Announcing the 2012 PMO of the Year Semifinalists

August 20, 2012 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

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

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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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Transformational Resources: An Interview with J. Kent Crawford

July 18, 2012 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

Q: Lately many of our corporate discussions have centered on the role of the “transformational resource.” Can you tell us your thoughts about that? What makes a resource “transformational?” Crawford: There are project managers and program managers … and then there are mega program managers. These

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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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