Often the people who comment on my posts bring tremendous insights into how project management offices (PMOs) are deployed. Commenting on “Execution Is the Only Strategy That Customers See“, Lisa Koslow at koslowmarketing.com discussed how companies in the consumer packaged goods area focus on project management:
Lisa- Completely agree, that a poorly executed strategy is doomed […]
Continuing from yesterday’s post , another great point made in David Brumby’s Computerworld article “Risks Pay Off in Brand Building ” relates to how we evaluate projects. Clearly, he makes the point that financial criteria can hurt innovation; a better approach is to evaluate how a project contributes to strategies:
“Some of the most innovative ideas […]
You may know by now that I am not a fan of increasing the CIOs role. Rather I see tremendous value in centralizing non-IT executive control of projects (IT and non-IT) supported by a PMO-like organization. Even so, I’m am NOT saying I’m against CIO role improvement; what I am saying is that other […]
Following up on Margaret Rouse’s post on my Choosing the Right PMO Vision Series, today we deal with the mythical queue:
Margaret: You really got me thinking. I think what REALLY blew me away was when you said that 74% of all projects fail — and that the number could be even higher for IT projects. […]
Margaret Rouse blogs at IT Knowledge Exchange on an amazing variety of topics. Read it and be informed! I find some of the most interesting blog commentors are IT people who engage with me about innovative project management processes- clearly they are making an effort to bring IT and the user together. Her post about […]
My recent attempt at developing a compelling marketing offer for a PMO consultancy revealed that this process is not a one-time effort. It is a continuous improvement process that is truly an on-going project. In my role as Director Sales and Marketing I introduced the concept to the owner of the consulting company. We agreed that […]
I’ve mentioned an on-going marketing project for advanced PMOs in my “Vision Beyond the Vision” post in the “Choosing the Right PMO Vision” series; this project is developing, and continuously improving, a compelling marketing offer. The way to view this is to ask your customers what they hate about dealing with the industry you are in- NOT […]
Fascinating project with remarkable results! My fellow business bloggers and I at b5media took a shot at responding to a marketing challenge for a small business. We discovered that yes you can solve a problem among twenty people emailing each other. Interestingly, I think that our blogging experience had a lot to do with our […]
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