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What He Said: Rules of Engagement, from the Mayo Clinic CRM PMO - The View from PMI Part 2
This blog was updated July 2025. My top feel-good session at this year’s PMI Global Conference was a case study of the Mayo Clinic’s PMO at their Center for Regenerative Medicine. Not only is the visionary work of the CRM inspiring, but I was impressed by the PMO leader, Wale Elegbede, PMP. When he
PPM: The Nexus of Benefits, Resource and Strategy Management ... The View from PMI, Part 1
When I arrived at the PMI Global Congress in Los Angeles last Saturday, I was sure my own presentation on our Strategy Execution Process Benchmark was 100% ready to present on Monday. Ha! Silly me. With each session I attended, my speaker's notes expanded, filling the margins with footnotes and addi
The Long View from Far Away
Sometimes you have to get a little distance from familiar things to see them in perspective. I experienced this in September during a three-week break, out of the country, away from it all, and on a bit of an enforced “device fast” with no wifi or mobile data. In a brief airport interlude,
Pop Quiz: How Would You Invest $1000?
An article in The Economist caught my attention with the headline “Time to get in training: Companies must overcome skill shortages.” The author notes that the amount American companies are spending on training jumped last year by almost a third, to the equivalent of $1000 for every staff member wh
A Sneak Preview of The Adaptive Organization
We've just finish crunching the numbers from our newest research study, The Adaptive Organization: A Benchmark of the Changing Approaches to Project Management and while it will be a few more weeks before the final report is released, I thought I'd share a few statistics that I find particularly com