Pinnacle Insights

The role of a Project Management Office (PMO) differs greatly across industries and companies; there is no standard PMO model for ensuring success.  The most effective PMO structure closely supports a company’s corporate culture, its’ business needs and current Project Management capabilities.  This means that a Project Management Office must evolve along with its’ customers need and capabilities.

The area of Enterprise Risk Management is different from Risk Management in Projects and Programs.  It deals with the management of threats and opportunities to an entire Organization and is increasingly used in the Public and Private sector at both Operational and Strategic levels.

We have helped dozens of organizations evaluate project management software and implement it for various purposes.  Additionally, we are often called in to fix an unsuccessful implementation and get to observe what worked and what didn’t.

Virtually no one in the Project Management space addresses the real challenge in implementing Enterprise Project Management systems… Adoption.  There are some practitioners who talk about cultural change, but they tend to have a narrow focus on getting executive sponsorship.  This sponsorship is essential but in no way guarantees success.

There is no consistent approach to, or definition of, Enterprise Project Management (EPM). It is critical to define early on what your specific goals for EPM are.