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Aligning the PMO with organizational goals

Aligning the PMO with organizational goals

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Aligning the PMO with organizational goals

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- Did you know that a whopping 59% of organizations struggle to implement their strategic initiatives? In order to disrupt your market or simply to remain competitive, your organization must be able to implement a strategies. That's why it's critical to expand the role of your PMO as a strategic entity within your company. Let's take a deeper look. Here's an organization. Let's call it Red30 Tech, generally designs and implement strategy unsuccessfully. The executives develop the strategy using market indicators and research. Then they divide up the strategy into various projects and ask their teams to execute. A set of people is creating the strategy, a different set is executing it and there's no information on project management, realities and challenges flowing between the two groups. At Red30 Tech, PMOs are clearly not considered as a strategic unit and project management is viewed merely as an administrative…

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