WellPoint, Inc. Takes the Prize for their Implementation Management Office

November 17, 2014 | by J. Kent Crawford

We're here at the PMO Symposium in Miami Beach, where we've just had the honor of helping PMI to give out the 2014 PMO of the Year Awards. Here's the winning line-up: 2014 PMO of the Year: WellPoint, Inc. Government Business Division's Implementation Management Office (IMO) Finalists (in alpha o

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Building the Process Foundation for EPPM Tools

November 17, 2014 | by Allen Young

Rarely do organizations have any of the second level processes in place unless they developed them to work with a prior vendor’s EPPM tool, and the company is simply dropping it in favor of another vendor’s product. That means in most cases that they have to be created as part of the tool implementa

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The Process Side of EPPM Tool Implementations

November 14, 2014 | by Allen Young

This blog was updated June 2025. While organizational change issues are, in my opinion, the most significant component of an EPPM tool implementation, the process issues are a close second. By process, I mean at two levels: First level process The overall project and portfolio management discipli

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Don't Forget to Manage the Organizational Change that EPPM Tools Create

November 12, 2014 | by Allen Young

This blog was updated June 2025. Not to sound like a broken record, let me just repeat (and repeat) that organizational change management (OCM) activities should be injected into every EPPM tool implementation. In parallel with the vendor selection process, conduct an organizational change readines

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EPPM and Decisionmaking: The Impact of Tools on Culture

November 6, 2014 | by Allen Young

In part 1 of this 5-part series, I highlighted several key points that companies should consider as part of the EPPM tool selection process that relate to organizational change readiness, including sponsorship and cultural factors.  Having helped several clients with the tool selection process as we

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