Strategic PMOs: Process to Value

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A new thought-leadership series from the Project Management Institute seeks to elevate project management offices to a strategic level. A recently released report by the Economist Intelligence Unit kicks off the series, documenting the critical link between projects and strategy.

Program and project management offices have faced a recent identity crisis from the lack of clarity around what a PMO is, what it should be and what they do. PMOs, however, play a crucial role in delivering organizational value.

Project Management Institute’s new thought leadership series on PMOs examines how PMOs can become more strategic, shifting their emphasis from process to value delivery while developing their capabilities accordingly.

This thought leadership series definitively shows that PMOs support the business by helping prioritize issues, identifying potential problems as they emerge, identifying and managing interdependencies, and communicating the right information at the right time, including reporting progress against targets.

Five reports form the basis of this series, beginning with the recently released report by the Economist Intelligence Unit that documents the critical link between projects and strategy. Why Good Strategies Fail: Lessons for the C-Suite used the results of a survey of 587 executives and a series of in-depth interviews with …

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