Positive Thoughts, Helpful Ideas

November 14, 2018 | by Johanna Mickel

Yesterday was a mix of validating old ideas and being surprised by new insights. Conference breaks always afford the opportunity for some wonderful conversations, hearing what is going on in other organizations, and sometimes having my own experience or ideas validated. Case in point: I had to smil

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PMOs are Leading Change and More

November 13, 2018 | by Johanna Mickel

Panel discussions at the PMO Symposium give me writer's cramp! It's hard to take notes fast enough, especially when confronted with an array of highly knowledgeable practitioners. The panelists were: Melissa Eckers, Accenture Brian Murphy, CapGemini Jan Musil, SAP Noel Smyth, JP Morgan The u

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Methodology Leads the Way

November 12, 2018 | by Johanna Mickel

Hello from the PMO Symposium, where the theme, “Mastering Value Delivery,” feels so congruent with what we’ve been working on with clients recently. I loved the “beauty pageant” kickoff where the Session Preview gave multiple speakers a chance to pitch their sessions. The only problem: I can’t clone

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Knowledge and Responsibility

October 31, 2018 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

Earlier this year, I wrote a blog featuring some interesting research on the impact of management consulting. The main point was that companies that had undergone management consulting engagements continued to experience positive impacts based on that knowledge transfer for months ... even years, ac

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New Research Study Released: The Adaptive Organization

October 23, 2018 | by Carrie Capili

Recently, the PM Solutions Research Team conducted its latest research initiative: The Adaptive Organization: A Benchmark of Changing Approaches to Project Management. The study was designed to discover to what degree organizations employ adaptive approaches in their project management practice and

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