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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...

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Some Applause, Please!

December 31, 2013 | by Allen Young

When I initially received a PDF draft copy of PMI’s “Managing Change in Organizations: A Practice Guide,” the first thing I did was cry out “It’s about time!” The concept of organizational change management (OCM) has been around for quite a while now and over the last...

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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 and project leaders grasp...

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PMO Symposium Attendees Agree: Organizational Change is the Big Threat/Opportunity for PMOs

November 13, 2013 | by Johanna Mickel

I used to think "disruptive" was a bad word.But Kent Crawford set me straight yesterday during his presentation at the PMO Symposium, titled "The Disruptive PMO: Change, Innovate and Lead." It's not just that new technology can be disruptive, as discussed on the Forrester blog, but that disruptive innovations require a rethinking of...

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Canada Health Infoway Portfolio Management Office Takes Top Honor at 2013 PMO Symposium

November 11, 2013 | by Johanna Mickel

San Diego -  At Monday morning's PMO of the Year Award presentation, Rose Ann Radosevic accepted the 2013 award on behalf of her organization, the Canada Health Infoway Portfolio Management Office (see profile interview here). The award was presented by PMI CEO Mark Langley and PM Solutions CEO J. Kent Crawford during an event...

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