MOTOR PMO Attacks Two Difficult Issues: Resource Management and Acquisition Integration

September 6, 2012 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

What do Good Housekeeping magazine, ESPN, The San Francisco Chronicle and a business-to-business provider of technical information for the automotive industry have in common? They are all part of the Hearst Corporation, one of the nation’s largest diversified media and information companies, owner

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Organizational Change Management: Capacity

August 6, 2012 | by Allen Young

Like maturity (see previous post here), capacity doesn’t always come up as a significant factor in Organizational Change Management (OCM) discussions but in my experience it is equally as important. Capacity actually has to be considered from two perspectives: individual and organizational capacity.

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Maturity’s Impact on Organizational Change

July 27, 2012 | by Allen Young

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 (

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Organizational Change Management: Cultural Resistance

June 25, 2012 | by Allen Young

As stated in my primer blog on Organizational Change Management (OCM), without OCM, when change confronts culture, culture always wins! In order to get the culture of a firm to embrace and institutionalize a significant change, several factors come into play that, depending on how they are handled,

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Organizational Change Management: Sponsorship is Job One

June 20, 2012 | by Allen Young

As my primer blog on Organizational Change Management (OCM) last week stated, sponsorship is priority #1 — without it, your change initiative will assuredly stall and will fail sooner or later. What exactly do I mean by sponsorship? Authorizing Sponsor This is the person (or group, in some cases)

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