Managing Change, Realizing Value Take Center Stage at Gartner

June 2, 2014 | by Johanna Mickel

I’m at the Gartner PPM and IT Governance Summit in National Harbor, MD, just outside Washington, DC and, looking back on the first day of keynotes and presentations, I recognize a familiar feeling: that it’s not so much that I heard anything new, as that Gartner analysts have a way of summarizing an

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Managing Disruption ... Not an Oxymoron for Today's PMO

April 2, 2014 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

Managing disruption? Isn't that a contradiction in terms? Here at PM Solutions, we don't think so. We think there are aspects of project and program management that make the PMO the ideal partner in managing disruptive innovation and change. And in tomorrow's webinar, a reprise of J. Kent Crawford

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OCM, The People Side: Leverage the Champions of Change

February 19, 2014 | by Allen Young

Continuing to flesh out the areas I’d like to see expanded on in any OCM model, let’s take a look at how the PMO and its people contribute to—or impede—an organization’s “change-ability.” According to PM Solutions’ own research, the majority of firms already have a PMO of some sort in place, and t

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Four Rules to Change By

January 21, 2014 | by Allen Young

Continuing my “wish list” of issues I would like to see covered in more depth in PMI’s new Practice Standard for Change Management (see the first post in the series here), today I’m giving a quick overview of the four top issues that Organizational Change Management practitioners encounter. (If you

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Some Applause, Please!

December 31, 2013 | by Allen Young

When I initially received a PDF draft copy of PMI’s “Managing Change in Organizations: A Practice Guide,” the first thing I did was cry out “It’s about time!” The concept of organizational change management (OCM) has been around for quite a while now and over the last decade or so has become recogni

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