Next-Gen PMO

  PMO   ProjectsAtWork  

Though project and program management offices continue to be called into question by key stakeholders, the latest ESI International survey identifies the emergence of a “next-generation” PMO.

ESI International recently released the findings of its latest annual benchmarking survey, “The State of the Project Management Office: On the Road to the Next Generation.” The survey, which investigates the current role of the Project/Program Management Office (PMO), its development to full-blown maturity and value for the overall business, reveals the emergence of a new kind of Project/Program Management Office that ESI has identified as the “Next-Gen PMO.”

What is considered a Next-Gen PMO? Based on responses from over 3,000 respondents in more than 17 industries on six continents, ESI’s global survey revealed that Next-Gen PMOs:

• actively engage in helping employees apply what they’ve learned in training back on the job,
• are more business-oriented,
• are considered more developed (so-called “maturity”),
• have a stronger customer focus, and
• are more valued than those that don’t assist in applying training back on the job.

Indian and Chinese organizations, in particular, are well on their way to adopting characteristics of the Next-Gen PMO as reflected in the survey responses.

Even though …

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