The success of any implementation is never guaranteed: challenges seem to lurk around every corner. However, as indicated in a previous blog (Structuring a Global Implementation), there are ways to anticipate and address these challenges before they materialize.
A Project Management Office (PMO) is a group within an organization that defines and maintains standards for project management. A PMO generally bases its project management principles, practices, and processes on some industry standard methodology such as PMBOK.
You are implementing Primavera P6 and have determined that the delivered reporting tools are not up to snuff. Before you go out and buy a new report-writing tool, take a step back and look in your enterprise toolbox. You might find you already have a tool that fits the bill.
A global implementation aims to have a structured, streamlined process that seamlessly incorporates local requirements across lines of business. Companies usually create a global template that is rolled out at every site. Business Process re-engineering must be done across all sites to standardize the processes per the global template.
The obvious benefit of PPM is that it gives executives a bird's-eye view of projects so they can spot redundancies, spread resources appropriately and closely monitor progress. PPM is a continuous loop of communication that allows an organization to collaboratively plan and evaluate projects.
To accomplish a successful business transformation project, experience drawn from numerous projects over the years has shown a pattern worth incorporating into every project. Successful projects establish a program framework and implementation approach.
As your organization prepares to spend significant money on new tools to help you better manage projects, how prepared are you to achieve a return on this investment? Continue reading the blog to learn more about professional services automation (PSA):
In general, the Engineering, Procure, and Construct (EPC) industry has struggled for years to find solutions that would enable integrated operations across the enterprise. With the evolution of ERP systems, the major EPC players have started to see solutions.
Large project-based organizations are working in a multinational, multi-currency environment struggle with how best to deal with currency issues when managing projects and reporting project and organization financial performance. Continue reading the blog to learn more about considerations:
Organizations that manage by project collect labor costs against projects via timecards. These organizations struggle with the rules/validations that need to be applied to this time collection process based on the following competing business requirements. Continue reading to learn more:
