Nationwide Insurance: Centralized IT Project Management Scores Big

October 13, 2011 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

Sometimes you can have too much of a good thing. Nationwide Insurance's IT function found that, while a PMO can improve project delivery, ten or more PMOs scattered across the enterprise, with over 300 project managers all pursuing projects in different ways, led to inefficiencies. The improveme

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The Inside Look: Don't Miss It

September 24, 2011 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

Just a week or so before our new book, An Inside Look at High-Performing PMOs, hits the shelves - literally and virutally - at Amazon.com. We are excited to share a compendium of practices from the best PMOs in the business, and to kick off the book release, J. Kent Crawford will be leading a free w

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The Winners' Circle: 2011 PMO of the Year Announced

September 14, 2011 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

It's official: The Dell Services Healthcare and Life Sciences PMO is our 2011 PMO of the Year! Joining them in the winners' circle are the top three finalists: VSP Vision Care Enterprise Project Solutions California Technology Agency Program Management Office Nationwide Insurance Enterp

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Texas Health PMO: The Value Realization Office

September 9, 2011 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

PMO of the Year semifinalist Texas Health has a way with words. Their uniquely (and precisely) named Portfolio & Project Management Office (PPMO) resides within a department called the Value Realization Group. Wow. I think it would be good for every business to have a department dedicated to "

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Community and Communication: How Edison SmartConnect Excels

August 1, 2011 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

Southern California Edison's SmartConnect PMO has placed among the semifinalists in the PMO of the Year competition for two years running (I can think of only one company that has done this in the history of the award: The National Council on Compensation Insurance in 2007 and 2008). I took a closer

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