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Implementing Change Amid a “Perfect Storm” of Changes
In 2012, WellPoint, one of the nation’s largest health benefits companies, serving 67 million people, stood at the center of a “perfect storm” of changes in their markets. A global recession, an aging population of Baby Boomers, and the advent of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) presented the com
Value, and Corporate Values
Johanna Mickel’s blog about a presentation at the Gartner Symposium tied in neatly with a theme that Allen Young had been expanding upon earlier on this blog: that of how you measure the value of project management processes (and of the PMO). To recap, Johanna described Gartner analyst Donna Fitz
Managing Change, Realizing Value Take Center Stage at Gartner
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
Establish PMO Value Metrics Without Delay!
This blog was updated in May 2025. One of the issues that surfaced in the newly-released State of the PMO 2014 research study was that PMOs have a public relations problem: they are delivering value (significant value: see the graphic from the study at right), but they have trouble communicating th
Updated Study Shows Steady Growth in PMO Influence and Capabilities
The fourth iteration of our biennial study on The State of the PMO was released last week. The data holds few surprises, but confirms that the PMO as an organizational resource continues to grow in capability and influence. In particular, it's always interesting to note how PMOs in high-performing