IBM Wins PMO of the Year Award

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Project Management Center of Excellence serves as change agent in a global corporate initiative that leads to “dramatic, sustained project management success worldwide.”

PM Solutions and the Project Management Institute’s Program Management Office Specific Interest Group have selected IBM’s Project Management Center of Excellence as the 2010 PMO of the Year. The annual award specifically recognizes the IBM group for “creating global project management standards and enterprise-wide consistency among its 26,000 project managers worldwide; establishing a dedicated project management knowledge repository and communications network; increasing project accountability; improving time-to-market by 65 percent; and decreasing the number of troubled projects by 25 percent.”

IBM’s Center of Excellence was selected from a field of more than 40 applicants from nearly every continent and including state and federal agencies, major nonprofit organizations and Fortune 1000 companies. The finalists included The Doe Run Company’s Enterprise PMO in St. Louis, Missouri; Auckland City Council’s Program Office in Auckland, New Zealand; and T-Mobile USA’s Enterprise Program Office in Bellevue, Washington.

“All of this year’s award applicants are excellent examples of the incredible impact a mature PMO can make on an organization …

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