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PMOs as profit centres

Project Accelerator News

Subsequently, selected staff are normally transferred to departments with budgets, while others are made redundant. The purpose of this article is to outline how PMOs can be successfully transformed into profit centres during hard economic times. The post PMOs as profit centres appeared first on Project Accelerator News.

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Project Cost Management – The Essential Things to Know and Do

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But there’s little your project sponsor, your client, or their Finance Director care about more than your budget and how closely you can stick to it. Instead, you must act with determination to understand project cost management and implement all the tools at your disposal to control costs and bring in your expenditure on budget.

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PM, CEM, and Covid-19: Reflections

MPUG

For most projects, we undertook massive reactionary workarounds just to move work forward, not to mention operating with a non-functioning budget and dealing with falling mortar rounds. Could it be that human nature is now making many smaller projects fail, and letting larger ones go astronomically over budget? Please chime in below!).

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If It Was My Organization

Agile Coach

What would probably happen: I’d get brought to one of those meetings where the board (or my boss) wants to know where the hell this ‘project augmentation budget’ is going. Free wifi wouldn’t destroy big telecom revenue? I’d give them some of my time regularly. Of course that’s happened! What did you expect?

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Strategy Implementation Needs Great Portfolio Management

Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

In this article I talk about the latest developments in portfolio management, drawing on my own experience as Head of Portfolio Management for three leading multinationals, as well as the dozens of workshops with top executives and senior government officials that I have facilitated around the world. Portfolio Management and Risk Management.

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Insider Perspectives on Recruiting With Ronald Yoon

Project Management Hacks

If you like this article, please write a comment. I have plans for similar interview articles in the future. There are conversations with clients in Finance, Telecom, health sector, Government, IT and engineering. I read articles that is related to new technologies and better project management methodologies.

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What is “Design Thinking” and Why Should I Care?

International Institute for Learning

We don’t have the budget” etc. He served as head of innovation for a Fortune 500 wireless telecom and SVP of innovation for a leading strategy consultancy. And only then, judge them. In boardrooms and hallways all around the world ideas are being spiked down like volleyballs being set, with “we’ve tried that before.” “We