The Strategic Project Office: The Organizational Central Nervous System

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Let's  start by investigating your situation. (1) Are you overworked? (2) Are your efforts diverted on many projects? (3) Do you feel you are losing focus on the corporate vision and goals? (4) Are you managing risks adequately? (5) Are there too many projects in the pipeline? (6) Are you putting your efforts in the right place and at the right time? (7) Are your projects running over budget? (8) Are your projects generating the expected benefits? (9) Do you find yourself putting out fires and cutting costs that prevent proactive planning? (10) Do you have the team with the skills and competencies to deliver? (11) Are you supported by methods and tools that improve your capability to deliver? (12) Are you delivering quality? (13) Are there other people working on similar initiatives elsewhere in your organization or have there been similar initiatives in the past that can help you now?

These are some of the questions that may be posed to identify the symptoms of organizations that have weakened the control and lost the pulse of their vital functions (i.e., people, effort, time, and money). Setting up a strategic project office is one way to avoid further degradation and provide a cure for the disconnect between reality and the capability to deliver.

The Strategic Project Office—The Central Nervous System of the Organization

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