by PMO Advisory | Sep 5, 2014 | Strategic Business Execution
According to PMI’s recent research, the most common strategy approach PMOs take today is insufficient for today’s hyper competitive market. The increased pace of change within business environments over the years has rendered most typical PMOs out of touch. Market...
by PMO Advisory | Jun 16, 2014 | Leadership, Management
Recently, I had a negative experience with one of my favorite cloud services – Dropbox. Dropbox is one of the most mature of the cloud storage services, and the apps are on every platform I can think of. It is also pre-integrated with many if not most of the...
by PMO Advisory | Jun 10, 2014 | Career Development, PfMP
I was at a marketing conference this week, and someone asked me about my certifications. Are they worth it? This got me thinking and now writing. First, some background: I have three certifications from Project Management Institute (PMI). They are Portfolio, Program,...
by PMO Advisory | Jun 2, 2014 | Management
Some say management is a science because like other scientific pursuits, there are predictable patterns that we can see, touch, and feel. Perhaps most important of all, it can be proven wrong – which is the hallmark of science. Like finding the nth digit to the...
by PMO Advisory | Apr 14, 2014 | Strategic Business Execution
Product quality affects consumers spending patterns. Therefore an organization-wide effort needs to be made in order to deliver great products/customer experiences and gain a competitive advantage. Most often the customers do not care how organizations coordinate...
by PMO Advisory | Apr 8, 2014 | PMO
According to PMI 2012 research, it has been revealed that PMOs are having an identity crisis. There is a struggle to define their organizational role and showing their value. This problem is noted in “Transforming the Program Management Office into a Results...
by PMO Advisory | Mar 31, 2014 | PMO, Strategic Business Execution
Due to changes in the business environment, PMOs have had to change their approach to strategy. According to Forrester research, the more agile companies who have been successful despite the changes in the environment have charged their PMOs with strategy...
by PMO Advisory | Mar 24, 2014 | Strategic Business Execution
The majority of executives agree about the relevance of strategy implementation despite the fact that most of them struggle with transition from ‘conception to birth’. PMI’s 2014 Pulse of the Profession research revealed that organizations’ actual state were far from...
by PMO Advisory | Mar 17, 2014 | Leadership, Management
Cases proving the value of in-house critics, dissenters and whistle blowers demonstrate that “groupidity”, a special form of groupthink wherein we collectively become willing to take risks we individually recognize as stupid, is alive and well. Since most new ideas...
by PMO Advisory | Mar 10, 2014 | Management
Despite the importance of strategic planning in business, most executives fear this process because they think failure will ruin their career. As a result, they construct a time-consuming comprehensive plan to govern the business’ activities. Unfortunately, this...
