2014 State of the PMO Closes March 4

March 3, 2014 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

Since 2008, PM Solutions Research has been keeping tabs on developments in organization design for project management. The State of the PMO studies, carried out every two years, have helped countless companies and practitioners understand and work with trends and challenges as PMOs have come into pl

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OCM, The People Side: Leverage the Champions of Change

February 19, 2014 | by Allen Young

Continuing to flesh out the areas I’d like to see expanded on in any OCM model, let’s take a look at how the PMO and its people contribute to—or impede—an organization’s “change-ability.” According to PM Solutions’ own research, the majority of firms already have a PMO of some sort in place, and t

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Four Rules to Change By

January 21, 2014 | by Allen Young

Continuing my “wish list” of issues I would like to see covered in more depth in PMI’s new Practice Standard for Change Management (see the first post in the series here), today I’m giving a quick overview of the four top issues that Organizational Change Management practitioners encounter. (If you

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Selling the Value of Project Management: Daniel Pink on How to "Persuade, Convince and Influence"

November 14, 2013 | by Johanna Mickel

Daniel Pink, author of To Sell is Human – The Surprising Truth about Moving Others, closed the PMO Symposium yesterday with a keynote that was right up my alley. Naturally, working in business development, I have always believed that business is selling your ideas to others … and if project managers

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Finalist Profile: Beyond 2018, Bentley Motors’ Strategy is in Capable Hands

November 4, 2013 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

The top three finalists have been named in the 2013 PMO of the Year Award! We will be profiling these finalists (in alpha order) this week. Come to the PMO Symposium to attend the award ceremony and discover the winner and runners-up. Or stay tuned for the news to be released the week of Nov. 11th.

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