The Winners' Circle: 2011 PMO of the Year Announced

September 14, 2011 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

It's official: The Dell Services Healthcare and Life Sciences PMO is our 2011 PMO of the Year! Joining them in the winners' circle are the top three finalists: VSP Vision Care Enterprise Project Solutions California Technology Agency Program Management Office Nationwide Insurance Enterp

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Texas Health PMO: The Value Realization Office

September 9, 2011 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

PMO of the Year semifinalist Texas Health has a way with words. Their uniquely (and precisely) named Portfolio & Project Management Office (PPMO) resides within a department called the Value Realization Group. Wow. I think it would be good for every business to have a department dedicated to "

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Community and Communication: How Edison SmartConnect Excels

August 1, 2011 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

Southern California Edison's SmartConnect PMO has placed among the semifinalists in the PMO of the Year competition for two years running (I can think of only one company that has done this in the history of the award: The National Council on Compensation Insurance in 2007 and 2008). I took a closer

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PMO of the Year Award Semifinalists Announced

July 14, 2011 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

Whew, that was a close one. Many close ones, in fact. The field of 33 entries in this year's PMO of the Year Award competition was amazing. I wish our confidentiality rules did not preclude my naming all those who entered. From the Middle East and Africa, and across Canada and the US, we gathered

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"PM Is In the Culture Development Business" Says Tom Peters

July 1, 2011 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

Our Director of Client Relations, Johanna Mickel (pictured below) kindly sent me her notes from the speech by Tom Peters that rounded out last week's Gartner Summit ... and I was pleased to find that Peters -- despite keynoting back-to-back conferences on the technical aspects of PPM, governance and

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