PMO; Robert Rausch, Director… Read More »

... and PM Solutions is represented in Orlando by J. Kent Crawford (pictured below with a visitor to the booth), who gave a presentation this afternoon, along with Debbie Crawford and Johanna Mickel manning -- or maybe that should be "womanning"  -- our booth. The annual event is hosted by PMI's PMO Community… Read More »