breakout session overview
Competitive success can be attained through a secret formula, a vaunted sales force or hyper-efficient business processes. What is your company’s competitive edge? Is it the PMO?
A highly-evolved PMO can be the competitive advantage needed to take any organization to the next level. The knowledge of both business needs and technology and process capabilities ideally positions the PMO to catapult the organization ahead of the competition by foreseeing valuable information such as emerging technologies and demonstrate how they can be adapted in a new or leading-edge way.
Often, the business approaches the PMO and asks it to
manage a project or implement a solution. In more mature organizations, the
business and PMO work together to develop a solution and plan a project. But
how often does the PMO proactively approach the business with new
opportunities? How often does it
analyze new and emerging technologies and advocate how to apply them to the
business? To win, the PMO must
go beyond partnership with the business to provide insight far beyond
project management.
Technology can almost always do what the business wants – and a great PMO can help the business achieve things it didn’t even know were possible. This presentation will demonstrate how the PMO can serve as the competitive weapon an organization needs to be successful in a global environment.
Paul Risk, PMP,
is currently the Chief Information Officer at AXA Assistance USA and also an
Adjunct Professor of Information Systems at Loyola University of Chicago.
He holds an MS in Computer Engineering and an MBA, both from the
