That "Vision Thing": VSP's Got It!

October 28, 2011 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

VSP Vision Care® placed as first runner-up in the 2011 PMO of the Year competition, largely because they have shown themselves to be ahead of the curve in solving the "problems of success" and moving their program and portfolio practice to ever-higher levels of sophistication as the company grew.

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PMO of the Year Award Enters Countdown Phase

May 31, 2011 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

For those of our readers who are entering the PMO of the Year Award, May has been a busy time; we hope that last week's deadline extension (to June 10) has allowed you to polish your entry without giving up the holiday weekend. Please remember to check out the Linked In group for PMOY applicants, wh

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Reevaluating "Success"

March 10, 2011 | by J. Kent Crawford

After you've spent a year working on a book, it's great to know people are reading it! We ran across a mention of the new Strategic Project Office, Second Edition on an excellent ZDNet blog by Michael Krigsman. He points out that project failure statistics are misleading and often, downright unhelpf

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Strategy and Projects: Make the Connection!

January 31, 2011 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

You heard it here first: How about a new knowledge area for project management? and the corresponding new section in PMI's PMBOK® Guide? with, naturally, its own section on the PMP exam: "The next 20 questions examine your understanding of how projects create business value for the larger organiza

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PM College Webinar Participants’ Questions Show that Companies are Eager to Implement Competency … and Measure Its Impact

October 8, 2010 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

Because I am already familiar with much of the content presented in our webinar series, it's the interactive portions of the program – the polls and questions from participants – that always hold the most interest for me. The questions posed by participants in last week's PM College webinar were n

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